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Col. H. B. Titus. 



TO the: MiKMlORY 



OF 



GEORGE HENBY C HAND LEE, 

late of concord, 
Adjutant and Major 



OF THE 



NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. 

THIS VOLUME 



IS 



LOVINGLY AND RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED 



BY THE 



SURVIVORS OF HIS REGIMENT. 



e 






COMMITTEE ON PUBLICATION. 



C. D. Copp, Chairman. 



C. VV. Wilcox, Secretary. 

E. C. Babb. 

J. W. Babbitt. 

J. B. Cooper. 

N. T. Button. 

C. W. Edgerly. 

A. P. HORNE. 

A. J. Hough. 



C. M. Blaisdell, Treasurer. 
J. E. Mason. 
W. P. Moses. 

L. H. PiLLSBURY. 

O. D. Robinson. 
H. B. Titus. 
G. L. Wakefield. 
S. A. Whitfield. 



sub-committee on printing. 

C. M. Blaisdell, Chairman. 
G. L. Wakefield, Secretary. C. W. Wilcox, Treasurer. 



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CONTENTS. 



[For " Complete Roster of Ninth Regiment, N. H. V.," " Service of 
Members of Ninth Regiment in Other Organizations," " General Order 
Transferring Members of Ninth Regiment to Sixth N. H. Vet. Volun- 
teers," " Register of Commissioned Officers, Ninth Regiment," " Regi- 
mental Association," "List of Illustrations," and "General Index," 
see Appendix.] 

Page 
Introduction ........ vii 

CHAPTER I. 
The Ninth at Camp Colby ..... 1-18 

CHAPTER H. 

From Concord to South Mountain . . . 19-59 

CHAPTER in. 
The Battle of South Mountain .... 60-87 

CHAPTER IV. 
The Battle at Antietam Creek . . . 88-140 

CHAPTER V. 

From Antietam to Fredericksburg . . 141- 180 

CHAPTER VI. 
Fredericksburg ....... 181-232 

CHAPTER VII. 
Closing up the Year ..... 233-254 

CHAPTER VIII. 

Falmouth, Newport News, and Kentucky . 255-281 

CHAPTER IX. 

The Mississippi Campaign .... 282-316 

1* 



VI CONTENTS. 

CHAPTER X. 
The Movement from Kentucky to Annapolis, 

AND AS FAR AS BrISTOW STATION . . 317-355 

CHAPTER XI. 

The Wilderness and Spottsvlvania Court- 
house 356-402 

CHAPTER XH. 
From the North Anna to Petersburg . . 403-442 

CHAPTER Xni. 

From the Investure of Petersburg to the 

Explosion of the Mine .... 443-481 

CHAPTER XIV. 
The Battle of the Crater .... 482-512 

CHAPTER XV. 

Shifting Scenes and Varying Fortunes . . 513-539 

CHAPTER XVI. 
The Downfall of the Confederacy . . 540-561 

CHAPTER XVII. 

Prisoners-of-War at Macon and Savannah, 
Georgia, and Charleston and Columbia, 
South Carolina 562-613 

CHAPTER XVIII. 

Prisoners-of-War in Salisbury, Andersonville, 

Florence, and Belle Isle 614-627 

CHAPTER XIX. 

Regimental Hospitals — The Brigade Band . 628-654 

CHAPTER XX. 
Biographical Sketches 655-761 



INTRODUCTION. 



The survivors of the Ninth New Hampshire volunteers have 
experienced unusual difficulties in the preparation of their regi- 
mental history. Soon after the Rebellion it was the unanimous 
desire that such a volume should be compiled by George H. 
Chandler, but his death, August 12, 1883, prevented the fulfil- 
ment of this hope. By that unfortunate event his comrades 
were deprived of the story which might have been told so well 
by their former major, a man of quick parts and of pre-eminent 
ability in military and civil life. They did not, however, aban- 
don the enterprise, and John E. Mason, first lieutenant of Com- 
pany D, was chosen historian in due time. He had made some 
progress, when in August, 1891, Herbert B. Titus was associ- 
ated with him; but Death, intervening a second time, March 5, 
1892, called away the lieutenant, and left to the associate the 
accomplishment of the unfinished task. 

Comrade Titus had been colonel of the regiment during most 
of its service, and was, therefore, peculiarly qualified to meet 
the added responsibility. He bent to the work all his energies, 
including a remarkable genius for historical research. Regimen- 
tal, company, and personal documents were collected, as well 
as those general and special orders of commanders of armies, 
corps, divisions, and brigades, pertaining to the campaigns in 
which the Ninth participated ; diaries, letters, and monographs 
were obtained ; there were meetings of comrades at various 



Vlll INTRODUCTION. 

points, at which questions put by the historian and answered 
by one or more of the others present were reported stenograph- 
ically — in short, multiform material was gathered from every 
possible source, and from this extracts were made and classified 
chronologically. With these extracts as a basis, Colonel Titus 
began writing, and had furnished some seventy pages of type- 
written manuscript when his health was found to be so im- 
paired that a continuation of the close application necessary to 
complete the history might injure it permanently ; so, in March, 
1894, the responsibility of preparing an accurate and complete 
record of the regiment was transferred to the present editor, 
through whose instrumentality the consummation of a long 
deferred hope is presented in the history now published. 

"The end crowns the work," but this never would have been 
attained had it not been for the patient and never-tiring interest 
manifested by the comrades of the regiment. They have 
responded generously to all requests of the publishing commit- 
tee, and have volunteered much valuable information. The 
work of this committee, too, is remarkable. Undismayed by 
frequent discouragements, its members have been both persist- 
ent and prudent. They had high aims, and took effective 
measures to attain them. Their first circular is an evidence of 
this, and its exact text should be preserved. It reads as fol- 
lows : 

To THE Comrades of the Ninth Regiment of New Hampshire 
Volunteers : 

In connection with our Regimental History, now in course of prepa- 
ration, it is important to have the post-office address of all the living 
members of the regiment. It is also very desirable to have the name 
and address of the widow, child, or other near relative or friend, of 
those who died from any cause while in the service, or since their 
discharge therefrom. With this object in view, and for the informa- 
tion of the comrades of the regiment, as well as for convenient refer- 



INTRODUCTION. ix 

ence, the secretary of the committee on the history prepared and 
printed a list, arranged by companies, of all those whose addresses he 
had been able to ascertain from any source. Upon consultation, how- 
ever, with other members of the committee, it was thought advisable, 
for historical purposes, to add the designation of rank, and also to 
make the list a complete roster of the regiment, except deserters, with 
the additional names so arranged under descriptive headings as to more 
readily suggest, and aid in obtaining, the information desired. It is 
therefore requested of every comrade who shall receive or see this list, 
that he note any error or omission in the name, address, company, or 
classification of any comrade ; the death of any one not mentioned, 
and the name and address, if known, of some relative or friend of 
those who died in the service, or since their discharge, who may 
be interested in the history of their soldier lives, or of the regiment in 
which they served ; that he make every reasonable effort to complete 
the list of addresses, not only of the living, but of friends of the dead ; 
and that he communicate the information or correction to the secre- 
tary, or to some member of the committee. 

The committee are as follows: C. D. Copp, chairman, C. W. Wil- 
cox, secretary, C. M. Blaisdell, treasurer, J. B. Cooper, J. W. Bab- 
bitt, A. J. Hough, William P. Moses, O. D. Robinson, Leonard H. 
Pillsbury, A. P. Home, E. C. Babb, S. A. Whitfield, C. W. Edg- 
erly, H. B. Titus, and J. E. Mason, secretary of the regimental asso- 
ciation. [George L. Wakefield and Newell T. Dutton were added to 
the committee later.] 

In thus printing and giving out this roster the comnjittee have 
another object in view. It is their earnest desire to present a full and 
truthful history of the regiment, and in a manner that shall be worthy 
of the men who made it, but the material and data which they have so 
far been able to collect they find to be entirely insufficient for the pur- 
pose. They are not satisfied merely to give a general statement of the 
formation of the regiment, its marches, its camps, its bivouacs, and 
its battles, with the number and names of the killed, wounded, and 
missing, and such facts and incidents as may be within their own per- 
sonal knowledge and recollection. The true history of a regiment is 
the sum of hundreds of individual histories, each of which is the story 
and the sum of the scenes, incidents, and experiences of one soldier's 
daily life. What the committee need, to complete the history, are the 
stories of the men who made that history, — what they themselves saw 
and thought and did, as they now remember and tell it, and particu- 
larly as they then wrote it in letters home, for, as a rule, what the 



X INTRODUCTION. 

soldier wrote in his letters is of as much, or even more, value for the 
purposes of history, than what he wrote in a diary. 

It is intended that for this regiment the coming reunion at Weirs 
shall be, as far as practicable, a working week. There are errors, 
omissions, and discrepancies in the regimental records to be corrected 
and straightened out for a complete and accurate final roster. The 
committee will meet there previous to the reunion, and remain as long 
as may be necessary. They will have a stenographer to note down 
facts, scenes, and incidents which go to make up our regimental his- 
tory, as comrades may relate them. So come to the reunion; come 
early, and prepared, if need be, to stay late. Brighten up your recol- 
lection, and bring your old army letters and diaries if you have them, 
and those of any other comrade who cannot be present, and so now 
help to record the history which you once helped to make. If then it 
is not fully and truthfully recorded the fault will not lie with those who 
have undertaken the laborious task. 

While it is expected that every officer of the regiment now living, 
and the friends of those who are dead, will furnish a photograph for a 
picture to be inserted in the history, this privilege is by no means con- 
fined to the officers, but is extended equally to all, irrespective of 
rank. Specimens of different styles can be seen at the reunion, or 
information will be furnished on request. 

Charles W. Wilcox, 

Secretary Comtiiittee on History. 
Milford, Mass., July 25, 1891. 



Accompanying the above circular was the roster referred to 
therein. Other supplementary circulars were sent out as re- 
quired. 

The general committee named in the circular confined its 
efforts to obtaining the material and supervising the compila- 
tion of the history. The numberless details of printing and pub- 
lishing were entrusted to a sub-committee plenipotentiary, con- 
sisting of C. M. Blaisdell, chairman, G. L. Wakefield, secretary, 
and C. W. Wilcox, treasurer. A special committee on the 
revision of the editor's manuscript was appointed in June, 1894. 
Its members were H. B. Titus, O. D. Robinson, N. T. Button, 



INTRO D UC TION. XI 

C. D. Copp, W. P. Moses, on the part of the regiment, and 
A. D. Ayling, adjutant-general, on the part of the state. 

Each member of each one of these committees performed his 
duties faithfully, and to the satisfaction of all concerned, but 
thanks are particularly due, and are hereby given, to Gen. A. D. 
Ayling, for his careful reading of the manuscript history, and for 
his pertinent suggestions relating thereto. Special acknowledg- 
ments should also be made to O. D. Robinson, who generously 
placed at the disposal of the publishing committee an invalu- 
able collection of manuscripts and prints, including many of his 
own contributions to the newspaper literature of the Civil War 
period, as well as the orations and other scholarly efforts of his 
later years referring to the same period, from which collection 
the editor has made selections without stint ; to F. J. Burnham 
for a monograph of his adventures, compiled from his diaries 
and private letters ; to N. T. Button for his careful comparison 
of the narrative with his very complete diaries ; to the letters 
and diaries of G. H. Chandler, C. W. Wilcox, J. W. Lathe, Orville 
Smith, S. J. Alexander, C. D. Copp, W. I. Brown, W. P. Moses, 
and others, whence many of the descriptions of scenes and 
incidents have been derived ; to many comrades for their writ- 
ten anecdotes ; to C. W. Wilcox, Wm. McGarrett, A. P. Home, 
and J. F. Foster, for their contributions relating to Confederate 
prisons ; to J. B. Bailey for his narration of the experiences 
of the regimental band ; to United States Senator Wm. E. Chand- 
ler for copies of war department documents, and for many 
other services rendered, and to Vice-President Wm. D. Chand- 
ler and Business Manager E. N. Pearson of the Republican 
Press Association for their uniform kindness and courtesy dur- 
ing the process of printing. 

To Messrs. Blaisdell, Wakefield, and Wilcox, of the sub-com- 
mittee on printing and publishing ; to Rev. N. T. Button, of 



Xll INTRODUCTION. 

Fairfield, Me. ; to Hon. E. C. Babb, of Minneapolis, Minn. ; to 
Albert P. Davis, of Concord: to the Rev. E. M. Gushee, of 
Cambridge, Mass., and to others, who though nameless here 
are not forgotten, the editor tenders his sincere thanks for prof- 
itable suggestions and friendly criticisms. 

Edward O. Lord. 
Concord, N. H., October lo, 1895. 



HISTORY 



OF THE 



Ninth Regiment New Hampshire 
Volunteers. 



CHAPTER I. 
The Ninth at Camp Colby. 

"At length we are in peace, God be praised ! and 
long, very long may it last. All wars are follies — very 
expensive and very mischievous ones." Thus wrote the 
Philadelphia sage, at the close of the Revolutionary 
War, and looking back over the Civil War, who but 
will echo his sentiments? The war was; and when the 
descendants of those who participated in its triumphs and 
its defeats, its joys and its sorrows, shall ask why and 
for what this war was waged, it is to the history of those 
stirring times that they will turn in their search for infor- 
mation regarding what that peace-loving Quaker, John 
Bright, described as the only righteous war of modern 
times. It must needs be a righteous cause that would 
iustify the arraying of brother against brother in deadly 
strife ! Side by side the North and the South had fought 
to secure and maintain the independence of the United 
States, but from 1861 to 1865 they were in fierce conflict 
one with the other ; and for what cause? 

Forgetting that 

" The love of liberty with life is given," 



2 NINTH KEW HAMPSHIRE. [1861. 

the South was holding in the bonds of slavery, with all 
its attendant e\'ils, more than 4,000,000 people, denying 
to them, because God had seen fit to create them black 
instead of white, that liberty which is dearer than life 
itself. This growing evil of slavery, which threatened 
to spread its serpent trail over all the land, was the real 
source of the trouble between the North and the South ; 
but the events which precipitated the war itself, were 
the secession of the Southern states and the bombard- 
ment of Fort Sumter. 

As suddenly, as swiftly, and as terribly as the cyclone 
sweeps over the smiling country, leaving death and deso- 
lation behind, did this open rebellion and its consequences 
come upon the nation. Though for years warnings had 
been sounded from pulpit and platform and press, still 
the people refused to believe. War had become to 
them but a name. That it could become a reality, and 
in their midst, seemed impossible. The booming of 
cannon and the crash of the falling walls of Sumter 
brought a fearful awakening. The emergency was great, 
and must be promptly and wisely met ; the Union must 
be preserved ; — but no one even dreamed how terrible a 
sacrifice of precious human lives was to be laid on the 
country's altar in expiation for the injustice done the 
African negro. 

To whom could the country look in her hour of peril? 
Whose hand could guide the ship of state through the 
treacherous shoals of treason and internecine hatred ? 
Fortunate was it that the administration had passed into 
the hands of one who was able and willing to do his 
duty, even to his last breath ; whose shoulders would not 
shrink from the Herculean task imposed upon them, — 
the revered and martyred Abraham Lincoln. His elec- 



jggj-, AT CAMP COLBY. 3 

tion had been looked upon by the Southerners as mark- 
ing the Hmit of their forbearance ; they fully understood 
that with him there would be no winking at doubtful 
proceedings, and from secret plotting they advanced to 
open rebellion. And in a way there was reason for 
their madness. In his last annual message President 
Buchanan, after stating the causes the South had for ill- 
feehng against the North and for demanding the repeal 
of the Personal Liberty acts, said,— 

"The Southern states, standing on the basis of the 
Constitution, have a right to demand this act of justice 
from the North. Should it be refused, then the Consti- 
tution, to which all the states are parties, will have been 
wilfully violated by one portion of them in a provision 
essential to the domestic security and happiness of the 
remainder. In that event, the injured states, after hav- 
ing first used all peaceful and constitutional means to 
obtain redress, would he justified in revolutionary resist- 



ance.''^ 



Such words as these, from the highest executive in the 
land, were like fire to the torch. Such was the crowning 
act of the Buchanan administration. Says the Comte de 

Paris, — 

"The end of his [President Buchanan's] administra- 
tion had been disastrous. He had tolerated everything : 
he had done nothing to crush out the Rebellion in its 
inception, and had left his successor without the means 
of fulfilling the task entrusted to him. He deHvered into 
his hands the government of a shattered country ; and if 
civil war had not yet drenched America in blood, it was 
simply because the Rebellion was being organized with 

impunity on its soil." 

It was under these hampering conditions that President 



4 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [i86r 

Lincoln entered upon his life work. That he overcame 
those conditions and nobly fulfilled his trust, a grateful 
country can never forget. His memory is enshrined in 
the hearts of the people. 

The history of those four years of fire and blood has 
been told again and again, and from as many stand- 
points ; and yet we can never know it all — those personal 
incidents, so numerous and so interesting, but so few of 
which have been preserved ; so worthy to be recorded, 
" if only they could be recovered from the storehouse of 
memory ; " while down in the sunn}'^ Southland lie thou- 
sands of heroes, the story of whose sufferings is buried 
with them. 

The war was full of dramatic incidents — every war is, — 
and from the time when the universal thrill of awakened 
patriotism went through all the land to the smallest ham- 
let and remotest farm, when war meetings were held 
in town halls and village churches and district school- 
houses, when there was a great uprising, as of one man, 
for the defence of the Union, and the troops marched 
away ; — all through those four long years, when the 
wearisome waiting for news from camp and field and 
hospital, their hopes and fears, joys and sorrows, kept 
the whole people tense, eager, and expectant, to the 
days when the veterans brought home their tattered and 
battle-stained flags with high and honorable pride, tem- 
pered with sadness when they remembered those who 
were left behind, and were mustered out, there were 
lights and shadows visible only to those who shared the 
daily life of the soldier, pathetic bits of human nature 
real only to those who enacted the scenes. Great his- 
tories of the war cannot deal with these details, yet to the 
soldier and his friends there is nothing so interesting as 



i86i.] AT CAMP COLBY. 5 

the portrayal of the events in which he bore a part, or a 
sketch of life in camp or field which he recognizes as 
a bit of his own experience. 

The history of the Ninth New Hampshire volunteers 
is only one of hundreds, and yet with loving care would 
we gather up and preserve for coming generations every 
detail of the story of those four years of sacrifice. Organ- 
ized at a period when the first wave of enthusiasm had 
subsided, when there was little or nothing except love of 
country to induce enlistment, and when there was plenty 
of work at good wages, a better class of men than entered 
the ranks of the Ninth at that period of its history would 
be hard to find. They were largely sons of farmers, 
and mechanics from the rural towns and cities, students 
who had laid aside the pen for the sword, — young 
men who would do honor to their native state either on 
the battle-field or in the peaceful pursuits of home life ; 
men of whom it was said after their second battle — on 
the bloody field of Antietam — " they behaved admirably, 
more like veteran soldiers than inexperienced recruits." 
They were the men who brought home colors that were 
torn and stained, and who could point proudly to the 
inscriptions which told of the fields on which they had 
won their honors. They entered the ranks as inexpe- 
rienced men : they came home veteran soldiers, the kind 
of whom it has been well said, — 

" How is a soldier made? Whence comes the soldier 
of a man? A lad taken out of your street, dressed in a 
soldier's uniform, fed on a soldier's rations, carrying a 
soldier's weapon, and marching to a soldier's music, is 
not a soldier ; he is only a lad clothed, fed, armed, and 
marched like a soldier. But the soldier in a man is gen- 
erated by fiercer processes : it is worried in by long 



6 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [June, 

marches, it is pressed in by long watches on the picket 
line, it is filtered in by the dews of night, it is washed in 
by the rains of heaven, it is starved in by half a biscuit 
a day, it is baked in by the fever in the hospital cot, it is 
blown in by shot and shell, it is thrust in by sabre and 
bayonet — that is where the soldier comes from." 

The Ninth regiment was the first one organized and 
sent to the front in 1862, the Seventh and Eighth having 
been mustered in during the latter part of December, 
1861, and of January, 1862. It was in May that an 
order for an additional regiment of infantry was received 
from the war department, and recruiting officers were at 
once set at work. Through their persevering efforts a 
suflRcient number to form the nucleus for a regiment 
arrived at Concord, the rendezvous appointed by the 
governor, during the latter part of June. The larger 
portion of the regiment was enlisted in July, and on the 
23d of August the organization was completed, the regi- 
ment numbering 975 men besides the commissioned 
officers. 

" No person will be commissioned excepting those who 
actually labor in recruiting and forwarding the organiza- 
tion of the regiment. There are no sinecure offices to 
be dispensed in this regiment." 

Such was the general order issued by the governor on 
June 27, and those who held officers' commissions in the 
Ninth did yeoman service for them. Some had been 
in the three-months regiments, and thus were valuable 
aids in "breaking in" recruits; others had " taken the 
stump " in the towns and villages, and so persuasive 
had been their silvery eloquence that, as one poor fellow 
pathetically remarked, when asked why he had enlisted, 
" I jest couldn't help it, he talked so to us." But they 



i862.] AT CAMP COLBY. 7 

were good men and true, — all of them, — and were both 
loved and respected by the soldiers whom they com- 
manded. 

Up to the middle of June the camp was under the 
command of Josiah Stevens, Jr., of Concord. The com- 
mission of colonel had been tendered to Enoch Q^ Fel- 
lows, of Sandwich, an officer who had so distinguished 
himself in his command of the Third New Hampshire, 
that he had been recommended to President Lincoln for 
appointment as brigadier-general, by the governor and 
council. But the new regiment was to be organized 
and equipped, and Colonel Fellows was just the man 
needed for the work. He had been educated at West 
Point, and men who knew the rudiments of tactics and 
could drill a company or regiment were scarce in those 
days ; so there was great rejoicing in camp when it was 
announced that Colonel Fellows had accepted the com- 
mission and would at once assume command, which he 
did on June 14. 

Then the camp settled down to solid work, for the 
men soon learned that soldiering and drilling under a 
hot July sun was anything but play. But the transform- 
ing of an awkward boy into a soldier was often a trying 
process, both to officer and recruit. How humiliating 
to be relegated to the "awkward squad ;" to be made 
to turn to the right, the left ; face this way, that way ; 
dress up, align, and touch elbows ; keep your eyes front 
and your heels together; move forward, sidewise, back- 
ward, and oblique ; turn about, wheel about — till you 
felt as if you were inside out — over and over again ! and 
by and by, when you could do it all in " double-quick" 
time, you were sent back to your own company — to 
laugh at the evolution of other " greenies." However, 



8 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [July 

Colonel Fellows had good material to work on, and 
though the discipline at times could not fail to be irk- 
some, yet the men generally took it in good part, learn- 
ing in their subsequent career the value of the thorough 
drill they received at Camp Colby, and that the drilling 
under the hot sun there was an excellent preparation for 
the scorching heat in which they would march for many 
a weary mile before they saw their homes again. 

Tender memories cluster around even these first days 
of soldier life, and the following incident, so touching in 
its very simplicity, will bring back to many a gray-haired 
man to-da}'^ the remembrance of his first night in the 
crowded tents, and how few there were who had the 
courage to so bravely yet modestly declare their alle- 
giance to the great Captain as did the hero of this little 
sketch, Frank J. Leverett of Company I. 

MY TENT-MATE. 
By William H. Rand. 

" Lights out ! Lights out !" 

It was the martial voice of Sergeant Wilcox, making 
his way among the tents of Company I, to acquaint the 
raw recruits with the import of the signal known as 
*'taps." 

"Lights out!" 

The voice and the footsteps grew more and more dis- 
tinct, and then slowly receded, leaving us to darkness 
and our own reflections. This was our first night in camp, 
and we were for the most part strangers to each other, 
though huddled together in tents of the Sibley pattern, 
each large enough to shelter a score of men. There 
was one of our number, however, a slender, blue-eyed 
boy, whom I had known from childhood. His name 



i862] AT CAMP COLBY. g 

was Frank. He was one of those manly, resolute fel- 
lows who so habitually do the right thing so naturally 
and so easily that it always seems as if with them there 
is no alternative. 

With the extinction of the lights the hum of conversa- 
tion had ceased in our tent, but presently the silence was 
broken by a clear, unfaltering voice: "Boys, I always 
pray before I go to sleep ; and if there is no objection, 
I '11 do so now." Then followed a prayer committing 
home and friends and all our dearest interests to the 
keeping of the one strong Hand and loving Heart that 
rule the world. Devoid of self-consciousness as Frank 
was in this act of devotion, you may be sure that the 
moral courage which prompted him to do it, amid such 
surroundings, did not fail of recognition among his 
comrades. 

In after days, when, on the toilsome march, they saw 
Frank's mud-splashed figure plodding patiently at their 
side ; or when, in the dread shock of battle, they beheld 
that youthful visage begrimed with dust and powder, 
memory recalled their first night in the far-off' camp at 
Concord. "The boy that prayed" was transfigured 
before them, and under his smoke-stained features and 
dusty blouse they discerned a soul of kinship with the 
martyrs and the saints of old. 

Though scathless in fight, Frank fell at last a victim 
of disease, and it was my lot to accompany his sorrow- 
ing mother on the homeward journey with the body of 
her heroic son. In an awkward attempt at consolation, 
as the train bore us swiftly along, I gave my testimony 
to Frank's noble character and conduct throughout his 
army life. At the end of my recital, this Spartan — no, 
this Christian — mother answered with a smile, " My boy 



lO NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [July, 

is safe with One whom he always loved and served 
wherever he might be. I shall see him again one day, 
for I know that all is well with him. " 

The regiment was armed with Windsor rifles with 
sword bayonets, — then a novelty, — and the recruits were 
very proud of them. At dress parade the appearance of 
the regiment was excellent, and its evolutions were wit- 
nessed by crowds of people. 

Josiah Stevens, Jr., of Concord, had been commis- 
sioned lieutenant-colonel, but, as he had resigned, the 
commission was given to Herbert B. Titus, of Chester- 
field, who was then acting as major. Lieutenant-Colonel 
Titus had served as second, and again as first, lieutenant 
of Company A, Second New Hampshire volunteers, and 
on detached service as a signal officer, and had received 
his commission as major of the Ninth in June, 1862. 
He was promoted to the lieutenant-colonelcy August 26, 
and George W. Everett, of New London, was commis- 
sioned major. Major Everett did not leave the state 
with the regiment, on account of illness, but joined it 
before the Battle of Fredericksburg in December. 

George H. Chandler, of Concord, received the com- 
mission of adjutant, and well deserved the position. His 
zeal, ability, and industry were of great service in the 
organizing and equipping of the regiment, and proved, 
as did his subsequent work in the field, that he was the 
right man in the right place. 

The roster of the companies speaks well for the energy 
of the recruiting officers, for it shows that the men came 
from nearly all parts of the state. Company A was largely 
recruited from Rockingham county ; Company B, from 
Hillsborough ; Company C came in about equal propor- 



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tions from Hillsborough and Strafford counties ; Company 
D, from Strafford ; Company E, from Sullivan ; Compa- 
nies F and G are largely credited to Sullivan county, 
though Somersworth and Manchester were well repre- 
sented in Company F ; Company H had a large quota 
of Rochester men ; Company I was recruited mostly from 
Cheshire county, all the officers and more than one third 
of the enlisted men being residents of Keene, and all 
making a good record, while it is doubtful if there is 
another company in the state so largely represented 
to-day by members living in the same town or city from 
which they enlisted ; the major part of the members of 
Company K enlisted from the town of Newport in Sulli- 
van county. 

The month of August, 1862, was a disastrous one for 
the Northern army, and there came an urgent call for 
more troops in the field ; for the steady progress of Lee's 
army northward, and his threat to capture Washington 
and Baltimore and provision his troops from the fertile 
Pennsylvania valleys, had aroused the entire North. 
When the Ninth regiment was fully equipped for service 
the following order was received : 

State of New Hampshire, 

[L. s.] Adjutant-General's Office, 

Concord, August 22, 1862. 
General Order. 

To Enoch Q. Fellows, Esq., 

Colonel Commanding ()th Regiment IV. H. Volunteers : 

Sir : You will proceed with the regiment under your command on Mon- 
day morning, the 25th inst., at 7 o'clock a. m., to Washington, D. C, 
— by way of Nashua, Worcester, and Providence, and report to Major- 
Gen'l Halleck— 

By order of the Governor, 

Anthony Colby, AdjH-Gen^l. 



12 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [August, 

This was the final order received from any state 
authority, the regiment being mustered into the United 
States service, at Concord, by Col. Seth Eastman, 
U. S. A. The next day the following complete roster 
of the field and staff", and of each company, was 
announced : 

Headquarters Ninth Regiment 

New Hampshire Volunteers, 

Camp Colbv, Concord, August 23, 1862. 
General Orders 

No. 6. 

This regiment is known as the Ninth New Hampshire Regiment 
OF Volunteers. The field officers are, — 

Colonel, Enoch Q. Fellows; lieutenant-colonel, Herbert B. Titus; 
major, George W. Everett, 

The commissioned staff are, — 

Adjutant, George H. Chandler; quartermaster, Carleton B. Hutch- 
ins; surgeon, William A. Webster; assistant surgeons, John S. Emer- 
son, Francis N. Gibson; chaplain, Edward M. Gushee. 

The non-commissioned staff are, — 

Sergeant-major, Edwin Greene; commissarj'-sergeant, Howard M. 
Hanson; quartermaster-sergeant, James B. Perry; hospital steward, 
A. Warner Shepard; principal musicians of infantry, Sylvanus Adams, 
Alden B. Bennett. 

This regiment is composed of ten companies, which are lettered 
from A to K, in the order in which they were mustered into the service 
of the United States. 

The company now commanded by Captain Pillsbury shall be known 
as Company A. 

The company now commanded by Captain Alexander shall be known 
as Company B. 

The company now commanded by Captain A. S. Edgerly shall be 
known as Company C. 

The company now commanded by Captain Stevens shall be known 
as Company D. 



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The company now commanded by Captain Buswell shall be known 
as Company E. 

The company now commanded by Captain Stone shall be known as 
Company F. 

The company now commanded by Captain Whitfield shall be known 
as Company G. 

The company now commanded by Captain C. W. Edgerly shall be 
known as Company H. 

The company now commanded by Captain Babbitt shall be known 
as Company I. 

The company now commanded by Captain Cooper shall be known 
as Company K. 

The commissioned officers of Company A are, — 
Captain, Leonard H. Pillsbury ; first lieutenant, William S. Pillsbury ; 
second lieutenant, Oliver P. Newcomb. 

The commissioned officers of Company B are, — 
Captain, S. Judson Alexander ; first lieutenant, Willard N. Haradon ; 
second lieutenant, T. Melville Chisholm. 

The commissioned officers of Company C are, — 
Captain, Augustus S. Edgerly ; first lieutenant, Charles W. Tilton ; 
second lieutenant, Charles D. Copp. 

The commissioned officers of Company D are, — 
Captain, Chester C. Stevens ; first lieutenant, Andrew J. Hough ; 
second lieutenant, Albert G. Merrill. 

The commissioned officers of Company E are, — 
Captain, Daniel C. Buswell ; first lieutenant, Asa T. Hutchinson ; 
second lieutenant, James N. Edminster. 

The commissioned officers of Company F are, — 
Captain, Andrew J. Stone; first lieutenant, William P. Moses; sec- 
ond lieutenant, John E. Mason. 

The commissioned officers of Company G are, — 
Captain, Smith A, Whitfield ; first lieutenant, Orville Smith ; second 
lieutenant, Charles A. Harnden. 

The commissioned officers of Company H are, — 
Captain, Charles W. Edgerly ; first lieutenant, John G. Lewis ; sec- 
ond lieutenant, James Blaisdell. 



14 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [August, 

The commissioned officers of Company I are, — 
Captain, John W. Babbitt ; first lieutenant, Jacob Green ; second 
lieutenant. Nelson N. Sawyer. 

The commissioned officers of Company K are, — 
Captain, John B. Cooper; first lieutenant, Ervin T. Case; second 
lieutenant, William I. Brown. 

The rank of captains in this regiment is as follows : 

Senior captain. Captain Babbitt ; second captain. Captain Stevens ; 

third captain. Captain Edgerly (A. S.) ; fourth captain. Captain Stone; 

fifth captain. Captain Buswell ; sixth captain. Captain Whitfield; 

seventh captain. Captain Edgerly (C. W.) ; eighth captain. Captain 

Pillsbury ; ninth captain. Captain Alexander ; junior captain. Captain 

Cooper. 

The non-commissioned officers in the several companies in this regi- 
ment are as follows : 

Company A. — First sergeant, Leonard H. Caldwell ; second sergeant, 
Ira S. Abbott; third sergeant, Charles J. Symonds ; fourth sergeant, 
Scott W. Keyser ; fifth sergeant, Joseph G. Morrill; first corporal, 
Francis M. Caldwell; second corporal, Abraham Sanborn; third cor- 
poral, Franklin H. Foster; fourth corporal, Morrison Alexander; fifth 
corporal, Monroe Tappan ; sixth corporal, Cyrus M. Roberts ; seventh 
corporal, Louis Myers. 

Company B. — First sergeant, John Mooney ; second sergeant, Ludo B. 
Little ; third sergeant, Warren H. Edmands ; fourth sergeant, Webster 
Heath; fifth sergeant, William H. Hoyt; first corporal, Wyman Pet- 
tingill ; second corporal, George Hodgman ; third corporal, George W. 
Cutler; fourth corporal, John F. Mudgett ; fifth corporal, George H. 
Richardson ; sixth corporal, Joseph G. Woods ; seventh corporal, Aus- 
tin Tucker; eighth corporal, William F. Clough. 

Company C. — First sergeant, David F. Cheney ; second sergeant, 
Wentworth Butler; third sergeant, Thomas J. Richards; fourth ser- 
geant, John P. Whipple; fifth sergeant, Simeon Pierce; first corporal, 
Orrin A. Small; second corporal, Peter F. Phelps; third corporal, 
Jesse S. Bean; fourth corporal, Samuel R. Eastman; fifth corporal, 
Barclay C. Buswell ; sixth corporal, Hiram W. French ; seventh cor- 
poral, Jerome Kelley; eighth corporal, John Robinson. 



i862.] AT CAMP COLBY. 1 5 

Company D. — First sergeant, George W. Emery; second sergeant, 
John Donovan; third sergeant, Edwin H. Webster; fourth sergeant, 
Andrew J. Sanborn; fifth sergeant, Stacy W. Hall; first corporal, 
Henry J. Boothby ; second corporal, Thomas Goodwin ; third corporal, 
Eugene Thurston ; fourth corporal, Charles W. Batchelder; fifth cor- 
poral, George S. Eastman; sixth corporal, Charles Burleigh; seventh 
corporal, Horace P. Dearborn ; eighth corporal, Edward D. Lothrop. 

Company E. — First sergeant, Henry O. Sargent; second sergeant, 
N. Warren Pulsifer; third sergeant, James C. Ayer; fourth sergeant, 
Oscar D. Robinson ; fifth sergeant, Rodney Perham ; first corporal, 
JohnW, Robinson; second corporal, Cyrus B. Norris ; third corporal, 
Jonathan P. Stewart; fourth corporal, Charles C. Stevens; fifth cor- 
poral, George B. Tracy; sixth corporal, Albert H. Taft; seventh 
corporal, Francis O. Riley; eighth corporal, Elmer Bragg. 

Company F. — First sergeant, Horace Rolfe ; second sergeant, Edward 
C. Babb ; third sergeant, George P. Sylvester ; fourth sergeant, Edgar W. 
Densmore ; fifth sergeant, George H. Drew; first corporal, James W. 
Lathe ; second corporal, William A. Canfield ; third corporal, Oliver H. 
Dudley; fourth corporal, Charles H. Blaisdell; fifth corporal, George 
Gordon ; sixth corporal, Henry M. Tracy ; seventh corporal, Charles M. 
Noyes ; eighth corporal, Hiram S. Lathe. 

Company G. — First sergeant, George W. Gove ; second sergeant. 
Napoleon B. Osgood; third sergeant, William D. Rice; fourth ser- 
geant, George H. Dodge; fifth sergeant, James L. Colburn ; first cor- 
poral, Lorenzo M. Uphani ; second corporal, James H. Fersons ; third 
corporal, William E. Way; fourth corporal, Edward K. Marsh; fifth 
corporal, Joseph C. Chapman; sixth corporal, Horace Page; seventh 
corporal, Varanus Atwood ; eighth corporal, Albert B. Cressey. 

Company H. — First sergeant, H. Baxter Quimby; second sergeant, 
John C. Sampson; third sergeant, Joseph B. Twombly ; fourth ser- 
geant, Charles E. Blackmer ; fifth sergeant, John Howe; first corporal, 
Frederick Morse; second corporal, Mark G. Staples; third corporal, 
Sylvester Ham ; fourth corporal, John W. Roberts ; fifth corporal, 
Moses L. Chace ; sixth corporal, Moses F. Gray; seventh corporal, 
Charles B. Hussey ; eighth corporal, Timothy O'Connor. 

Company I. — First sergeant, Charles W. Wilcox; second sergeant, 
Braman I. Wilson; third sergeant, Elisha Ayers ; fourth sergeant. 



l6 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [August, 

S. Horace Perry; fifth sergeant, Samuel W. Fletcher; first corporal, 
John B. Buckman ; second corporal, William H. Rand; third cor- 
poral, Hercules W. Raymond ; fourth corporal, George Stearns ; fifth 
corporal, Henry E. Hubbard ; sixth corporal, George W. McClure ; 
seventh corporal, Charles H. Knights; eighth corporal, Marshall P. 
Wood. 

Company K. — First sergeant, Benjamin R. Allen; second sergeant, 
Charles H. Little; third sergeant, Gilman Leavitt ; fourth sergeant, 
William M. George; fifth sergeant, Daniel W. Howe; first corporal, 
Charles A. Wood; second corporal, Edwin R. Miller; third corporal, 
Sylvester Spaulding; fourth corporal, Joel S. Blood; fifth corporal, 
Prentiss C. Hutchinson; sixth corporal, Eli A. Huntoon ; seventh 
corporal, Henry Tompkins; eighth corporal, Edward C. Kelsey. 

The position of the several companies in this regiment in order of 
battle will be according to the rank of captains, and is as follows : 

Company I, the first company, upon the right ; Company G, the 
second company ; Company F, the third company ; Company B, the 
fourth company ; Company C, the fifth company ; Company A, the sixth 
company; Company E, the seventh company; Company K, the eighth 
company; Company H, the ninth company; Company D, the tenth 
company. 

The several companies, posted as above, will be designated from 
right to left in the manoeuvres, as first, second, third, fourth, fifth, 
sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth companies. 

All officers and non-commissioned officers in this regiment will be 
recognized, respected, and obeyed according to their respective rank 
and position in the qommand. 

Officers of the day will be detailed for one day's duty only, or until 
relieved. 

The morning reports of companies, signed by the captains and first 
sergeants, will be handed to the acting adjutant before 8 o'clock in the 
morning. 

AH roll-calls prescribed by sections 224, 225, and 226 of article 27 
of the Army Regulations will be strictly observed. 

The provisions of the Army Regulations of 1S61 will be strictly 
observed, as the acknowledged and standard authority from the war 



i862.] AT CAMP COLBY. 17 

department, for the government of this regiment, except when special 
necessity requires their modification, which necessity will be announced 
in general or special orders. 

By order of Enoch Q. Fellows, 

Colonel Coj/!!/mndii!g. 

George H. Chandler, 

Adjittani. 

Only a printed list of names ! — and yet the men who 
are left to-day will never forget the thrill of conscious 
pride with which they heard their official position in the 
regiment thus publicly recognized ; while to the dear 
ones of those whose eyes are sealed in the sleep that 
knows no waking, the sight of names once so familiar 
brings back the past, with all its tender memories of the 
loved and lost. 

The Ninth made its first official march as an organ- 
ization to the state house, and there received its colors 
from the hands of Governor Berry. Then, with its flags 
floating gently in the breeze, to the sound of martial 
music — from " a band that couldn't be beat" — the regi- 
ment filed out of the state house yard, up the Main street, 
and crossing the river to the camp-ground, held its first 
formal dress parade. 

The next day was Sunday, August 24; but that 
there are no Sabbaths in war, is a saying which has at 
least a foundation of fact, and while the regiment was 
not yet sufficiently near to the scene of actual warfare, 
nor were the men sufficiently advanced in the transition 
state from citizens to soldiers to realize its truth, 3-et they 
were too far advanced for this to be entirely a day of 
rest. Certain soldierly duties were to be performed — 
duties necessar}^ for the w^ell-being and discipline of the 

regiment, and which could not be neglected even for a 

II 



l8 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [August, 

day. The regular guard-mounting was held at eight 
o'clock, and was followed by an inspection by Adjutant- 
General Colby — " Governor" Colby he was to the older 
generation, and was often familiarly so called, having 
been governor of the state in i846-'47. 

To the members of each company, after inspection in 
their respective company streets, he spoke words of 
caution and advice in a familiar and fatherly way, yet 
pointedly and briefly, as became a man of his great 
practical common sense. Then came services on the 
parade ground, conducted by Chaplain Gushee, and 
these were attended by all of the men not on duty. A 
great number of visitors was present at these services, 
and a still greater number witnessed the evening dress 
parade, the last at this camp. Many a good-bye letter 
was written that day, and each man in his own way 
made ready for the great event of the morrow. 




Chaplain Edward M. Gushee. 



CHAPTER II. 

From Concord to South Mountain. 

On that well-remembered 25th of August the camp 
was early astir. Knapsacks were packed, the teams 
loaded, the line was formed, and at seven o'clock— 
"Adieu to Camp Colby !" 

Even at that early hour there were crowds of people 
upon the streets, and they greeted the regiment with 
cheers as it passed on its way to the station, where still 
greater crowds were in waiting. But there was little 
time for greetings or partings, for the train was in wait- 
ing, and was soon filled. The twenty cars for the men 
were unmistakably "filled," for as every man had his 
gun and equipments, his knapsack with overcoat and 
blanket-roll, his haversack and canteen, there was no 
opportunity for any one to occupy more than his own 
limited share of seat, rack, or even floor space. An 
extra car for the officers, with six cars for their horses 
and the baggage, made up a train whose length caused 
manv a comment among the men, and seemed to mag- 
nify their already enlarged sense of their own importance. 
Providence was reached without any unusual incident, 
and after a short halt here the next stage of the journey 
was to Groton, Conn. At this point the regiment was 
transferred to the steamer Commonwealth, of the Ston- 
incrton line, and landed at Jersey City about eight o'clock 
the next morning. After a wait here of several hours, 



20 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [August, 

a train was again taken, for the tedious ride across the 
state of New Jersey, and Philadelphia was reached atseven 
o'clock in the evening. Two gentlemen, representatives 
of an association of citizens, were in waiting at the sta- 
tion, and conducted the regiment to the famous Union 
refreshment saloon, or "Cooper shop," where the}^ w^ere 
treated to a bountiful supper, and were waited upon at 
the tables by scores of fair ladies. From the saloon, 
through streets lined with throngs of enthusiastic citi- 
zens, they marched back to the railroad station, and at 
II :30 were off for Baltimore, that mob-breeding city, 
through which the regiment marched next day without 
any special incident except that they w^ere treated to a 
cfood dinner. 

On arriving at Washington, about 7:30 in the even- 
ing, the regiment was met at the Baltimore & Ohio rail- 
road station by an aid of General Casey, who bore an 
order for them to proceed across the Long bridge into 
Virginia. At so late an hour, and the men being 
fatigued by their long ride, it seemed very desirable 
that they should remain at or near the station until 
morning. But orders are orders, and the subaltern of 
course had no discretion in the matter. Colonel Fel- 
lows inquired where he could find General Casey, and 
being informed that he was at the Ebbitt House, he 
accepted the invitation of the messenger to accom- 
pany him there in his carriage. Permission for the 
regiment to remain where it was for that night w^as 
readily obtained from the general, who also requested 
Colonel Fellows to call at his office at the Long bridge 
when the regiment arrived there. 

Earlv the next morning the following order was 
received : 



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Head-Quarteks Provisional Brigades, 

Washington, August 28, 1862. 

568 Fourteenth street. 
Special Orders, 

No. 70. 

1. The 9th New Hampshire Vols., Col. E. Q. Fellows, will proceed 
without delay across the Long Bridge and encamp at Camp "Chase" 
near Fort "Albany." 

2. Col. D. H. Rucker, O. M., U. S. A., will furnish the necessary 

transportation. 

By order of Brig. Gen. Casey. 

C. H. Raymond, 

Lt. and Aide. 
CoL. Fellows, 

9th N. H. 

In compliance with this order the regiment started about 
eight o'clock, and on arrival at the Long bridge was 
halted while Colonel Fellows made his call at General 
Casey's office. After giving him directions in regard to 
the crossing into Virginia, General Casey handed Colo- 
nel Fellows the following order of assignment : 

Head-Quarters Provisional Brigades, 

Washington, August 28th, 1862. 

568 Fourteenth street. 
Special Orders, 

No. 72. 

The following named Regiments are assigned to Gen'l Whipple's 
command, and their respective Colonels will, in person, report to him, 
viz. : 

I. 9th Regt. New Hampshire Volunteers. 



1 20th Regt. New York Volunteers. 



By order of Gen'l Casey. 

Robert N. Scott, 
Capt. \th Infy, A. A. A. G. 



\ 



The Ninth regiment, New Hampshire volunteers, had 
reached historic ground I The famous Long bridge, 



22 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [August, 

spanning the Potomac,' was a wooden structure, the 
framework resting chiefly on piling, with a few stone 
piers, and its name became a famihar one to the country 
during the war. Hundreds of thousands of soldiers 
crossed and recrossed it. Many times it shook beneath 
the tread of regiments, brigades, and divisions marching 
to "the front." Many thousands of the brave men who 
crossed it, with their faces southward, did not return. 
Through all those days, weeks, months, and years, 
wagons trailed over it, laden with supplies of food, 
clothing, and ammunition for the army. Hundreds of 
ambulances bore across it their burdens of wounded and 
suffering soldiers. The Long bridge was the connecting 
link between Washington and the brave, patient, and 
long-suffering Army of the Potomac. 

On crossing the bridge, the regiment was met on the 
Virginia side by Col. Daniel Hall, of Dover, then a cap- 
tain on General Whipple's staff'. Captain Hall con- 
ducted the regiment to the high ground some two miles 
to the westward, the place of the designated camping- 
ground, — "Camp 'Chase,' near Fort 'Albany,'" and 
soon afterwards Colonel F'ellows reported in person to 
General Whipple, at his head-quarters, not tar distant. 

Such is the story, officially told, of how it was, that in 
obedience to the order to proceed with the regiment to 
Washington and report to Major-General Halleck, the 
Ninth New Hampshire was transported from Concord to 
Washington, from New Hampshire to Virginia soil, and 
from state to federal control. But there was a stand- 
point, other than that of authority and responsibility, 
from which it was viewed by all the rest, or well-nigh 
all the rest, of the regiment, to whom the trip was a 
novelty and its scenes and incidents were new and 



1 862.] FROM CONCORD TO SOUTH MOUNTAIN. 23 

intensely interesting. And how it all appeared, espe- 
cially to the farmer boys, who had never before been out 
of sight of their native hills, but whose keen eyes noth- 
ing escaped, — and of such was the majority — can best 
be told, and in fact can be truthfully told, only by them- 
selves ; and how they told it, in diaries kept and in let- 
ters to home friends, the following will show : 

A COMPOSITE DIARY. 
Fron the rank a)id file. 

"As we marched down Main street [in Concord] citi- 
zens of both sexes filled windows, doors, and balconies, 
and hundreds with tearful eyes signalled their final adieus. 
At the depot the scene was an inexpressibly sad one. 
One thought occupied all minds and filled every 
eye with tears, — ' Many of these now going forth will 
return no more.' Oh, blessed uncertainty that does not 
reveal which shall be taken and which left ! 

"Everywhere along the route the people flocked out 
to welcome us and bid us ' God speed.' As this is my 
first experience in travelling by water, I find much to 
astonish and interest me. 

"At five o'clock the next morning I went on deck. 
The sea was slightly rulfled b}^ the brisk breeze against 
which our noble steamer was majestically working her 
way. On our left lay Long Island, presenting a beauti- 
ful variety of groves, sandbanks, and green, sloping hill- 
sides : while on the right were numerous small islands, 
on many of which were elegant mansions, and on every 
hand were water-craft of all descriptions, from the tin}' 
skiff' to the huge man-o'-war with its wide-spreading 
sails and frowning port-holes. 



24 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [August, 

" . . . But soon the natural scenery began to grow 
less like nature, and the increased number of vessels told 
us we were nearing the ' Empire City.' As we passed 
steamers and ferry-boats, cheers were exchanged by the 
soldiers and crowds of passengers ; our band standing 
forward on the deck played national airs, and the whole 
scene was one to inspire a glow of national pride in 
every heart. As we passed up between New York 
and Brooklyn, on either side was a forest of masts, 
and beyond a sea of houses. 

" When we landed at Jersey City and marched through 
the streets, I was much more impressed by the charac- 
ter of the inhabitants than the appearance of the place. 
No sooner did we halt here than scores of 
women, neatly attired and with smiling faces, came 
out with tea, coffee, and eatables, while the boys 
flocked around, eager to fill our canteens with ice 
water. 

"Arrived at Philadelphia in the evening, via Trenton. 
There we were furnished with a splendid supper by a 
society which, free of expense, furnishes every regiment 
passing through the city with a sumptuous meal. After 
the regiment had been victualled, we marched about two 
miles to the Baltimore depot, and during all the route the 
streets were thronged with women and children shaking 
our hands and saying ' Good-bye, soldier ; good-bye, 
brother,' with as much apparent emotion as though we 
had been their own citizens. These expressions of pat- 
riotism and hospitality have given our men an exalted 
opinion of the ' Cit}' of Brotherly Love ' which they will 
not soon forget. 

" Soon after da}'break we reached the Susquehanna at 
' Havre de Grace,' where after a short delay we crossed 



iS62.] FROM CONCORD TO SOUTH MOUNTAIN. 25 

on a ferry. Went into the cabin and took a breakfast, 
for which I paid 25 cents. Arrived at BaUimore about 
noon, and marched through the streets where the first 
blood was shed in this great war for freedom, to the 
Washington depot. Our reception was not much hke 
that received in Jersey City and Philadelphia, yet here 
we were supplied with a good dinner and the boys filled 
our canteens with water without charge. 

"As we went on through Maryland, we seemed to 
be passing into a land of antiquity. Everything which 
w^e beheld bore evidence of the enervating influence of 
slavery. 

"Arrived at Washington about dark, and of course we 
were somewhat fatigued by our journey, although it was 
a very pleasant one, all things considered. Our regi- 
ment was fed and lodged at the 'Soldiers' Retreat.' 
The}'^ tell us that troops are pouring in continually 
from all quarters, at the rate of 10,000 per day, and 
it is a wonder to me how they manage to feed them 
here, for they all come hungry. 

" We had not room enough in the 'Retreat' for all to 
lie down comfortably ; each man was compelled to lie 
'top of his equipments,' and then they were so thick it 
was almost impossible to walk through without walking 
on men ; so I took my luggage and equipments, went out 
of doors, and slept nicely till morning. 

"As soon as it was light I washed up, and it seemed 
as though a cup of tea would do me good, for I had no 
appetite for breakfast. I had the tea, but how to get 
it steeped was, the question. Taking a good drawing 
from my knapsack, I watched my opportunity to pass 
the guard, and started for some rusty-looking houses at 
some distance from the barracks. When I arrived there 



26 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [August, 

I perceived by more than one sense that they were 
inhabited by Irish families, including men, women, 
children, goats, fowls, etc. After calling at several 
places where they 'didn't make any fire yet,' I at 
length found some hot water and a woman who was 
perfectly willing to loan the use of her teapot, and 
without reference to the environment, I made the infu- 
sion and drank it with a very good relish, poured some 
in my canteen, and put back to camp. 

" . . . I expected to see the ' elephant' this morn- 
ing, but am disappointed in beholding nothing but an 
ungainly calf. Everything appears either unfinished or 
so antique as to be fast going to decay. My ill feelings 
may have something to do with giving me these impres- 
sions, but I am sure I should never regard the droves of 
speckled, black, and brindled hogs which I saw on the 
sidewalks, nor the dead horse which I saw in the street, 
as an ornament to any city. Did not have time to visit 
the public buildings, which we are informed are the 
glory of the city. 

"About eight o'clock this morning they formed the 
regiment in line of march for Arlington Heights, but, 
feeling unable to march, I with several others hired 
some teams to carry ourselves and luggage. I felt rather 
cheap to fail up on the first march, but I could not have 
stood it, for they took the regiment in the first place for a 
' show ' round through the city, and they raised such a 
dust that you could not see ten paces ahead, and before 
they reached the camp-ground at least one half the regi- 
ment had fallen out by the way. 

" . . . The sun shone terribly hot, and man}^ of 
us have knapsacks too heavy by far for the march. But 
we are now here, encamped in an orchard, and the men 



1862.] FROM CONCORD TO SOUTH MOUNTAIN. 27 

are in good spirits. Qiiite a shower came up before we 
got our tents pitched, during which we protected our- 
selves as best we could with our rubber blankets. Got 
our tents up just before night, and turned in for our first 
sleep on Virginia soil. I presume we shall not remain 
here more than two or three days before moving nearer 
the main army, which I understand is nearing us." 

The trip so full of interest to the farmer boy and 
embryo soldier, was probably as devoid of happenings 
as such a journey could well be ; and but for the fact of 
having been recorded at the time, its scenes and inci- 
dents, obscured by distance, and especially by the inter- 
vening and all-important events of the life upon which 
they were entering, would have sunk from sight or 
remained a mere speck upon the horizon of memory. 

One incident, recalled by a letter wi"itten at the time 
by an officer of the regiment, may be mentioned as 
fairly illustrative of ordinary military methods : 

After seeing the men distributed about the boat and 
made as comfortable as possible, the officers began to 
think about supper. In reply to their inquiries and 
requests, they were informed by the captain that supper 
would not be served until the passengers by the eleven 
o'clock train were on board. Hunger, however, is not 
conducive to formality, even in an officer, and about ten 
o'clock they marched to the dining-room and seated 
themselves at the tables. Supper was not forthcoming, 
but the captain was ; and he threatened, if they did not 
leave, to turn on the steam and drive them out. " Cap- 
tain," said the colonel, " give us our suppers, or I'll take 
possession of this boat and run it myself." Whether the 
captain realized that he was outranked on his own boat, 



28 XIXTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [August, 

or simply concluded to exercise that "better part ot' 
valor," is immaterial. The supper was served, and the 
first victory of the Ninth New Hampshire was a blood- 
less one. 

Late in the afternoon of the day of the arrival of the 
regiment at Camp Chase, tents were received, but not 
enough for the entire regiment, several of the officers 
■even being tentless. The lieutenant-colonel and the 
adjutant were quartered in the porch of a house near by, 
and guarded the entrance as faithfully as sleeping senti- 
nels could. 

About three o'clock the next morning the regiment 
was suddenly aroused by the beat of the long-roll, and 
there ran through the camp the order to "Turn out 
under arms ! " This was promptly done, and, leaving 
only the camp guard and the non-combatants behind, 
the regiment was conducted through the darkness to — 
^' somewhere," about half a mile away, though the 
length of this silent, strange, and darksome march 
seemed much greater ; and after standing for a half hour 
or more stupidly in line, or supposedly so — many of the 
men resting prone upon the ground, and some of them 
being fast asleep — marched back to camp. It was then 
ordered to the Chain bridge, some miles above the city, 
and after a hasty breakfast of bread and coftee again 
started, taking blankets, canteens, and a full day's 
rations in their haversacks. After proceeding about a 
mile and a half the order was countermanded, and again 
the regiment returned to camp. Then striking tents, — 
those who had them — and marching past the historic 
Arlington mansion, — the home of Lee — the regiment 
continued about two and a half miles in a northerly 
direction, having been assigned to a camping-ground 



i862.] FROM CONCORD TO SOUTH MOUNTAIN. 29 

between Forts Woodbury and Corcoran which was. 
known as Camp Whipple. By order of General Whip- 
ple two companies were then sent on a scout to Falls 
church, a few miles distant. 

There were one or two line officers who had been 
in the service previously, and they, judging perhaps 
from some like experience, surmised that this early 
morning "turn-out" might have been a mere rtise dc 
guerre to familiarize the men with war's alarms, and 
to teach every man to have his gun and equipments, 
and in fact all his belongings, where he could lay his 
hand on them at any time, day or night; and this not- 
withstanding the severe punishment to which any officer 
might be liable who should occasion a false alarm in 
camp. The second order, however, — to march to the 
Chain bridge — would evidently be carrying any such 
grim joke a little too far, even for purposes of discipline. 
It seems, rather, from the facts and circumstances, that 
the correct explanation was given b}^ a private, who 
remarked in a peculiar drawling tone and with a 
touch of the Yankee twang, " I guess somebody was 
skairt." 

A diary entry of this their " first great military ex- 
ploit," as it is somewhat facetiously called, is as fol- 
lows : 

"The night was very dark; not half of us knew 
where to get into line or which way to face. In fact, we 
don't know anj^thing, and until we have some drill it can 
hardly be expected that we should. After much bewil- 
derment we got into line and started off with our guns, 
leaving everything else behind. Wondered what we 
could do without ammunition, but felt sure that we could 
do some fighting at the point of the bayonet." 



30 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [August, 

While the opinion thus expressed as to their knowl- 
edge, or rather their want of it, was somewhat of a 
depreciative exaggeration, it is quite true that in the 
school of the soldier the regiment had still much to learn ; 
and it is equally true, that during the stay at this camp 
there was little opportunity to learn it. There was an 
average total of one day of drill, by company and squad, 
and a single dress parade — and that was all, except the 
daily detail for camp guard and of a company or more 
for picket duty. 

But in "fatigue duty" the regiment became, or at 
least had the opportunity to become, quite proficient. 
This was performed mostly with the shovel, digging 
rifle-pits or constructing other earthworks for defence, 
and then with the ax, felling the trees in their front or 
wherever a possible military necessity or advantage 
might require. And this possibility did not spare the 
orchards, nor have regard for shade or ornament ; the 
ruthless hand of war laid the ax even unto the roots, and 
every tree which might afford concealment or protection 
to an advancing enemy was hewn down, irrespective of 
its value or the quality of its fruit. 

This digging and tree cutting was largely upon the 
Lee estate, and all of it presumably on the property of 
the enemy ; and yet it was not without regret and 
thoughts of home trees, and of the years required 
to bring them to maturity, that this destruction was 
wrought. 

This fatigue duty showed the advantage of being a 
non-commissioned officer in a new light, as ordinarily 
but two corporals and perhaps a sergeant were detailed 
witii a company ; and these were not expected to work 
themselves — only to see that the men worked — each act- 



i862.] FROM CONCORD TO iiOUTH MOUNTAIN. 3 1 

ing as a sort of "foreman of the gang," as a detailed 
corporal somewhat pretentiously, though not inaptl}^ 
styled himself. Nor was it the non-commissioned officers 
alone who considered themselves fortunate in this respect, 
for the whole detail was in charge of a single commis- 
sioned officer. 

" For fatigue purposes" the "Army Regulations" pre- 
scribe "a sack coat of dark blue flannel extending half 
way down the thigh, and made loose, without sleeve or 
body lining, falling collar, inside pocket on the left side, 
four buttons down the front." Now though the men had 
little knowledge of tactics, and still less of " Regula- 
tions," they did know the first duty of the soldier — to 
obey orders. So they went to their daily digging with- 
out a murmur, stripped off their uniform coats, all 
unconscious that they were not of the prescribed pattern 
for such duty, and toiling away in the hot August sun, 
piled up the fresh earth and — malaria; the one as a 
defence against an enemy that never there appeared, the 
other in itself a foe far more insidious and no less dan- 
gerous, and one that, often re-enforced and constantly 
encountered, many a man, surviving all else, has found 
was never to be conquered. 

A diary belonging to one of Stonewall Jackson's men 
was picked up somewhere in the track of his famous 
" foot cavalry," and day after day, for many days in 
succession, it contained only this succinct entry : "We 
marched." With equal conciseness, for an average of 
at least four of their eight days at this camp, even the 
regimental journal might read, "We shovelled;" and 
for another two days, " We chopped." The Yankees, 
however, were more elaborate in their descriptions, as 
appears by the following diary entries : 



32 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [August, 

" Our compan}'' was detailed to go out and chop. 
Started about eight o'clock in the morning and worked 
all day, and was mighty tired come night." 

" Rain set in during the forenoon. Thought I should 
have a nice time, however, for writing letters in our 
snug little tent, but just as T was getting out my port- 
folio the order came to ' Fall in,' and off we went to dig 
rifle-pits. Worked hard at this all day." 

" Went out digging to-day on the same line of in- 
trenchments we were engaged upon yesterda3^ It is 
rather hard work, but we take it easy; and if we can 
serve our country better in this way than in any other, I 
am content." 

" Our company was on ' fatigue' again to-da}^. Were 
set at work felling trees along the Potomac. For my- 
self, not only chopped trees but also a generous slice off 
of one of my fingers. In consequence, ' bled ' for my 
country for the first time. A man in a Pennsylvania 
regiment near us was instantly killed by the falling of a 
tree upon him." 

The lamenting diarist last above quoted, thus closes 
his chronicling for the day : 

" Such is our first Sabbath in Virginia. I wonder no 
longer that soldiers forget the day of the week and can't 
tell when Sunday comes. Oh, when shall we see again 
a quiet Sabbath, such as we are wont to enjoy at home !" 

and another adds this cumulative evidence : 

"First Sabbath in a Virginia camp. It has rained 
powerfully all day. This morning the most of our regi- 
ment not on duty were detailed to work on the fortifica- 
tions. Marched about a mile in the rain and mud to get 



i862.] FROM CONCORD TO SOUTH MOUNTAIN. 33 

our tools, thence to the work. Returned to camp at 
night, tired out and hungry." 

Such were the associations connected with this day, 
and such were its contrasts ; but notwithstanding the 
unmiHtary character of the duties, the stay at this camp 
was not uneventful, nor without its object lessons, pre- 
senting in panoramic picture some unexpected phases of 
the life upon which the men were entering. 

The first night, about eleven o'clock, an order came 
from General Whipple to send out two companies on 
picket, and Companies I and C were sent accordingly. 
An hour later, in compliance with another order, the en- 
tire regiment was aroused and turned out under arms, — as 
on the previous night at Camp Chase — and then turned 
in again without leaving camp. 

The next morning the leading regiments of the 
Second corps (Sumner's) were marching past. They 
had arrived from the Peninsula the day before, having 
disembarked at Alexandria. It was an inspiring sight 
to see them thus moving towards the battle-field, march- 
ing, as it seemed, to the music of the already open- 
ing guns of this second day of the Second Bull Run. 
The absence of artillery was noticeable, the horses 
having been shipped by other transports and arriving 
later. But why they should be here, marching ten or 
more miles away from, instead of towards, Pope, Jack- 
son, and Longstreet ; and why halted for the day, while 
the whole corps came up and stretched away in posi- 
tion not far from the camp, seemed somewhat of a puz- 
zle. Could it have any connection with the "scare" of 
the two previous nights? 

How these veterans of the Army of the Potomac 
III 



J 



34 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [August, 

appeared to the embryo soldiers, can best be told in 
their own language. One diary runs thus : 

"They looked weather-beaten, worn out, and ragged. 
Some are almost destitute of shoes. They are in the 
lightest marching order possible, not one in a hundred 
having a knapsack ; and yet they marched on toward the 
battle-field, whence could be heard the roar of artillery 
at this place, with apparent cheerfulness. 

"They call us 'bounty men,' and growl some as they 
see new troops lying still here. One says, 'Why don't 
they send these fellows over to Bull Run?' 'Oh,' says 
another, 'they are afraid they would dirty their new^ 
clothes.' 

"Long trains of ambulances for the wounded also 
passed. I was much interested in examining them to 
see what kind of provision the government had made 
for the suffering and unfortunate soldiers." 

And this, from another diary : 

"This morning another division passed by on their 
way to the scene of conflict. They had left the boats 
at Alexandria the night before, and halted for two or 
three hours in a field near us. Soon after our reveille 
had sounded their drums beat, and in what seemed to 
me an incredibly short time they were in line and mov- 
ing forward. Dust was plenty and water scarce, and 
they besides had no time or chance to apply the latter. 
Their uniforms were faded, and some of them in rags. 
Knapsacks and all the 'extras' in a soldier's outfit were 
extremely scarce among them, and as they marched by, 
dirtv, haggard, weary, and footsore, some of them shoe- 
less, looking upon such a scene for the first time, I 



^ ^ 





Capt. Charles W. Edgerly, Co. H. 



Capt. James Blaisdell, Co. H. 





Sergt. Osmon B. Warren, Co. H. Corp. William J. Lavi;ni>ek, Co. H. 



i862.] FROM CONCORD TO SOUTH MOUNTAIN. 35 

viewed it with mingled surprise, pity, and admiration. 
This was a new phase in soldier life to me, and the 
thought came, ' Can it be possible that this is what you 
may and probably will have to come to ; and is it not 
rather more than you bargained for?'" 

The camping-ground bordered upon the road, above 
which it was sufficiently elevated to enable the men, 
when standing upon the line between camp and high- 
way, to look down upon this moving scene, so fascinat- 
ing in its ever-changing monotony. It presented indeed 
" a new phase in soldier life," even to the few to whom 
so many phases of that life were not unfamiliar. 

Standing thus, as the men of the Fifth New Hamp- 
shire were marching past, — plodding along, bronzed, 
dirty, and grim, perfect types of the self-reliance and 
dogged determination of the veteran soldier — one of the 
men, after gazing at them in silence for a time, finally 
exclaimed, " My God ! Shall we ever look like that?" 

There were mutual recognitions and hearty greet- 
ings between the men of the two regiments, — the one 
already known by its well earned and historic name of 
the "Fighting Fifth," the other whose less euphonious 
appellation of the "Bloody Ninth " was so soon to be 
acquired. 

They halted for the day not far away, and Colonel 
Cross paid the camp quite a visit. In return, he was 
complimented at his head-quarters with a serenade by 
the regimental band. Major Sturtevant was another 
welcome guest. Known personally to Colonel Fellows 
and Captain Edgerly, with whom he had served in the 
First regiment, and to Adjutant Chandler as a towns- 
man, he was also known to all as the first enlisted soldier 



36 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [September, 

in the state, as well as the first to receive authority to 
recruit, and as a brave, gallant, and efficient officer. 
These worthy representatives of the old Granite state, 
who had already won an enviable military reputation, 
both gave their lives to their country — dying as the 
soldier dies, and would wish to die — the one at Get- 
tysburg, to be interred with merited honor in liis own 
loved state, at the place of his birth ; the other at Fred- 
ericksburg, to lie in an unmarked and unknown grave. 

The first of September, General McClellan, going in 
the direction of Washington, and accompanied by two 
of his staff, reined out of the highway and rode 
through the camp. He was immediately recognized, 
and those who caught the word had a good look at the 
man in whom it can truly be said that the army then 
believed, whatever opinions may have afterwards been 
formed. 

On the second, Colonel Fellows was assigned by Gen- 
eral Whipple to the command of a brigade of his division 
of the Army Reserve corps. This brigade was composed 
of four newly arrived regiments, including the Ninth, and 
there were comprised in the command Forts Woodbury 
and Corcoran and three other forts in the immediate 
vicinity, commanding the approaches to the Aqueduct 
and the Chain bridges, for the immediate defence of 
which these regiments had been encamped there. Colo- 
nel Fellows was not the ranking colonel of the brigade, 
but having been in the service for more than a year, as 
well as b}' reason of his West Point training, he was 
thought by General Whipple to be the best qualified for 
the position. 

On assuming command, Colonel Fellows issued the 
following order : 



i862.] FROM CONCORD TO SOUTH MOUNTAIN. 37 

Head-quarters 4th Brigade, Whipple's Division, 

September 2nd, 1862. 
General Orders 

No. I. 

According to General Order No. 25, the undersigned assumes com- 
mand of the 4th Brigade, Whipple's Division. 

Owing to the exigencies of the service, it is of the utmost importance 
that the regiments composing this brigade should be ready to take the 
field at the earliest possible moment ; consequently, when not on 
fatigue duty the regimental commanders will occupy all the time in 
squad, company, and battalion drill, and will likewise establish a 
school for theoretical instruction of officers ; and no officer will be 
excused from drill unless sick or on duty. 

No fire-arms will be discharged in or about the camp without per- 
mission of the commanding officer. 

Hereafter regimental morning reports will be sent to these head- 
quarters before nine o'clock. 

E. O. Fellows, 

Col. gth JV. H. v.. Com' g Brigade. 
George H. Chandler, 

i.f/ Lieut., gt/i N. H. V., Acting A. A. G. 

The supposed exigencies of the service were such, 
however, that not only the Ninth, but all the other regi- 
ments of this brigade, were kept on fatigue duty, as 
already stated ; and as for the discharge of fire-arms, it 
is needless to say that this part of the order was obeyed 
to the very letter, for the ammunition issued to the men 
the day previous did not fit their rifles, and none of the 
right calibre could there be obtained. 

September 3 came the report (which proved to be 
true) that General Pope had been removed at his own 
request, and General McClellan assigned to the com- 
mand. 

About 1,300 prisoners, captured by the Confederates 
at Bull Run the Saturday previous, halted for a while in 
front of the camp. They had been paroled on the bat- 



38 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [September, 

tie-field, and were going to Washington. They seemed 
bright and cheerful, and were quite communicative. 
The one hope expressed was, that they might be 
promptly exchanged and returned to their regiments to 
try it again. To say they were a " hard-looking lot,'' 
would be but to repeat, in uncouth phrase, a very sum- 
mary description of them written at the time, written, 
however, from the standpoint of good clothes, personal 
cleanliness, tented sleep, and abundant rations, the 
standpoint of one all unused to the stern realities which 
make the veteran — the weary march, the blazing sky, 
the shelterless bivouac, the strain of battle, the un- 
quenched thirst and the empty haversack. 

On the 4th there was a partial but welcome relief from 
fatigue duty, and for the first time since leaving Con- 
cord there was opportunity for compan}^ drill by a por- 
tion of the regiment. After this there was no further 
" fatigue" duty, and no present need of more intrench- 
ments, for Washington was now encircled by an army 
of veterans. The Army of the Potomac from the 
Peninsula and the Army of Virginia from the front had 
returned — some of them — to their old camping-grounds 
— back again to their starting-point of five months ago. 
Their journeyings and their achievements, their suc- 
cesses and their failures, have passed into history and 
need not here be recounted ; but whatever they had 
done, or failed to do, they were at least what the men 
of the Ninth New Hampshire were now striving to be- 
come — soldiers. 

The first step, however, was to find out just how much 
had already been accomplished. So there was a muster 
and thorough inspection of the regiment by Lieutenant- 
Colonel Titus, after which drilling began in earnest ; 



i862.] FROM CONCORD TO SOUTH MOUNTAIN. 39 

and it was with many expressions of satisfaction that 
instead of the shovel and the ax the men resumed the 
rifle, and appeared once more, not as gangs of work- 
men, but as a regiment of soldiers. 

For purposes of drill the regiment was very favorably 
situated. The camp-ground was smooth, and hard- 
trodden by many feet. The debris left by former occu- 
pants had been cleared away, and everything arranged 
for comfort and convenience. The first, and as it 
proved the last, dress parade at this camp was held at 
sunset, on the 5th, and this was immediately followed by 
supper from the company cook-houses. Then, until 
tattoo, the time was for rest and recreation, or for reverie, 
which one diarist has thus preserved : 

"The evening was one of the loveliest I have ever 
seen. For hours I sat, or rather reclined, in the door 
of our little tent, with my companions lying around, 
rows of white canvas dwellincrs stretching in regular 
streets on either hand, a beautiful landscape thickly 
dotted with camps, and other martial emblems on 
every side, a bright, full moon bathing all below in 
purest silvery light, while gliding peacefully through 
the soft, deep azure of the gem-decked canopy above ; 
and as I drank in the rare and glorious beauty of 
nature's lavish display, read with introverted eye the 
thickly written tablets of memory, and mused on our 
present, to us still novel, situation, and of what the 
future might have in store, I thought of the dear 
ones left at home, of the scenes and joys I had 
experienced there ; and the tears almost started to my 
eyes unbidden as I thought again of the probabilities 
of my never seeing their renewal. But yet I am not 



40 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [September, 

sorry I am here, and though I would gladly see this 
wicked war immediately closed, and hear the joyous 
order to return, yet for the sake of country and my 
country's honor, I am willing to remain, and to perish 
even, if so it must be." 

The mandatory proverb to boast not one's self of 
to-morrow is peculiarly applicable to the soldier, for 
he it is of all men that knoweth not what a day may 
bring forth. 

The early morning greeting of the 6th was a renewal 
of the order to send out two companies to dig rifle-pits — 
those interminable intrenchments, the cause of "curses 
not loud but deep," as deep, at least, as the pits that 
evoked them. Two companies were already on picket, 
and two others preparing to relieve them. The remain- 
ing four were being put through their soldierly exer- 
cises when, with the promptitude of an " About face," 
there came a transformation not down on the regi- 
mental programme. This was caused by the receipt 
of the following orders : 

Head-Quarters-, Military Defences, 

South-west of the Potomac. 

Arlington, Sept. 6, 1862. 
Special Orders, 
No. 126. 

The order constituting your Brigade is hereby Annulled. 

You will order the Wortcing parties and Pickets from Regiments 

under your Command, to return to their respective Commands 

immediately. 

By command of Brig. Gen. Whipple: 

To Daniel W. Van Horn, 

Col. Fellows, Capt. and A. A. D. C. 

Comd'f^ Brigade. 





Lieut. S. 



Henry Sprague, Co. F. 



Corp. C 



HARLES B. Davis, Co. F. 





\, 



Serot 



,T. James W. LATHE, Co. F. 



T.«im W. Lathe, Co. F. 
Sergt. James w 



i862.] . FROM CONCORD TO SOUTH MOUNTAIN. 4I 

Head-Quarters, Washington, D. C. 

September 6, 1862. 
Special Orders, 

No. 3. 

I . The following mentioned new Regiments are distributed as here- 
inafter indicated, and will proceed to join their respective Corps and 
Stations, viz. : 

Burnside's Corps at Leesboro, Six miles out 7th Street. 
15th and 1 6th Conn. 9th New Hampshire 

35th Massachusetts 17th and 20th Michigan 



* 



The Quartermasters Department will furnish the necessary trans- 
portation to carry into effect the foregoing assignments. The regi- 
ments for Burnside's, Sumner's, and Banks' Corps and Couch's Divi- 
sion will march without tents or knapsacks, and be provided with 
three-days provisions in Haversacks. All the regiments will have 
forty rounds of Ammunition in their Cartridge Boxes. 
By Command of Major Genl. McClellan, 

S. Williams, 
Official. [Signed.] Asst. Adj't Genl. 

Daniel W. Van Horn, Capi. and A. A. D. C. 
To 

Com. Officer, 9th New Hampshire. 

This second order, as received, designated only the 
regiments assigned to the Ninth corps; but in all, 
thirty-six new regiments were distributed among the 
different corps of the army, "and now," writes Cor- 
poral Lathe, in pleased anticipation shared by all, 
"come the hardships and the fame," showing an 
abundant supply of energy, adaptability, and good 
humor, — levers which had the power to lighten if not re- 
move the burden of many a heavy hour in this new, rough 
manner of living. Indeed, that they were prominent 
characteristics amongr the men of the Ninth, was shown in 
the rapidity with which a little practice developed and 



42 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [September, 

increased the many contrivances to insure comfort, in 
spite of so much that was adverse. 

Preparatory to this movement the regiment received 
its first issue of hard bread. Previous to this time it 
had been supplied with soft bread from the government 
bakeries in Washington, — "soft tack" it was called, as 
distinguished from "hard tack,"' to which the men now 
had their first introduction, and of which the prescribed 
three-days rations were issued and stowed away in haver- 
sacks. 

Leaving Quartermaster Hutchins in charge of the 
abandoned camp, with its tents all standing, and the 
band and two men detailed from each company to guard 
it and await further orders, by three in the afternoon the 
regiment was on the move, in light marching order, — all 
the lighter from the absence of the prescribed " forty 
rounds" in the cartridge boxes. 

Crossing the Aqueduct bridge and passing through 
Georgetown, the regiment rested for a while in Wash- 
ington. Then, having marched the designated " six 
miles out Seventh street," it was discovered that Lees- 
boro was still fully three miles away. The day was 
hot, the dust deep, and it was not until about eight 
o'clock that the regiment turned into a beautiful 
grove, appropriately named Brightwood. Here, upon 
the ground, without other shelter than that afforded 
by the friendly and protecting trees, the tired men 
slept the sleep of the soldier. 

This, their first night by blazing bivouac fires, was 
one to linger long in the memory of those spared by the 
fortunes of war, one of whom thus recorded it at the 
time : 



i862.] FROM CONCORD TO SOUTH MOUNTAIN. 43 

"The scene in the early evening was romantic in the 
extreme. It was a warm, bright, lovely night, but in 
the shadow of the trees dark enough to have the numer- 
ous fires, soon kindled by the soldiers, show to good 
advantage. Gleaming among these in every direction 
were the stacks of polished muskets, and scattered 
among them the wearied men, wrapped in their blankets 
for the night's repose. Beyond the reach of their rays, 
loomed up the shadows, — hobgoblin, dark, and gloomy 
from the contrast, while through the mixed canopy of 
green and blue twinkled coquettishly the glimmering 
stars. 

"All in all, it was to me at least a weird, novel, 3'et 
interesting spectacle ; and it was long before the bland- 
ishments of Morpheus could close my eyes upon its 
beauty." 

Starting soon after daylight the next morning, about 
eight o'clock the regiment encamped, or rather bivou- 
acked again, in a beautiful grove at a fork in the road 
near an old tumble-down tavern. This, with two dwel- 
ling-houses looking old and rusty, and the accompany- 
ing outbuildings looking older and rustier, was Leesboro. 

As the head of the column approached the town, place, 
village, or whatever the term by which such a locality 
might properly be designated. General Burnside was 
met on the road, and Colonel Fellows, saluting, at once 
reported to him. The general recognized him immedi- 
ately (they had been schoolmates at West Point), and 
greeting him cordially said, — "You know General 
Reno?"' The colonel replied in the affirmative; and 
General Burnside said, " Report to Reno." This hav- 
ing been done, General Reno, in turn, directed Colonel 



44 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [September, 

Fellows to report to Colonel Nagle, commanding the 
First brigade of the Second (Sturgis's) division. 

The first necessity, however, was to get a supply of 
ammunition to fit the rifles ; and as none could there be 
had of the right calibre, permission was obtained from 
General Reno to send back for it before reporting to 
Colonel Nagle. Lieutenant-Colonel Titus was therefore 
detailed to go back to Washington to get the ammuni- 
tion, to see to the packing up and storing of the surplus 
baggage left behind at the old camp on Arlington 
Heights, and to wind up and bring up the rear gener- 
ally — that is, the knapsacks, overcoats, and the men left 
in camp — not the stragglers, for there had been no strag- 
gling. The rear-guard had done its; duty under the eye 
of the lieutenant-colonel, who had ridden much of the 
time in rear of the column, and had determined at the 
outset that the regiment should not fall into that per- 
nicious habit. 

Some of the other regiments had not been so fortu- 
nate in this- respect, for scores of stragglers were seen 
all alonefthe road. One incident in this connection was 
somewhat amusing. Several regiments had followed 
the Ninth out from Washington, and later in the day 
one of them, or rather a melancholy-looking remnant of 
it, went into camp near by. One of its lagging, self- 
deployed members, meeting General Burnside, who had 
ridden back along the road, and making his best salute, 
boldly inquired if he had seen his regiment (naming it) 
anywhere. "Oh, yes," replied the general blandly, 
and in his characteristic ofl'hand manner, "you'll find 
them all the way from here to Washington ! " 

So sudden and unexpected had been the departure 
from Arlington, that some of the officers were absent in 




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the city. Adjutant Chandler, who had just purchased 
a horse, had gone for the equipments and to pay some 
visits, more especially to meet his old college classmate, 
Captain Patterson (afterwards Colonel), of the Second, 
and so was dressed in his best. Starting to return, he 
met the regiment, and wheeling his horse accompanied 
it. He was the recipient of not a little good-natured 
banter, for, like the brave knight in the nursery riddle, 

he was 

"AH saddled, all bridled, all fit for the fight ;" 

and it was suggested that his bright new uniform was 
just the thing, not only for active campaigning but as an 
attractive mark for some hostile sharpshooter. 

Captains Alexander and Whitfield were also absent, 
their companies having been detailed for fatigue or 
picket. Their experiences are related by the former : 

"Yesterday, while I was at Washington, the regiment 
received orders to move. When I returned to camp 
about six o'clock, I found they had left; the tents and 
baggage were left with two men from each company, to 
gulrd'them and assist the quartermaster in packing up. 
Three days' rations had been given out. My orderly 
sergeant was with me, and also one captain who had 
been away during the day. The quartermaster told me 
the recriment had started for Leesboro, about five miles 
from Washington. I packed my blanket, took rations 
in my haversack, and started. We went to Washington 
and inquired the way to Leesboro. No one knew, or 
had ever heard of such a place, but from some persons 
we met we found the regiment went up Seventh street 
so we started. We walked about five miles, but could 
find no trace of them. So many regiments had passed 



4^ ^INTH NE W HAMPSHIRE. 



[September, 



and were passing that no one knew anything about it. 
Still, we thought we were on the right road, for the 
whole army seemed to be moving that way. After 
walking until about half-past eleven, we thought we had 
better turn in and wait until morning ; so we found an 
empty wagon, which we got into, and slept finely until 
six this morning [September 7], when we started. The 
road was full of infantry, artillery, cavalry, and baggage 
wagons. They had been passing all night, but we had 
slept so soundly we had not heard them. After walk- 
ing about five miles further we overtook our regiment, 
encamped in a fine grove." 

The observations which follow, at a later day would 
hardly have been made. 

"No one can tell one day where he may be the next. 
The old regiments say that since they left the Peninsula 
they have not remained two nights in a place. The 
New Hampshire Fifth and the battery do not look much 
as they did when they left the state. All the troops I 
have seen, with the exception of the new regiments, are 
ragged, dirty, dressed in every kind of clothes imagin- 
able, the officers hardly distinguishable from the men." 

These ofl:icers were in the same plight as Adjutant 
Chandler,— resplendent in new uniforms, as much out 
of keeping with their surroundings and duties as a Sun- 
day suit in a coal-pit; but the captain thus closes the 
record for the day : 

" I have got me a blouse and an old hat that one of 
the soldiers threw away, and feel now as dirty and 
happy as the rest of them." 



i862.] FROM CONCORD TO SOUTH MOUNTAIN. 47 

That they had been assigned to Burnside's corps was 
soon known throughout the regiment. So, too, that 
Colonel Fellows had reported to General Burnside, for 
the men on the right had seen the meeting between them, 
and had noted the wave of the hand by which the gen- 
eral had designated the camping-ground. So, when 
later in the day he rode with his staff past the camp, 
the men were ready to greet him with three rousmg 
cheers, for as a general he was held in especially high 
regard in New England, and at that period of general 
disaster all the more so, by reason of his recent suc- 
cesses in North Carolina. They were also ready m 
position, for this being in fact, as well as in name, a day 
of rest, they had little to do except to range themselves 
along the fence by the roadside, and observe the almost 
continuous line of passing troops and trains. 

An important feature of this procession was the dif- 
ferent generals with their staffs,-riding usually at the 
head of their respective commands; and prominent 
among them was one, in appearance the hear, rdcal ot 
a soldier, so familiar in picture that, like Burnside, he 
was immediately recognized; and in silent but none he 
less deep admiration, the men saw pass before them the 
famous ' ' Fighting Joe Hooker." Potomac 

By the order consolidating the Army of the Potomac 
and the Army of Virginia, issued by General Halleck 
September 5, General Hooker had been assigi^ed to 
the command of the Fifth corps in place of Gen. Fitz 
John Porter, relieved. But the following day he wa 
itrgned by General McClellan to the Third coi-ps o 
the Army of Virginia, previously c— ded by Gen 
eral McDowell; and on this day he issued his o da 
assuming command. This corps, upon the consohda- 



48 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [September, 

tion of the two armies, became the First corps of the 
Army of the Potomac. 

General Sturgis, who had previously served under 
General Sigel, and who had also been assigned by 
General Halleck to the Fifth corps, was on this day 
ordered by General McClellan to report to General 
Burnside, and was assigned to the Second division, 
of which he immediately assumed command ; and 
although by the order he was only "temporarily 
relieved from duty witli Porter's corps," he thereafter 
remained permanently attached to the Burnside corps. 

General Reno, who had commanded the Ninth corps 
in Virginia under General Pope, now resumed the com- 
mand, and General Burnside was virtually in command 
of both the First and Ninth corps:, which then became the 
right wing of the army, although the formal order so 
assigning him was only issued on the day of the Battle of 
South Mountain. 

On the 8th, their near neighbors, the Thirty-tifth 
Massachusetts, moved forward a short distance to join, 
their brigade, but the Ninth New Hampshire still 
remained in camp, if camp it could be called. It was 
rumored that the Confederates had crossed into Mary- 
land, and the road was full of troops moving to the front. 
Indeed, since the first day at Arlington, it had been the 
fortune of the regiment to see others upon the march 
almost continuously, — first, towards Bull Run ; then in the 
opposite direction, with increased and increasing numbers, 
until they themselves mingled with and became a part of 
the flowing, martial current ; and now, when they were 
stranded, as it were, upon the brink, it was still stream- 
ing on, until to their unpractised eyes it seemed as if the 
whole army was passing in irregular review. 



i862.] FROM CONCORD TO SOUTH MOUNTAIN. 



49 



Ammunition to fit the rifles was found in the arsenal at 
Washington, but to get that of a special calibre for a 
single regiment of the army, at that time of hurry and 
pressure, was not accomplished in haste, nor without 
perseverance and some diplomacy (exercised by Colonel 
Titus) ; and then it must come through the " regular 
channel," the ordnance officers of the division and bri- 
gade. But all difficulties were finally overcome, and 
it was with a feeling of relief that the wagons contain- 
ing it were seen moving up Seventh street. 

At the old camp, however, there was longer delay from 
lack of transportation. For it must not be forgotten that 
Stuart, Mosby, and Stonewall Jackson had been making 
heavy requisitions on our army transportation, for Con- 
federate use as well as for bonfires. At any rate, the 
quartermaster was unable to procure it for all the bag- 
gage he was expected to bring up, and word was sen 
to the regiment to that effect. Besides, in a general 
order prescribing the amount of baggage to be car- 
ried, that of the officers of a company was limited to 
one small trunk. So, on the morning of the 9th, 
several of the officers returned for the purpose of 
reducing the baggage, — tramping to Silver Spring, 
where they hired a conveyance to Washington. 

Having repacked their baggage, in compliance with 
orders if not to their satisfaction, some of the officers 
wished to remain and go to the theatre — a rare treat for 
country boys. The lieutenant-colonel gave them per- 
mission to do so, provided they would report at Lees- 
boro by six o'clock the next morning. That they 
reported promptly on time was gratifying then, and it is 
equally so now to be assured, as recorded by Captain 
Alexander at the time, that they "went to Ford's theatre 

IV 



50 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [September, 

and listened to two fine plays, well acted, — ' Our Ameri- 
can Cousin,' and ' Dot : or The Cricket on the Hearth.'" 

The ammunition was received as expected, but with 
waiting lor the baggage, the regiment did not start until 
four o'clock. Marching about five miles, it bivou- 
acked for the night in an orchard near Mechanicsville. 
Shelter tents had been distributed at Leesboro, but the 
night being clear, and the men having slept since 
leaving Arlington with no other protection than their 
blankets, very few took the trouble to set them up, 
and they merely served the convenient purpose of an 
extra blanket. 

On the morning of the nth they started early, and at 
dark turned into a pasture-field near the little village of 
Damascus. Every day now was adding some new 
experience, which from its very newness made a more 
lasting impression than events of greater importance at 
a later period. For instance, this was the first day of 
marching in the rain and mud, and disagreeable and 
tiresome as it was, it was preferable to marching in the 
heat and dust. But a rainy night was a difi'erent matter, 
and the shelter tent, which at first had been an object of 
ridicule, if not of contempt, was now appreciated ; and 
the kennel-like structures soon dotted the field. 

There was discomfort enough at the best, for though 
the little "shelter" gave protection from the rain which 
was still falling, it could not protect from that which had 
already fallen, and which soon saturated the clothing of 
the men from the ground on which they lay. Nor was 
the bivouac otherwise a bed of roses, for the field proved 
to be a brier-patcli, and caused many an emphatic excla- 
mation, for a veritable virago could hardly have resented 
an intrusion more pointedly or emphatically ; but the sol- 



iS62.] FROM CONCORD TO SOUTH MOUNTAIN. 51 

dier's simple record is, that " tired and footsore, we spread 
our tents and crawled in without making any coffee, 
thankful even for the opportunity to lie down on wet brier 
bushes." 

The author of the familiar lines about man's wanting 
but little here below may have been, as he has been 
called, an "inspired idiot;" but let the man be a soldier, 
and he will soon realize that there is nothing of idiocy in 
that sentiment as applied to what he carries on the 
march. 

At Concord, from Camp Colby to the cars, the men 
had marched bravely and unfalteringly ; the morning 
was cool, the air bracing, the distance short, the step 
timed by the drum-beat, and when nearing the end, as 
their unwonted burdens began to bear heavily, they 
were marvellously lightened by martial strains and the 
plaudits of admiring thousands ; few there were who 
would not have dropped in the ranks rather than out of 
them, and the veriest plodder was carried along like a 
log by the current, — like the man with the famous cork 
leg, they could not even stop ; but once in Washing- 
ton, from the station to Camp Chase all this was 
changed, in fact, directly reversed. The morning was 
hot, the air enervating, the distance doubled, the music, 
the on-looking, and the admiration at the beginning, and 
not the end, of the march ; and when it was all ended — 
and long before — the men began to stagger to the side- 
walk, and even with those who kept the ranks at every 
step the weight of the distended knapsack seemed to 
increase in creometrical ratio, until it bore down like the 
load of an Atlas. The men of Company E hired a job 
wagon to haul their knapsacks to camp. Many were 
prostrated by the heat, — Sergeant Rand of Company I, 



52 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [September, 

SO that he never recovered from its effects ; and Httle 
Charley Blaisdell of Company F was not the only one 
who "sweat out some of his patriotism," although the 
only one who was heard to so quaintly express it. Not 
half the men were in line at the end of the march, and 
had it continued much longer the body of the regiment 
would have entirely disappeared, leaving only an inter- 
mingled head and tail ; and all because of the knap- 
sack. 

On the march to Leesboro this burden was left behind ; 
and when brought up with the other baggage the men 
were given their choice, to keep them or send them back 
for storage, taking whatever articles seemed necessary 
and could be carried without them. Some did the latter, 
as they were advised, but the most preferred to keep 
them, — they were so convenient and their precious con- 
tents seemed so indispensable. As the result of this 
day's experience, however, on a fifteen-mile march, 
nearly all availed themselves of the opportunity to send 
them back the next morning, and their overcoats as well. 
They began to realize how little was absolutely neces- 
sary, — and with that little rolled in the indispensable blan- 
ket, and this again, along with the "shelter," in the 
almost equally indispensable rubber blanket, the roll 
twisted, tied together at the ends, and slung over the 
shoulder, they were ready for the march, comparatively 
unincumbered. 

The one small trunk for the three officers of a com- 
pany was also sent back by order, so that the line offi- 
cers, except those who had servants to " tote " for them, 
were no better off in respect to transportation than the 
men. Indeed, they had a little more to carry, for every 
officer had a whole tent, or two pieces of shelter, to him- 



i862.] FROM CONCORD TO SOUTH MOUNTAIN. 53 

self. There was, however, a very great difference he- 
tween carrying a sword and pistol and a gun and cart- 
ridge box with its forty rounds. 

On the 1 2th the Ninth passed over ground that had 
been occupied the day before by the enemy's pickets, 
and about four in the afternoon halted at Newmarket, 
where it had been ordered to join the brigade, only to 
learn that the brigade had gone forward, by reason of a 
fight that was in progress at the river about four miles 
beyond. This was somewhat exciting, as well as to 
learn that there had been an actual skirmish at this very 
place the day before, between the Union and the Confed- 
erate cavalry. After waiting more than an hour for an 
ammunition train to pass, the regiment filed into the road 
in its rear, but were soon ordered to take the side of the 
road to make room for the trains and the cavalry. 

Marching a column of troops along the roadside, while 
not to be preferred, can yet be done without much diffi- 
cult3% in the daytime ; but at night it is a very different 
matter. The sun had already sunk behind the Catoctin 
range, and although the brigade was presumably not 
far away — for a large body of troops was encamped in 
full view just across the Monocacy in the valley below, — 
Colonel Fellows thought it best to go no farther that 
night. So the regiment turned into a field which had 
served as a hostile camping-ground the previous night, 
and from which the enemy had retired but a few hours 
before. The reported fight at this point, by reason of 
which the brigade had been ordered forward, was but an 
artillery duel between the advance and rear guards of the 
respective armies, with no casualties reported. A house 
near by that had lost part of its chimney and been other- 
wise damaged by a bursting shell, was an object of curi- 



54 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [September, 

osity ; and the men began to feel that serious business 
was close at hand. 

The camp was on high ground overlooking the valley 
below, and as the thousands of camp-fires gleamed 
faintly at first and gradually brightened in the deepening 
twilight, the scene, half illumined by the moon riding 
high in the heavens, was one long to be remembered, 
though no description of it seems to have been attempted 
at the time. The student-soldier, fresh from college, is 
simply reminded of the descriptions given by Homer 
andXenophon, while the poetic diarist, at the end of a 
hard day's march on a ration of "but six hard-tack," 
and whose "supper consisted of half a cracker," philo- 
sophically concludes that "rest and sleep are better than 
supper." 

Not so with all, however. " How are you getting 
on, Howard?" asks the quondam commissary of his 
chevroned assistant, who is preparing the dual evening 
meal and gazing somewhat ruefully at the contents of a 
tin cup simmering over a solitary blaze between two 
rails, on which it was resting. "Well," replies the 
dispenser of hard-tack in his characteristically deliber- 
ate utterance, so indicative of his everlasting relia- 
bility, "I started to make some tea, but I guess it'll 
turn out a poultice." It is scarcely necessary to add 
that the worthy commissary sergeant, in concocting his 
favorite beverage thereafter, made the proportion of tea 
leaves to water somewhat less than a half-pound to a 
pint. 

An amusing incident occurred that afternoon while the 
regiment was at a halt : In a passing drove of govern- 
ment cattle was an unruly bull. He was giving the dro- 
ver so much trouble that in reply to some chaffing inqui- 



i862.] FROM CONCORD TO SOUTH MOUNTAIN. 55 

ries he told the boys they might have him if they could 
catch him. No sooner said than done. The turbulent 
beast was immediately surrounded and captured, and in 
less than thirty minutes his inanimate carcass, as neatly 
dressed as if for some fashionable butcher's shop, was 
ready for dissection and distribution as an extra ration of 
fresh beef. It is at such times that those innate qualities 
which mark one as a leader of men involuntarily shine 
forth. It was Bucknam of Company I and Reuben 
Wentworth of Company K who literally took the bull by 
the horns ; and the former subsequently received his mer- 
ited reward by being promoted to the nominal rank of 
brigade butcher — an office with certain gastronomical 
perquisites, if no increase of pay. 

September 13, and the regimental poet, though unin- 
spired b}' the sublunary scene of the previous night, thus 
greets the morning : 

"A beautiful scene spreads out before me. We are 
on a hill. Below, and almost at our feet, flows the 
Monocacy, its placid waters reminding me of my own 
native Connecticut. On the other side of the stream is 
encamped a large army, among which is the brigade to 
which we have been assigned, and which we expect to 
join to-day. In the distance may be seen hills and 
mountains not unlike those of my own New England." 

And then, descending from the sublime, — 

" Had a plate of boiled rice for breakfast." 

This valley of the Monocacy, with its unwonted peo- 
pling and particularly its winding river, — so placid and 
so reminiscent in the morning — was evidently one ot 



56 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [September, 

those views to which distance lends enchantment : for in 
the evening, to the same recording spirit, it was merely 
a "creek," in which he "took a bath and washed his 
shirt;'' while another "took a bath and washed his sin- 
gle shirt in the river, a shallow, stony-bottomed, dirty- 
looking stream." These were but two, however, out of 
hundreds in the regiment, and of many thousands in all, 
who gladly availed themselves of the opportunity to do 
the same. 

Previous to this bathing and laundering the Ninth had 
joined the brigade. In the morning the road was clear, 
and as the column neared the bridge, not far away could 
be seen the head-quarters of General Reno. Halting the 
regiment and riding up, Colonel Fellows found the gen- 
eral at breakfast in his tent with some of his staff. 
" Glad to see you, Colonel. Report to General Sturgis. 
You know Sturgis?" "Oh, yes; I know Sturgis," 
replied Colonel Fellows. Crossing the massive stone 
structure which spanned the Monocacy, General Sturgis 
was found at a little distance on the other side. He at 
once recognized Colonel Fellows, gave him a cordial 
greeting, and directed him to report to Colonel Nagle, 
as General Reno had previously done at Leesboro. 
Colonel Nagle was close at hand, the last of the report- 
ing was quickly done, and the Ninth was soon alongside 
the Sixth New Hampshire and among home friends. 
These two regiments, with the Forty-eighth Pennsylva- 
nia and the Second Maryland, then constituted the bri- 
gade in which the Ninth remained during its whole term 
of service (although its number was afterwards changed), 
the First Brigade of the Second division. 

Their friends and neighbors of the Sixth had some- 
thing to tell of their recent experiences at the Second 



i862.] FROM CONCORD TO SOUTH MOUNTAIN. 57 

Bull Run, where they had suffered severely. The men 
were also interested in the details of the operations of 
the day before, when our Kanawha division had the 
advance at the bridge and in Frederick City. 

About noon the regimental band came up. Left 
behind at Arlington, they had performed the duties of 
camp guard (if they had not observed its formalizes ) 
until the 9th, when, given a turn at fatigue duty, they 
commenced taking down and packing up the tents. 
Having finished this work the next day, they were 
" ordered" to rejoin the regiment, — by whom, does not 
appear, but presumably by General Whipple. Their 
pilgrimage is thus recorded by Bailey, their diarist in E 
flat: 

"Sept. 10. We started about two o'clock, without 
rations or tents, marching until night, and stopping at 
a country store, where we succeeded in buying cake 
and such trash. Engaged lodging for the night, 
eleven of us sleeping in three beds. Having marched 
some ten miles in our thin canvas shoes on the hard, 
uneven turnpike, we are footsore and weary, and ready 
to sleep anywhere. 

"Sept. II. Once more on the march at seven o'clock, 
all keeping together throughout the day. At dark found 
lodging in a saw-mill. Everybody's feet sore. 

"Sept. 12. All started at sunrise. Graves and myself 
became separated from the othei-s, and trudged along 
throughout the day. At dark, camped under a tree near 
the turnpike. Having marched some fifteen miles, with 
only a few ears of green corn for grub, and our feet 
covered with blisters, we retired cross and ugly. 

" Sept. 13. We were up at daylight and on the move 



58 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [September, 

again, marching until noon, when we reached the army, 
quietly resting on the banks of the Monocacy river. 
Found our regiment readily. The rest of the band soon 
arrived." 

The arrival of the band was hailed with delight by the 
men, and was especially gratifying to Colonel Fellows. 
Soon they were marshalled in front of his quarters, and 
the valley of the Monocacy was re-echoing to the strains 
of martial music. 

At four o'clock the Ninth showed up in brigade line for 
the first time, and with the advantage of numbers if not 
experience, for it doubled the length of the line. The 
Ninth likewise possessed the only band in the brigade, 
a fact which in the march through the city was fully 
appreciated. 

A description of this march written by the scholarly 
historian of the Second corps, which had preceded the 
Ninth corps, is equally applicable : 

"Probably no soldier who entered Frederick on the 
morning of the 13th will ever forget the cordial wel- 
come with which the rescuing army was received by 
the loyal inhabitants. . . . Here, in the rich valley 
of the Monocacy, shut in by low mountains of surpassing 
grace of outline, all nature was in bloom ; the signs of 
comfort and opulence met the eye on every side ; while 
as the full brigades, . . .in perfect order and all 
the pomp of war, witii glittering staffs and proud com- 
manders, . . . pressed through the quaint and beau- 
tiful town, the streets resounded with applause, and from 
the balcony and window fair faces smiled, and handker- 
chiefs and scarfs waved to greet the army of the Union. 
Whether the ancient and apocryphal Barbara Frietchie 



iS62.] FROM CONCORD TO SOUTH MOUNTAIN. 59 

had sufficiently recovered from the sentimental shock of 
a poetical shower of imaginary musket balls to appear 
again on this occasion may be doubted ; but many an 
honest and many a fair countenance of patriot man and 
patriot woman looked out upon the brave array 
with smiles and tears of gratitude and joy. Amid all 
that was desolate and gloomy, amid all that was harsh 
and terrible, in the service these soldiers of the Union 
were called to render, that bright day of September 13, 
1862, that gracious scene of natural beauty and waving 
crops, that quaint and charming southern city, that 
friendly greeting, form a picture which can never pass 
out of the memory of any whose fortune it was to enter 
Frederick town that day." 

Through the city, beyond the city, along the flinty 
and dusty pike, the line drags wearily along. The 
Catoctins grow nearer ; the sun sinks behind them ; 
the men clamber up the steep ascent ; the moon is 
high above them ; — and still they plod along in 
strange, weird, and ghostly procession. They pass 
the summit, and begin the descent. Far as the eye 
can reach, the spectral line, but dimly described in the 
distance, stretches away in the valley before them, as 
before it had lengthened behind. No pen can describe 
the scene ; the pencil of a Dore only, could depict it. 
But midnight approaches ; the line dissolves ; the men 
stumble into an adjacent field, drop upon the restful 
ground, — and all is forgotten. 



CHAPTER III. 
The Battle of South Mountain. 

The Ninth New Hampshire was on the eve of its first 
battle, and the occasion could not fail to be a momentous 
one, for probably no other event stands out more dis- 
tinctly in a soldier's memory than the time when he first 
takes the field to do battle with his fellow-man for life 
and liberty. Three weeks had not elapsed since the 
regiment had left home and friends behind ; they had 
experienced some discomforts, but the actual hardships 
of an active campaign were yet to be realized. To-night 
they lie wrapped in heavy slumber, a new and untried 
regiment ; to-morrow, with its baptism of fire and blood, 
will come and do its work, and when the Ninth again 
lie down to rest it will be with the proud consciousness 
that they have proved themselves men. 

It is to be remembered that the Ninth regiment was 
only a cog in one of the great wheels of the machinery 
of war, and to more definitely locate its positions and 
'comprehend the magnitude of the operations in which it 
bore a part, a general understanding of the movements 
of the army is necessary, to fully realize what it meant 
to be even a factor in the great whole. 

By the order of September 6 the Ninth regiment had 
been assigned to Burnside's corps, and was now attached 
to the First brigade of the Second division of the famous 
Ninth corps — the " wandering Ithacans" of the Rebel- 
lion, the corps " whose dead lie buried in seven states'' — 



i862.] THE BATTLE OF SOUTH MOUNTAIN. 6l 

the corps in which the Ninth New Hampshire won its 
laurels at South Mountain, Antietam, and Fredericks- 
burg, sharing its fortunes at Newport News and in Cen- 
tral Kentucky, at the siege and capture of Vicksburg 
and Jackson, in the perilous march across the Cumber- 
land mountains, through all its wanderings and vicissi- 
tudes until, in the spring of 1865, Lee surrendered to 
Grant and the Rebellion was at an end. 

The army commanded by General McClellan in the 
early days of September comprised the First corps, 
under General Hooker ; the Second corps, under Sum- 
ner ; one division of the Fourth corps, under Couch, 
which was attached to the Sixth corps, under Franklin ; 
the Ninth corps, under Reno, and the Twelfth corps, 
under Mansfield.- The First and Ninth corps formed 
the right wing, under General Burnside ; the Second 
and Twelfth corps, the centre, under General Sum- 
ner; and the commands under General Franklin, the 
left wing. To these was added, on September 11, 
the Fifth corps, under General Fitz-John Porter. 

Opposed to these forces was the Confederate command 
of General Lee, which consisted of Longstreet's division, 
of twenty brigades ; Jackson's division, of fourteen bri- 
gades ; D. H. Hill's division, of five brigades; the 
unattached brigade of Evans, and a considerable force 
of cavalry and artillery. 

In his official report dated March 6, 1863, General 
Lee thus states the reasons for his movements at this 
stage of the campaign : 

"The armies of Generals McClellan and Pope had 
now been brought back to the point from which they 
set out on the campaigns of the spring and summer. 



62 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [September, 

The objects of those campaigns had been frustrated, 
and the designs of the enemy on the coast of North 
Carolina and in western Virginia thwarted by the 
withdrawal of the main body of his forces from those 
regions. North-eastern Virginia was freed from the 
presence of Federal soldiers up to the intrenchments 
of Washington, and soon after the arrival of the army 
at Leesburg information was received that the troops 
which had occupied Winchester had retired to Har- 
per's Ferry and Martinsburg. The war was thus trans- 
ferred from the interior to the frontier, and the sup- 
plies of rich and productive districts made accessible 
to our army. To prolong a state of affairs in every 
way desirable, and not to permit the season for active 
operations to pass without endeavoring, to inflict further 
injury upon the enemy, the best course appeared to be 
the transfer of the army into Maryland. Although not 
properly equipped for invasion, lacking much of the 
material of war, and feeble in transportation, the troops 
poorly provided with clothing, and thousands of them 
destitute of shoes, it was yet believed to be strong 
enough to detain the enemy upon the northern frontier 
until the approach of winter should render his advance 
into Virginia difficult, if not impracticable. The condi- 
tion of Maryland encouraged the belief that the pres- 
ence of our army, however inferior to that of the 
enemy, would induce the Washington government to 
retain all its available force to provide against contin- 
gencies which its course toward the people of that state 
gave it reason to apprehend. At the same time it was 
hoped that military success miglit atTord us an oppor- 
tunity to aid the citizens of Maryland in any efforts 
they might be disposed to make to recover their liber- 



i862.] THE BATTLE OF SOUTH MOUNTAIN. 63 

ties. The difficulties that surrounded them were fully 
appreciated, and we expected to derive more assistance 
in the attainment of our object from the just fears of the 
Washington government, than from active demonstration 
on the part of the people, — unless success should enable 
us to give them assurance of continued protection. 

"Influenced by these considerations, the army was 
put in motion, D. H. Hill's division, which had joined us 
on the 2d, being in advance, and between September 
4 and 7 crossed the Potomac at the fords near Leesburg, 
and encamped in the vicinity of Fredericktown. 

" It was decided to cross the Potomac east of the Blue 
Ridge, in order, by threatening Washington and Balti- 
more, to cause the enemy to withdraw from the south 
bank, where his presence endangered our communica- 
tions and the safety of those engaged in the removal of 
our wounded and the captured property from the late 
battle-fields. Having accomplished this result, it was 
proposed to move the army into western Maryland, 
establish our communications with Richmond through 
the valley of the Shenandoah, and by threatening Penn- 
sylvania induce the enemy to follow, and thus draw him 
from his base of supplies." 

It was this proposed plan of operations which had so 
aroused the North and led to the sending to the front of 
all the available troops. Events proved, however, that 
General Lee was mistaken in at least part of his prem- 
ises. 

The 7th of September found the Southern army all on 
Maryland soil, but when, on the following day, from his 
head-quarters at Frederick, General Lee issued a procla- 
mation to the people of the state, assuming the tone of a 



64 NINTH NE^ HAMPSHIRE. [September, 

liberator and inviting them to espouse the cause of the 
South, the response was by no means encouraging, for 
the people of the state at large were not desirous of see- 
ing their fair fields laid waste by the tramp of opposing 
armies, however strong might be their sympathy with 
either side. 

It was on the 9th of September that General Lee 
issued the famous "lost order," the finding of which 
enabled General McClellan to check, if he could not 
forestall, the plans of the Confederate commander. 
How the order was found, and the manner in which it 
reached General McClellan, has been graphically and 
officially told by Brevet Brigadier-General Silas Col- 
grove : 

"The Twelfth Army corps arrived at Frederick, 
Maryland, about noon on the 13th of September, 1862. 
The Twenty-seventh Indiana volunteers, of which I was 
colonel at that date, belonged to the Third brigade, 
First division, of that corps. 

" We stacked arms on the same ground that had been 
occupied by Gen. D. H. Hill's division the evening 
before. 

"Within a very few minutes after halting, the order 
was brought to me by First Sergeant John M. Bloss and 
Private B. W. Mitchell, of Company F, Twenty-seventh 
Indiana volunteers, who stated that it was found by Pri- 
vate Mitchell near where they had stacked arms. When 
I received the order it was wrapped around three cigars, 
and Private Mitchell stated that it was in that condition 
when found by him. 

"General A. S. Williams was in command of our 
division. I immediately took the order to his head-quar- 




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Sergt. Albert B. Stearns, Co. E. 



Corp. Elmer Bragg, Co. E. 




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Corp. Charles O. Hurlbutt, Co. E. 



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1 862.] THE BATTLE OF SOUTH MOUNTAIN. 65 

ters, and delivered it to Col. E. S. Pittman, General 
Williams's adjutant-general. 

"The order was signed by Colonel Chilton, General 
Lee's adjutant-general, and the signature was at once 
recognized by Colonel Pittman, who had served with 
Colonel Chilton at Detroit, Mich., before the war, and 
was acquainted with his handwriting. It was at once 
taken to General McClellan's head-quarters by Colonel 
Pittman. It was a general order giving directions for the 
movement of Lee's entire army, designating the route and 
objective point of each corps. Within an hour after find- 
ing the despatch, General McClellan's whole army was on 
the move, and the enemy were overtaken the next day, 
the 14th, at South Mountain, and the battle of that name 
was fought." 

So clearly does this order map out the line of opera- 
tions for the next few days, that it is here inserted in full : 

Head-quarters Army of Northern Virginia, 

September 9th, 1862. 
Special Orders, 

No. 191. 

The army will resume its march to-morrow, taking the Hagerstown 
road. General Jackson's command will form the advance, and after 
passing IMiddletown, with such portions as he may select, take the 
route towards Sharpsburg, cross the Potomac at the most convenient 
point, and by Friday night take possession of the Baltimore & Ohio 
railroad, capture such of the enemy as may be at Martinsburg, and 
intercept such as may attempt to escape from Harper's Ferry. 

General Longstreet's command will pursue the same road as faj: as 
Boonsboro', where it will halt with the reservfe, supply and baggage 
trains of the army. 

General McLaws, with his own division and that of Gen. R. H. A. 
Anderson, willfollow General Longstreet ; on reaching Middletown he 
will take the route to Harper's Ferry, and by Friday morning possess 

V 



66 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [September, 

himself of Maryland Heights, and endeavor to capture the enemy at 
Harper's Ferry and vicinity. 

General Walker, with his division, after accomplishing the object in 
which he is now engaged, will cross the Potomac at Cheek's Ford, 
ascend its right bank to Lovettsville, take possession of Loudon 
Heights, if practicable, by Friday morning, Keyes's Ford on his left, 
and the road between the end of the mountain and the Potomac on his 
right. He will, as far as practicable, co-operate with General McLaws 
and General Jackson in intercepting the retreat of the enemy. 

Gen. D. H. Hill's division will form the rear guard of the army, 
pursuing the road taken by the main body. The reserve artillery, 
ordnance, and supply trains, etc., will precede General Hill. 

General Stuart will detach a squadron of cavalry to accompany the 
commands of Generals Longstreet, Jackson, and McLaw's, and, with 
the main body of the cavalry, will cover the route of the army and 
bring up all stragglers that may have been left behind. 

The commands of Generals Jackson, McLaws, and Walker, after 
accomplishing the objects for which they have been detached, will join 
the main body of the army at Boonsboro' or Hagerstown. 

Each regiment on the march will habitually carry its axes in the reg- 
imental ordnance-wagon, for use of the men at their encampments, to 

procure wood, etc. 

By command of General R. E. Lee. 

R. H. Chilton, Assistant Adjutant-General. 

Major-General D. H. Hill, commanding division. 

This order was afterwards modified by General Lee so 
as to place Longstreet at Hagerstown, thirteen miles 
beyond. 

It was on the basis of a knowledge of the enemy's 
movements furnished by this order that the following 
despatch was penned : 

Head-quarters, Frederick, September 13, 1862, 12 m. 

(Received 2 :35 a. m., September 14.) 
To THE President : 

I have the whole rebel force in front of me, but am confident, and 
no time shall be lost. I have a difficult task to perform, but with 



i862.] THE BATTLE OF SOUTH MOUNTAIN. 67 

God's blessing will accomplish it. I think Lee has made a gross mis- 
take, and that he will be severely punished for it. The army is in 
motion as rapidly as possible. I hope for a great success if the plans 
of the rebels remain unchanged. 

We have possession of Catoctin. I have all the plans of the rebels, 
and will catch them in their own trap if my men are equal to the emer- 
gency. I now feel that I can count on them as of old. All forces of 
Pennsylvania should be placed to co-operate at Chambersburg. My 
respects to Mrs. Lincoln. Received most enthusiastically by the 
ladies. Will send you trophies. 

All well, and with God's blessing will accomplish it. 

Geo. B. McClellan. 

How far General Lee succeeded in carrying out his 
plans, can be quickly told. When the Confederate com- 
mand under Jackson had crossed the river, they seized 
the railroad at Point of Rocks. General White, who was 
stationed at Martinsburg, at once fell back with his forces 
to Harper's Ferry. General Miles, who was in command 
of the garrison at this point, though deprived of com- 
munication with Washington by this move of the enemy, 
and though strongl}^ advised by members of his staff' to 
abandon the position, determined to hold the fort as long 
as possible, in the hope of receiving speedy re-enforce- 
ments as soon as his perilous situation was discovered. 
But Lee, who was determined to captui-e this valuable 
prize, inasmuch as it would give him the opportunity of 
paroling a force of 12,000 men, thus disabling the Army 
of the Potomac so as to cripple their operations for the 
winter, as well as to gain possession of the abundant 
store of supplies, of which his ragged and liungry army 
stood greatly in need, sent Jackson with a large force to 
cross the Potomac in front of Sharpsburg and invest the 
place from the Virginia side, while McLaws co-operated 
from the Maryland* side. The move was a complete 



68 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [September, 

success, as the position was capable of no effective 
defence against the batteries on the surrounding heights. 
The firing did not cease, however, until ten o'clock on 
the morning of the 15th, when. General Miles having 
been mortally wounded, any further defence was speed- 
ily given up. 

It is easy to see, in the light of later events, what might 
have been accomplished had General McClellan acted as 
well as he had planned, in view of the direct knowledge 
he possessed of General Lee's positions and intentions. 
A quick movement of his army to the left, and the sur- 
render of Harper's Ferry would not have been necessary ; 
the Maryland campaign on which Lee had built so many 
fair hopes would have been at an end, for with McLaws 
disabled it would have been hard for him to reorganize 
his army, and the whole tenor of events would have 
been changed. But history deals not with what might 
have been but what was. If, through General McClel- 
lan's over-cautiousness, the golden opportunity was lost, 
then on his shoulders must rest the responsibility. 

While Jackson and McLaws were thus engaged at 
Harper's Ferry, General Lee, who had withdrawn the 
bulk of his army to Sharpsburg, with a view to check- 
ing the further advance of McClellan as much as possi- 
ble, posted Gen. D. H. Hill, with his own division re-en- 
forced by two of Longstreet's divisions, at Turner's Gap 
of the South Mountain; while at Crampton's Gap, near 
Burkittsville, a portion of McLaws's force was stationed. 
General Franklin, who was sent against the latter force 
with the Sixth corps on the afternoon of the 15th, after 
some three hours of sharp though not heavy firing, car- 
ried the pass. 

It was at Turner's Gap, six miles to the northward. 



iS62.] THE BATTLE OF SOUTH MOUNTAIN. 69 

where the principal struggle in the Battle of South 
Mountain occurred, the assault being made by the 
right wing of the army, under General Burnside. 
From early morning till late at night there was a 
sharp struggle and a stubborn defence for the posses- 
sion of the rocky heights. In General Reno's first 
attack the crest of the mountain held by the Confed- 
erate forces under General Garland was wrested from 
them before noon ; but here the Union advance was 
checked, till Hooker's corps, climbing the mountain 
sides in the face of strong opposition, secured a posi- 
tion which commanded the pass proper. Just as the 
Union forces were in a position to secure the fruits of 
their persistent efforts, night came on, and in the morn- 
ing the enemy had withdrawn, having lost heavily in 
casualties and prisoners. The Stars and Stripes waved 
from the conquered heights, but the gallant leader of the 
Ninth corps was among the fallen. 

tI? ?|p 7|s ?lr ^p 

The Sabbath dawned, and the Ninth New Hampshire, 
roused from the shelterless bivouac of the night, found 
themselves in a beautiful valley midway between two 
mountain ranges — the Catoctin on the east, and South 
Mountain on the west, — and about three miles from either 
summit. Near by was the village of Middletown, one of 
the few places to be found with a name appropriate to its 
position and surroundings, and just beyond could be seen 
the Catoctin creek, winding its serpentine course along the 
valley to which it gives the name. 

Two beeves "on the hoof" was the regimental ration 
as drawn by the commissary, though it did not long 
remain in that form ; and soon, for the ten companies 
there were ten separate piles of fresh beef, presumably 



70 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [September, 

equal, and ready for distribution in time for an early- 
Sunday morning breakfast. It wasn't quite up to 
"mother's brown bread and beans," to be sure; but 
cooked by a sort of compromise process between a 
roast and a broil, with fence rails for fuel and ram- 
rods for toasting-forks — their first practical use — even 
the least desirable portions were a very acceptable addi- 
tion to a breakfast of hard-tack and coffee for a hun- 
gry man, — and who on that momentous morning w'as 
not hungry? 

The regiment was under orders to be ready to move 
at a moment's notice, an order emphasized by the boom- 
ing of cannon from the mountain-side to the westward, 
where their white puffs of smoke could be seen in 
increasing frequency. Aids were galloping, signal 
flags waving, and troops hurrying forward. At first 
the men waited and watched in expectancy and with 
suppressed excitement, but as the hours passed and 
the cannon's calls grew less frequent, they began to 
think they would not be needed. 

Mid-day approached, and dinner was eaten. Then 
away to the south-west were seen the tell-tale puffs 
which preceded the now familiar sounds, the lines of 
smoke rising from the side and summit of the mountain 
marking the spot where Franklin, with the Sixth corps, 
at Crampton's Gap, was forcing his way upward. 

At two o'clock came the long expected order, and 
along with its brigade and division the Ninth moved 
forward. Througli the village, silent and deserted ; 
past long lines of veteran troops resting by the road- 
side ; wading a creek near the still smoking timbers of 
some buildings fired by exploding shells and of the 
bridge burned by the Confederates the day before, the 



i862.] THE BATTLE OF SOUTH MOUNTAIN. 71 

column advanced. Then, after leaving the turnpike, 
filing to the left across the fields, and wading or jump- 
ing a small running stream, the column is halted, and 
for the first time the Ninth regiment men receive 
orders to load. Some have never before loaded a gun, 
few have ever loaded with a ball cartridge, and many- 
must be shown the whole process. The storm of battle 
is bursting upon the right, where Hooker has attacked, 
and the troops sweep over a ridge, a sort of foot-hill, 
clamber up the steep ascent, and are halted near the 
summit. 

Just at the right Burnside is seen superintending a bat- 
tery, and himself sighting one of the guns. It is Benja- 
min's battery of twenty-pound rifles, his pets and his 
pride. Some are pointed toward the mountain pass on 
the right, aimed at a battery in position beyond the turn- 
pike. It is a mile and a half away, and scarcely distin- 
guishable with the naked eye. The others are pointed 
towards the summit, directly in front. There is time to 
note the marked contrast between the energetic loading 
and firing and the calm deliberation of the aim ; and as 
their belching thunder mingles with the roar of battle, 
which now extends for two miles along the mountain 
side and crest, the sound is as thrilling as the sight is 
inspiring, for nothing so stirs the blood of the true sol- 
dier as the cannon's voice. Colonel Fellows, dismount- 
ing, goes to General Burnside and converses for a 
moment. "I want you to take that battery," says the 
general, pointing to the crest on the left of the road in 
front, which led directly to the summit. Even while he 
is speaking the line is again advancing, and soon files 
to the right into the old Sharpsburg road. A mounted 
officer rides down the column. "We're licking 'em !" 



72 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [September, 

is his reply to eager questioners. Now wounded men 
are met — some in ambulances, others carried on stretch- 
ers, silent and pale, and some with blood-stained cloth- 
ing. But not all are silent. There is one whose youth- 
ful features, not yet bronzed by exposure, are doubly 
pale. Lying upon a stretcher, he is borne on the shoul- 
ders of comrades. Mere boy as he seems, his voice has 
all the electric thrill of command as he shouts : '• Go in, 
boys ! They can't stand the bayonet !*' and far down 
the column, above the din of battle, again and again 
that ringing voice is heard, as with the exultation of 
victory. 

The regiment is half way up the summit w^hen an aid 
meets them: "Colonel, hurry up those men; the}' are 
needed immediately." " Double quick ! " is the response ; 
and tugging, sweating, and straining every nerve and 
muscle under their heavy loads, the men do their utmost 
to obey. The cracking rattle of musketry grows nearer 
and nearer, the bellowing guns are louder, and just over 
their heads is heard the swift-sailing song of the Minie, 
with its devilish diminuendo. Now they are nearing the 
line of smoke which rises from the mountain-side, and 
passing a low, weather-stained house on the left, a sharp 
turn through a lane brings them into the field beyond. 
"Halt! Front!" and they are facing down the moun- 
tain, their backs to the enemy. The mounted officers are 
now on foot. There is no time to change the formation. 
"Face by the rear rank! About face !" and now they 
are looking toward the summit, the rear rank in front. 
The bullets are singing nearer now — "Zip! Zip!" and 
they are gone before the strained ears can even catch 
the sound. "Forward!" and in refjimental line the 
men move up the slope. Here and there a man drops 



i862.] THE BATTLE OF SOUTH MOUNTAIN. 73 

his rifle, clasps a hand to his leg, arm, or side, and falls 
to the rear, or sinks to the ground. But no one minds 
them ; no one minds the bullets now, or even the larger 
missiles that go screaming over their heads. Only when 
a shell drops in the ranks, or explodes in their very faces, 
is there a break in the line, and then an officer springs 
to the place with a quick command, the gap is closed, 
and without a pause even, the line moves on. " See the 
rebels run!" some one exclaims; and from behind a 
stone wall just in front, they are seen to rise and quickly 
scamper away into the corn-field beyond. "Fix bayo- 
nets I " and at the word near nine hundred sabre bayo- 
nets flash from their scabbards, and with an ominous rat- 
tle there is a long line of bristling steel. "Charge and 
cheer, boys!" commands the colonel; "Yell, boys!" 
shouts the lieutenant-colonel, and both are obeyed. 
There is little thought now of keeping in regimental line. 
The game is flushed and on the run, and the Ninth are 
the hunters. Blanket-rolls are flung from the shoul- 
ders ; knapsacks, too, the few that have been kept. 
Even haversacks and canteens are given a toss — no mat- 
ter where ! No thought of their precious contents now ; 
no thought of anything but to drive, to capture, or to 
kill. Over the wall ! through the cornfield ! over a fence 
from behind which the Confederates start and run like 
frightened deer ! through the wood that crowns the 
height ! across the road and into a scrubby growth 
among the scattered trees beyond ! Such is the eager 
and exciting chase. The Ninth has reached the 
slope, but no enemy is in sight — they have outrun 
their pursuers. 

The command to " Halt" and "get into line" was 
repeated throughout the scattered regiment, for all lor- 



74 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [September, 

mation had been lost in the mad pursuit. The regiment 
was quickly reformed ; not as when it started on the 
charge up the mountain, end for end and hind side 
before, but the men were brought from the left into the 
more open ground, and the companies took their proper 
places in line. The sound of firing had ceased, and ex- 
cept their own men, not a living, moving human being 
was in sight. What was to be done? The line of battle 
had been left a quarter of a mile behind. Whether it 
was nearer now, whether anybody was nearer, except 
the enemy, no one knew. Plainly the regiment must go 
back; but how? There was no time for hesitation, and 
in an instant came the order, " By column of company 
to the rear !" and in perfect order, as steadily as on 
parade, the regiment retired across Wise's field. 

Near the eastern edge of this field it swung into line 
in front of the other regiments of the division, which had 
advanced to that point. The men rested on their arms 
for a few minutes, and then General Reno, riding up to 
Colonel Fellows as he was standing at the left of the regi- 
ment, shook him warmly by the hand, congratulated him 
upon what his men had done, and directed him to fall back 
a little, as other regiments were moving up. He then rode 
along the regimental front, and accosting the lieutenant- 
colonel, who was a little in front of the right of the line, he 
asked, " What regiment is this?" " Ninth New Hamp- 
shire," was the reply. " You made a gallant charge," 
he said, " a most gallant charge. I shall take great 
pleasure in giving you full credit for it in my report." 

Just as he passed on to the right, as sudden as the 
lightning's flash and unexpected as a bolt from a cloud- 
less sk}', along the front and away to the right there 
blazed from out the gathering darkness a line of rattling 



i862.] THE BATTLE OF SOUTH MOUNTAIN. 75 

musketry, and a storm of bullets came whistling through 
the air. With equal suddenness a portion of the regi- 
ment returned the fire, and then with one impulse, as it 
seemed, there was a break to the rear. Before they 
could be halted many of the men had put themselves on 
the other side of the fence at the edge of the woods, 
though they were quickly brought back and the line re- 
formed. After an interval sufficient to give time to re- 
load, the firing from the front was renewed. It was not, 
however, a sudden volley, as at first, but more continu- 
ous though somewhat scattering ; and in the mean time 
the Ninth was moved a little to the rear and older troops 
were placed in front. The firing soon dwindled to ap- 
parently little more than that of pickets, and though 
quite brisk at times for perhaps an hour, it gradually 
died away to now and then a shot, and by nine o'clock 
had ceased entirely. 

In this last attack the regiment suffered from no casu- 
alties, the bullets passing harmlessly over their heads. 
Nor did they fire another shot, for they were now in the 
second line, where it was not their business to shoot. In 
fact, the conformation of the ground was such — descend- 
ing slightly towards both combatants — that there was but 
little loss on the Union side, though in the death of Gen- 
eral Reno, the commander of the Ninth corps, both the 
corps and the Union cause suffered a great and irrepara- 
ble loss. The circumstances were as follows : 

After addressing Lieutenant-Colonel Titus as already 
stated. General Reno rode on towards the right for a dis- 
tance of perhaps twenty-five yards, and then came the 
sudden firing described above. The general, turning, 
started directly towards the Union lines. In another 
instant came the answering scattered fire, but the hero 



76 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [September, 

had received his death-wound, and for him the battle 
was indeed over. 

His loss, following so quickly upon that of General 
Stevens, killed at Chantilly, w^as keenly felt by the older 
regiments of the corps, with which he had been identi- 
fied, as well as with the Coast division that preceded it, 
from the time of their first formation ; and although he 
was almost a stranger to the men of the Ninth regiment, 
yet his death, from the peculiar circumstances attending 
it, has always been associated in their minds with their 
first battle, which was fought under his immediate com- 
mand ; and the more especially because their part in it 
was performed under his very eye, in high commenda- 
tion of which his last words were spoken. The official 
order announcing his death may, therefore, well have a 
place here : 

Head- Quarters, 9th Army Corps, 

Mouth Axtietam, Sept. 20, 1862. 
General Orders 

No. 17. 
The Commanding General announces to the Corps the loss of their 
late leader, Major-General Jesse S. Reno. 

By the death of this distinguished officer the Country loses one of its 
most devoted patriots, the Army one of its most thorough soldiers. 

On the long list of battles in which General Reno has fought for his 
Country's Service, his name always appears with the brightest lustre, 
and he has now met a soldier's death while gallantly leading his men 
at the battle of South Mountain. 

For his high character and the kindly qualities of his heart in private 
life, as well as for the military genius and personal daring as a soldier, 
his loss will be deplored by all who knew liim, and the Commanding 
General desires to add the tribute of a friend to the public mourn- 
ing for the death of one of the Country's best defenders. 
By Command of Major-General Burnside. 

Lewis Richmond, 
Lt. Col. S- A. A. G. 



i862.] THE BATTLE OF SOUTH MOUNTAIN. 77 

The conduct of a part of the Ninth New Hampshire 
was extremely mortifying to Lieutenant-Colonel Titus. 
It was not because the men suddenly conceived the idea 
that they were on the wrong side of the fence, and as 
suddenly started for the other side, — for that was not sur- 
prising under the circumstances, — but that the turn-about 
should follow, as it did, the splendid charge, the retreat 
in strict military order in full view of so large a part of 
the whole corps, and especially right upon the words of 
commendation from the corps commander. As soon as 
the line was reformed he took occasion to administer a 
rebuke and inculcate a lesson in a few emphatic words. 

"Walking along in front of the line after it had been 
reformed, he addressed a few words to each company in 
turn. I remember well his halting before ours, and with 
look and tone that went right through every man before 
him, bursting out with — 'And I have a word to say to 
this company, too. I know you are green and haven't 
had much drill and discipline, but there is one thing you 
do know, and that is that you must obey orders ; and 
though I am a Christian man at home [this was the only 

time I ever knew him to use a profane word], 

— ! Do n't you ever fire a gun again, nor change your 
position, without orders." 

Thus reads the rewritten diary of Sergeant Burnham, 
of Company E. The omitted words (if important) may 
be supplied from recollection or imagination, as the case 
may be. They were good old-fashioned Bible words, 
without doubt, and not entirely unfamiliar. 

It should be added, however, that many of the men 
stood their ground ; that the greater number halted at 



78 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [September, 

the first words of command, and that the line was 
reformed, the rebuke administered, and the new posi- 
tion taken, Hterally under fire : for the bullets were 
whistling sharply over their heads all the time. 

Viewed in the light of their after experience the Bat- 
tle of South Mountain might be regarded as simply an 
initiation to the hardships of war, but to a new regiment 
it would easily seem what it has been characterized in 
the following sketch : 

A ROUGH BREAKING-IN. 

By Dr. George L. Wakefield. 

When we got to the stone wall on the side of the 
mountain, — where the rebels retreated just as we were 
about to climb over the wall, which was very high — 
Colonel Fellows turned to the men and said, " I want 
every man of the Ninth New Hampshire to follow^ me 
over that wall. Now, men of the Ninth, is the time to 
cover yourselves with glory — or disgrace ! Any man 
that does not cross this wall I will report to his state." 

The rebels on the other side of the wall were armed 
with long knives, carried in their belts, which they 
doubtless intended to use on us ; but Colonel Fellows 
called their attention to our sabre bayonets, and the sight 
of these and our fellows all scrambling over the wall was 
too much for the doughty rebels, who turned and fled up 
the mountain as if for their lives, with the Ninth in hot 
pursuit. 

As we neared the top of the mountain we came to a 
rail fence and stone wall combined, beyond which was 
an open field (Wise's). The rebels were just getting 
over the fence when we received our first order to fire. 




Sergt. George L. Wakefield, Co. G. 



i862.] THE BATTLE OF SOUTH MOUNTAIN. 



79 



We halted for a moment and fired, and if it was our first 
attempt, hit the mark. 

There is one incident which will recall to the boys' 
minds the whole affair as above written, and that is the 
rebel who was " shot on the wing," and who got his 
feet so locked in the fence rails that he could go neither 
forward nor backward, but sat there on the fence bolt 
upright, — stone dead, though the boys thought him 
only sullen because he did not answer when they 
spoke to him. 

After firing that one volley we moved forward in a 
charge across the field, and then down the mountain on 
the other side, where we received the fire of a rebel 
battery, which checked the advance of the regiment. 
We moved by the right flank a short distance, and got 
the order to cover as we were lying flat on the ground. 
Then there came two or three loud reports from the 
cannon, which seemed to shake the very mountain, and 
we fell back to the summit, where we reformed. 

After we had returned from the charge and had 
reformed in the south-eastern part of Wise's field, our 
position was in front of the other regiments of the bri- 
gade. On the right and rear were the Fifty-first New 
York and Fifty-first Pennsylvania in front, and the 
Twenty-first Massachusetts in their rear. As the Thirty- 
fifth Massachusetts were reforming their line in rear of 
the Twenty-first, there came a sudden and sharp fire of 
musketry from the front and a little to our right. 

Of this firing the historian of the Thirty-fifth Massa- 
chusetts says : 

"The surprise was complete. The darkening forest 
was lined with flashes of the hostile guns, and their bullets 



8o NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [September, 

cut the earth about our feet, the ground descending tow- 
ards the enemy. Instantly some of the men threw for- 
ward their rifles and returned the fire, aiming over the 
heads of the line in front. Orders were confused, some 
shouting 'Fire, fire ! 'others, more calm, 'Cease firing !' 
The latter quickl}^ prevailed, although after a momentary 
interval, while they were reloading or a new line com- 
ing up, the enemy's musketry was continued, and men of 
our regiment were being hit; and our line was drawn 
back into the edge of the forest, east of the field, so as 
to be less exposed. It was in this sudden attack that 
General Reno received a mortal wound, and our colonel 
lost his arm. 

"The men of the regiment who fired at the time of 
the sudden attack were rightly blamed for doing so with- 
out the colonel's orders, but such occurrences are not 
easily avoided ; even veteran troops, when unexpectedly 
assaulted in a wooded country, will, if they think they 
see an opening for a shot, return the fire without orders, 
for the noise of the attack drowns the commander's voice, 
it can never be known how far the enemy will advance, 
and the ball or the bayonet is the only thing to stop 
them. The marvel was not that our raw men blazed 
away, but that they could be stopped, and remain steady 
while the enemy's fire continued." 

One of the correspondents who was with the division 
of General Sturgis (to the First brigade of which the 
Ninth New Hampshire had been assigned) at the Battle 
of South Mountain, gives the following account of the 
part taken by that division in the contest : 

"Our division, under General Sturgis, were on the 
extreme left, and were not placed in line until about five 



i862.] THE BATTLE OF SOUTH MOUNTAIN. 8l 

o'clock in the afternoon, when a double-quick movement 
took place, and the whole division started like Bengal 
tigers let loose for prey. They ran through a galling 
fire of shot and shell until they were within reach of 
the enemy's musketry, when a heavy fire opened on 
them, which General Nagle (commanding our bri- 
gade) saw at once would decimate the brigade, and 
so the order came to charge bayonets. Promptly the 
glistening steel was placed in position : and here one of 
the most brilliant bayonet charges took place that has 
been seen during the war. The brigade had to charge 
up hill, over stone walls and other obstructions, and met 
the enemy at great disadvantage. The Massachusetts 
Thirty-fifth regiment was put in order of battle, and did 
great execution at the first onset. 

" In General Nagle's brigade and Sturgis's division was 
also the Ninth regiment, New Hampshire volunteers, 
under Colonel Fellows, one of the most experienced 
commanders in the army. It was a handsome sight 
to see him put his regiment into action. When the clear, 
sonorous order came from Colonel Fellows, ' Charge 
bayonets!' every eye in the 'Bloody Ninth,' as the 
brigade now call the regiment, gleamed ; every man 
threw away his knapsack, blanket, and haversack, and 
leaped over a stone wall six feet high with a yell that 
fairly sent terror through the rebel ranks on the oppo- 
site side. With eyes gleaming with joy and determina- 
tion, and every bayonet fixed, they charged up the hill, 
and through the corn-field at double-quick, with a yell of 
perfect triumph. 

"Colonel Fellows and Lieutenant-Colonel Titus aston- 
ished the old veterans in the service by the manner in 
which they brought the Ninth New Hampshire volun- 

VI 



82 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [September, 

teers into action. It was a grand and magnificent 
sight and one seldom seen in battle. The rebels fled 
before them, and every rebel regiment broke and ran. 
General Reno fell beside the Ninth New Hampshire 
volunteers and the Thirty-fifth Massachusetts about 
dark, just in the moment of victory." 

The day had been hot, and the men were bathed in 
perspiration from their trem_endous exertions ; but the 
night was cold, fires were not to be thought of, and the 
detail sent back for the blankets and other equipments, 
thrown oft' in the excitement of the charge, returned 
almost empty-handed. Evidently the belongings of the 
Ninth New Hampshire were considered as worth caring 
for, — by some one else — and for the first time, though 
not the last, the men realized that the army contained 
many an Autolycus, who was not a " snapper-up of 
unconsidered trifles" only. So, blanketless and supper- 
less on their baptismal battle night, the Ninth regiment 
lay upon that mountain-top in battle line, with the ready 
rifle close at hand ; but, exhausted by the march of the 
previous night, the fatigues of the day, and relaxation 
from the strain of battle, they were soon oblivious alike 
of cold and hunger. 

The histor}^ of a regiment in battle embraces not only 
its external history, showing its relation to and combina- 
tion with other elements in the problem ; its integral his- 
tory, in which it is treated merely as a unit; but it also 
includes its internal or fractional history, for each and 
every man has, or may have, a history or experience of 
his own that may be worthy of record ; and first on the 
list of these experiences are the casualties. 

The first man hit was Lieutenant Copp, who was 



i862.] THE BATTLE OF SOUTH MOUNTAIN. 83 

Struck on the boot by a spent ball before the regiment 
filed out of the road. The first man wounded was Cor- 
poral Hiram S. Lathe, of Company F. As the men 
were filing out, and just as he bent his leg to step from 
the road on to the bank, a bullet imbedded itself in the 
knee joint, which it started apart. His brother, James 
W., extracted the bullet with his jack-knife, bound up 
the wound, carried him on his back to the surgeon, and 
rejoined his company before the regiment reached the 
corn-field. 

Lewis W. Aldrich of Company I was struck in the 
thigh by a bullet just as the men started up the mountain 
in regimental line. Dropping his rifle, and clasping his 
wounded leg with both hands, his imprecation upon the 
responsible parties was sudden, emphatic, and not to be 
repeated. 

Just about the same time Herbert N. Streeter was 
wounded in the right hand. He was a mere boy, in 
appearance one of the youngest in the regiment. Still 
holding his rifle in the left hand, he coolly stepped up to 
the captain, and holding out the now useless member, 
said, with a perplexed and injured air, " See there! 
What shall I do now?" 

The first man mortally wounded was Joel S. Judkins 
of Company A, — "Uncle Joel," as he was familiarly 
called — as the line was charging up the mountain ; and 
almost at the same instant Charles W. Glidden was 
severely wounded. The younger Judkins, Charles M., 
a nephew to Joel, was in line between the two men as 
they fell. Captain Pillsbury turned to him and said, 
"Charlie, take care of Uncle Joel." He accordingly 
helped the wounded man down the mountain to the barn 
which was used as a hospital, when Joel said to him, 



84 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [September, 

" Go back and give it to 'em !" He ran up the moun- 
tain until he overtook the regiment, and did his best to 
comply with Uncle Joel's parting injunction. Judkins 
was wounded in the thigh, and died of his wounds four 
days afterwards in the hospital at Middletown ; and 
Glidden was subsequently discharged for disability from 
his w^ound. 

The first shell to strike the regiment exploded in the 
ranks of Company E, wounding Privates Simpson and 
Paul ; and Luther C. Hurlburt was so wrenched and 
injured by the force of the explosion and the flying dirt 
as to unfit him for further active service. Corporal 
Mayo was thrown to the ground, but soon picked himself 
up and went on with the company. 

Thus, as the men advanced, with shot and shell all 
around them, one by one they dropped from the ranks 
until the list numbered twenty-six, as given below : 

Company A. — Privates Charles W. Glidden, Joel S. 
Judkins, Lyman M. Ramsey. Company B. — Private 
Joshua Nichols. Company C. — Corporal Orrin A. Small, 
Private William H. Applebee. Company D. — Privates 
Charles E. Foster, Enoch E. Hazelton. Company E. — 
Privates Frank B. Hackett, Luther C. Hurlburt, Moses 
N. Paul, Henry H. Simpson. Company F. — Corporal 
Hiram S. Lathe, Private George W. Hall. Company 
G. — First Sergeant George W. Gove, Private Mial 
Tarbell. Company H. — Privates Larkin H. Clough, 
William F. Cowen. Company L — Corporal Lew^is W. 
Aldrich, Privates George E. Hastings, Herbert N. 
Streeter, Charles E. Towns. Company K. — Corporals 
Joel S. Blood, S3'lvester B. Warren, Privates Jacob 
Abbott, Thomas S. Austin, Eben Eldridge. 



i862.] THE BATTLE OF SOUTH MOUNTAIN. 85 

None were killed outright, but two — ^Judkins of A and 
Hazelton of D — died of their wounds. 

The members of the band are entitled to great credit 
for their services. Reporting for duty to the surgeon as 
directed, and leaving their instruments at a house near 
by taken as a hospital, they followed the regiment and 
brought off the wounded under fire ; not only those of 
their own regiment, to whom they gave their first atten- 
tion, but of other regiments, especially the Thirty-fifth 
Massachusetts and Seventeenth Michigan ; and then 
those of the enemy. The}^ were brought off on blankets 
and shelter tents, no stretchers having been provided. 
It was a perilous service, as performed, but there was no 
flinching ; at least, none was reported. 

Even in the exxitement of this, the Ninth's first 
engagement with the enemy, some prisoners were taken, 
perhaps a half dozen in all. Hurlburt of Company E 
tells the story of one capture as follows : 

"Just after we had passed over the top of the moun- 
tain into a growth of mountain laurel, I got separated 
from my company, and coming upon Company A, I 
asked Captain Pillsbury where it was, and he answered 
' To the right.' I started in that direction, and the next 
thing I knew I was alone and came right on a Johnny, 
who looked as though he had his gun drawn on me. 
My hair stood right up on end and took my hat with it, 
but he threw his gun down and said he would sur- 
render. I thought he was going to use his knife, so 
I got my sabre bayonet ready to put into him and made 
him hold up his hands. We were standing near an oak 
tree that divided into two branches ; and while he still 
had his hands up, there came a cannon shot that split 



86 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [September, 

that oak tree right in two. He said, 'Let's get out of 
here before we are killed.' On our way to the rear I 
came first to some Pennsylvania soldiers, who said they 
would take care of him, so I gave him up." 

It appears that the enemy mistook the regiment for 
an entire brigade, more than one of the prisoners ask- 
ing what brigade it was that charged them. 

In a graphic account of this battle by the Confederate 
commander Gen. D. H. Hill, who was at the time near 
the Mountain House, more than a mile to the right, he 
says, — 

"About four o'clock I saw what appeared to be two 
Federal brigades emerge from the woods south of Col- 
quitt's position and form in an open field nearly at 
right angles to each other — one brigade facing toward 
the pike, and the other facing the general direction of 
the mountain. This inverted V-like formation was 
similar to that of the First Mississippi regiment at 
Buena Vista. If it was made anywhere else during 
the Civil War, I never heard of it. The V afforded a 
fine target from the pike, and I directed Captain Lane 
to open on it with his battery. His firing was wild, not 
a shot hitting the mark. The heavy batteries promptly 
replied, showing such excellent practice that Lane's 
guns were soon silenced. A small force in the edge 
of the woods on the west side of the old field opened 
fire upon the V. The Federals changed their forma- 
tion, and, advancing in line of battle, brushed away 
their assailants and plunged into the woods, when 
heavy firing began, which lasted possibly half an hour. 
I suppose that the Federal force which I saw was the 
division of General Sturgis." 



i862.] THE BATTLE OF SOUTH MOUNTAIN. 87 

Moving out of the road, as the division did, in both 
directions, it would appear to the Confederate comman- 
der to be emerging from the intervening woods, which 
would hide the road from his view. The heavy firing at 
the time of the advance is thus accounted for, all this 
being in addition to the firing from the batteries upon 
the crest in front. But he is slightly mistaken about 
"not a shot hitting the mark." It was the Ninth New 
Hampshire that received the fire from the " small force 
in the edge of the woods ;" and it was the only regiment 
which, " advancing in line of battle, brushed away their 
assailants and plunged into the woods." 



CHAPTER IV. 
The Battle at Antietam Creek. 



AFTER SOUTH MOUNTAIN. 

Day-dawn brought the warm sunlight, which fell 
gratefully upon fatigued and stiffened limbs, aching not 
only with the terrible strain of yesterday's battle and the 
unaccustomed march preceding it, but from the night's 
exposure to the chill and heavy fog that had served in 
lieu of blankets. Qiiickly the new day hastened from 
the east, the first rosy, wakening flush seeming to pale 
with dread after one glance upon the horrors lying 
revealed in the early light. 

" Never," writes a comrade, '' shall I forget my first 
indefinable feelings as I beheld the wounded or dead in 
the field ; " and such was doubtless the involuntary 
thought of all as they looked about them at the ghastly 
repetition of sufiering and death on all sides, — the fright- 
ful evidences of yesterday's grim carnival. 

Here and there could be seen little groups of men, 
picking their way carefully over the blood-bought field, 
and recalling to each other the experiences of yesterday. 

One has written, — 

" Strange sights meet my eyes this morning as I walk 
over the battle-field of yesterday. The trees are shiv- 
ered, rent, and grazed by missiles of all descriptions, 
and their broken branches, with all the debris of war, 



i862.] THE BATTLE AT ANTIETAM CREEK. 80 

Strew the ground ; but sadder than all else is the sight of 
ghastly corpses everywhere on the field. But few Union 
men are to be seen this morning, as doubtless most of 
those killed have been taken off by comrades and buried. 
The number of rebel dead shows that they fought des- 
perately. In one place I noticed eighteen literally piled 
upon each other, the whole occupying less than a square 
rod of ground, most of them shot through the head. 
They were ragged, dirty, and many of them shoeless. 
In their haversacks is bread made of flour or meal and 
water, baked in the ashes or in a spider, without yeast 
or soda. In their pockets and knapsacks are found very 
few valuable trinkets, though they all get searched. 
Some of the rebel prisoners are assisting in burying 
their own dead. It was ascertained from the diaries of 
some of those killed that they had enlisted only three 
days before." 

Again we find, — 

" Looked over a part of the battle-field, and oh, it was 
horrible beyond description ! There were a good many 
of our own men killed, but they were few compared with 
the enemy. Counted no less than forty behind perhaps 
five rods of stone wall, the most of them shot through 
the head or breast, and of all the horrid looking objects 
ever seen I believe they were the worst. In most cases 
the features were fearfully distorted with rage, or pain, or 
both. This, with their dirt, long hair, and squalid uni- 
forms, made up a spectacle such as I never wish to 
behold again." 

"But I did see many such, and even w^orse," is the 
laconic statement written by the diarist years afterwards 
as a marginal note. 



90 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [September, 

One soldier-boy wrote home, — 

" I have seen all of war I ever wish to. The thing is 
indescribable. Oh, horrors ! " And farther on is this : 

" The Southern army is very poorly clad. Indeed, a 
large number of them are barefoot. Their uniforms are 
made of the coarsest kind of gra}^ cloth, and their jackets 
are cut the same as a school-boy's. They carry nothing 
but their guns and cartridges, a canteen and a blanket, 
and some of them a haversack, so they have little to 
carry, and most of them are spry on foot. They are 
just the color of the ground, and so hard to be seen." 

Clearly, too, does one remember the strangely life- 
like position of that dead Confederate soldier sitting 
astride the stone wall near Wise's house, his body bent 
slightly forward, killed just in the act of climbing over; 
keeping surely more uncanny vigil than did ever sable 
bird of poet, who 

" Perched and sat and nothing more." 

Yet, with the quickly acquired tendency of the soldier to 
turn anything into a jest, entirely regardless of his own 
feelings, a Company E boy, noting the well-shod feet of 
the dead man, exclaimed, "That's the first rebel I've 
seen with a decent pair of boots on, and by thunder, if 
he ha' n't got up there to show 'em ! " 

The work of removing and burying the dead went for- 
ward with all possible speed, though the rapid digging 
of so many graves was made extremely difficult by the 
stony character of the ground. In long windrows they 
lay, like wheat from the sickle, in fence corners, on the 
banks, along the sunken road, and beside the stone 



i862.] THE BATTLE AT ANTIETAM CREEK. 9 1 

wall ; and regarding this, the historian of the Thirty- 
fifth Massachusetts says, — 

"When the contest had ceased, General Sturgis sent 
up a section of artillery; and, to let the guns pass, our 
men moved the wounded and dead from the road upon 
the bank, sometimes in the darkness placing several 
bodies together, which led observers in the morning to 
report to the newspapers that ' the rebels were piled in 
heaps as high as the wall.' " 

A singular alteration had already become noticeable 
in the countenances of the Confederate dead, distin- 
guishing them at once from those of the Union troops ; 
they were, without exception, rapidly turning black, so 
as to make them almost unrecognizable even to their 
own associates. This curious phenomenon has never 
been satisfactorily explained, though it continued to be 
observable throughout the war. Some surgeons con- 
jectured that it might be due to the scarcity of salt in the 
Confederate army, others laid it to the habit said to 
be prevalent among them, of mixing gunpowder with 
their whiskey. Be the reason what it may, it was a 
sufficiently shocking and painful sight to unaccustomed 
eyes. 

But neither welcome September sunshine nor grue- 
some surroundings could long avail the men in forget- 
ting the sharpened appetites which by this time they had 
succeeded in acquiring. Not only had they slept fast- 
ing, but the teams carrjung the rations had as yet failed 
to connect, and the inhospitable fields offered litde pros- 
pect of relief. Guns, blankets, and haversacks littered 
the ground in every direction, where they had been 



92 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [September, 

dropped by the Confederates during the fight, so the 
losses of the previous day were in a measure made 
good; but as to how their fast was broken, "that is 
another matter," as WilHam IV was wont to exclaim 
when loth to express a decided opinion. 

The hard, round biscuit-bread found in the ownerless 
haversacks that lay scattered about, furnished food for a 
few, but the great majority were in the same woful 
plight as the hungry soul who thus voices his plaint ; 
" Having thrown off my haversack yesterday, contain- 
ing three days' rations, I am without any grub ;" but 

gratefully adds that " my friend G in the Sixth 

New Hampshire gave me a breakfast." 

Another record runs thus : "I picked up half a hard- 
tack by the roadside ; and this, with a little piece of 
meat, was all my rations." 

Later in the day it is learned that the compiler of the 
same little battered book "found plenty of green corn 
and green apples," and after partaking as freely as he 
dared, " fell asleep and slept soundly." 

With such a scant bill of fare, it is no wonder that the 
majority of the boys seem either to forget that they had 
^ any breakfast, or, at any rate, to consider what they did 
have as too slight a matter to be worthy of notice. 



AT ANTIETAM CREEK. 



The general expectation on the evening of September 
14 was that the contest would be renewed on the follow- 
ing day, and therefore, as darkness slowly settled down 



i862.] THE BATTLE AT ANTIETAM CREEK. 93 

on the mountain and active hostilities ceased, prepara- 
tions for the morrow were begun. The hours of dark- 
ness passed, the dawn came, and as the gray mist rolled 
down the mountain and away from the valley no enemy 
could be seen, for under cover of the night the Confed- 
erate forces had been withdrawn. 

The effect of this move could only be to change the 
scene of the great battle already foreshadowed, for it was 
not probable that the invaders would so easily be dis- 
suaded from their purpose ; but rather, that having con- 
centrated their now scattered forces, a stand would be 
made at some favorable position and hostilities renewed. 

While the battle was being fought at South Mountain, 
General McClellan was engaged in massing the remain- 
der of the troops in and about Middleton, eight miles 
to the south-east from Boonsborough and on the main 
road from Frederick to Hagerstown. When the advance 
of the pickets, on the morning of the 15th, had given 
assurance of the enemy's disappearance. General 
Pleasanton's cavalry and the First, Second, and Twelfth 
corps, under Generals Hooker, Sumner, and Mansfield, 
respectively, were sent off to the north-west, along the 
main road toward Boonsborough ; General Franklin's 
command, which had occupied Crampton's Gap on the 
14th, would secure possession of Rohrersville in the 
south-west ; and the Ninth corps, coming down from the 
mountain, were to take the old Sharpsburg road to the 
west. 

It was past noon when the Ninth corps, which was 
now under the command of General Cox, left South 
Mountain. The men were weary from their forced 
marches, and exhausted from lack of sufficient food ; so 
that the eight miles covered before dark seemed very 



94 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [September, 

long ones, and when they finally rested on their arms, 
many threw themselves down on the bare ground and 
slept soundly. 

The Confederate forces had retreated across Antie- 
tam creek, and had taken up a position extending well 
along the high bank of the western side of the stream, 
and one which commanded in the rear the road to 
Shepherdstown, on the Potomac — a safe, and in fact 
the only, line of retreat open to them in case of defeat. 
The Army of the Potomac began to arrive at the east- 
ern bank just before dark. General Richardson's 
division of the Second corps had advanced through 
Keedysville, along the Sharpsburg and Boonsborough 
turnpike, and striking Antietam creek, deployed to the 
right. The other two divisions of General Sumner's 
corps took up positions behind Richardson, with the 
cavalry, under General Pleasanton, on his flank. 
General Mansfield supported General Hooker. Gen- 
eral Sykes's division of Gen. Fitz-John Porter's corps 
(the Fifth), which had been under the command of 
General Burnside at South Mountain, and with the 
Ninth corps now constituted the left wing of General 
McClellan's advanced forces, came along the old 
Sharpsburg road to Porterstown, then filed to the left, 
and was joined soon by the Ninth corps. 

Antietam creek, in the vicinity of Sharpsburg and 
Keedysville, could be crossed by either one of three 
bridges, but the current was slow, its waters were deep, 
and it was thought to be difficult to ford. The bridge on 
the Rohrersville and Sharpsburg road is about three 
miles above the point where the creek enters the Poto- 
mac ; the next bridge is about a mile higher up the 
creek, on the Keedysville and Sharpsburg turnpike ; the 



i862.] THE BATTLE AT ANTIETAM CREEK. 



95 



last, better known as '' Number i," is on the Keedysville 
and Williamsport road, two and a half miles farther up 
the creek. About midway between the two last men- 
tioned is a ford. 

Facing the Federal forces, on the right side of 
Antietam creek, there was, on the night of the 15th, only 
a small part of the Army of Northern Virginia. Gen- 
eral Jackson was still at Harper's Ferry ; General 
McLaws was at Maryland Heights, and General Walker 
was occupying Loudon Heights. Only Longstreet's 
and D. H. Hill's divisions and the main body of Stuart's 
cavalry were at Antietam with General Lee. Long- 
street's line extended across the Boonsborough turnpike 
to a point slightly below the lowest of the three bridges. 
D. H. Hill's line was north and west of Longstreet's, his 
left resting on the "Dunker chapel." 

The Confederate forces were wearied by their long- 
continued activity, disappointed in their welcome by the 
citizens of Maryland, and somewhat disheartened by 
their repulse at South Mountain. General Lee was 
beginning to fear that the invasion from which his 
advisers had hoped so much might prove disastrous. He 
suspected that a copy of his since-famous " lost order" 
was in General McClellan's possession, and if such were 
the fact there was a possibility that the Federal com- 
mander, by energetic movements, might imperil and 
perhaps capture the forces under General McLaws. 
September 15 he sent the following order to the latter: 



96 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [September, 

Headquarters, 
Centreville [Keedysville] , Md., 

September 15, 1862. 
General McLaws, 

Coumtaiiding Division, Ss^c. : 
General : General Lee desires me to say that he sent several dis- 
patches to you last night ; he is in doubt that they have been received. 
We have fallen back to this place to enable you more readily to join 
us. You are desired to withdraw immediately from your position on 
Maryland Heights, and join us here. If you can't get off any other 
way, you must cross the mountain. The utmost dispatch is required. 
Should you be able to cross over to Harper's Ferry, do so, and report 
immediately. 

I am, very respectfully, 

Your obedient servant, 

A. L. Long, 
Colonel and Military Secretary. 

It is evident that the halt was made at Antietam pri- 
marily in order to give McLaws a chance to join his 
commander. Had General McClellan been able to 
complete his plan of action during the night of the 15th, 
and to bring up the troops of Generals Franklin and 
Fitz-John Porter, so as to have attacked with vigor on 
the i6th, there might not be to-day a National cemetery 
at Antietam. But he was not ready. 

It was on the 15th that Harper's Ferry surrendered. 
The Confederates were cheered somewhat by the suc- 
cess of Jackson and McLaws and by the prospect of the 
speedy return of their absent comrades, and General 
Lee contracted his too extended lines and waited. 

From reports received during the forenoon of the 15th, 
the Union general thought the Confederates were in dis- 
orderly retreat. He regarded the triumph of the Fed- 





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iS62.] THE BATTLE AT ANTIETAM CREEK. 97 

eral army at South Mountain as complete, and tele- 
graphed Governor Curtin, of Pennsylvania, as follows: 

September 15, 1862 — 8 a. m. 
Gov. Andrew G. Curtin, Harrisburg: 

I have the pleasure of announcing to you that we gained a complete 
victory over the enemy yesterday afternoon, and have now entire pos- 
session of the South Mountain range. I congratulate you on the gal- 
lant behavior of the Pennsylvania Reserves, who, as well as all the 
troops, both old and new, acted with the greatest steadiness and gal- 
lantry. The army is moving in pursuit of the enemy. 

George B. McClellan, 

Major- General Cojnmanding. 

On the same day and at the same hour he sent the 
following despatch to General Halleck : 

Head-quarters Army of Potomac, 
Bolivar, Md., September 15, 1862 — 8 a. m. 
(Received 12:25 P- '^O 
Maj. Gen. W. H. Halleck, 

General-in-Chief : I have just learned from General Hooker in 
the advance, who states that the information is perfectly reliable, that 
the enemy is making for Shepherdstown in a perfect panic ; and Gen- 
eral Lee last night stated publicly that he must admit they had been 
shockingly whipped. I am hurrying everything forward to endeavor 
to press their retreat to the utmost. 

George B. McClellan, 

Major- General. 

At ten o'clock he sent this : 

Head-quarters Army of the Potomac, 
Bolivar, Md., September 15, 1862 — 10 a. m. 

(Received i : 20 p. m.) 
Major-General Halleck, 

General-in-Chief U. S. Army: 
There are already about 700 prisoners at Frederick, under very 

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98 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [September, 

insufficient guard, and I shall probably send in a larger number to-day. 
It would be well to have them paroled or otherwise disposed of, as 
Frederick is an inconvenient place for them. Information this moment 
received confirms the rout and demoralization of the rebel army. 
General Lee is reported wounded, and Garland is killed. Hooker 
alone has over 1,000 more prisoners. It is stated that Lee gives his 
loss as 15,000. We are following as rapidly as the men can move. 

Geo. B. McClellan, 
Major- General, CoDimandiiig. 

These reports from the Army of the Potomac intensi- 
fied the suspense among the officials at Washington , 
Governor Curtin was in close communication with 
north-western Maryland, and President Lincoln, not 
hearing from McClellan by noon of the i6th, tele- 
graphed an inquiry to the governor. But that very 
afternoon the president heard from the arm}^ through 
its commander and General Halleck, as follows : 

Head-quarters Army of the Potomac, 

Bivouac near Sharpsburg, Md., 

September 16, 1862 — 7 a. m. 
(Received 12 m.) 
Maj. Gen. H. W. Halleck, 
General-in-Chief : 
The enemy yesterday held a position just in front of Sharpsburg. 
When our troops arrived in sufficient force it was too late in the day to 
attack. This morning a heavy fog has thus far prevented us doing 
more than ascertain that some of the enemy are still there. Do not 
know in what force. Will attack as soon as situation of enemy is de- 
veloped. I learn Miles [at Harper's Ferry] surrendered 8 a. m. yes- 
terday unconditionally. I fear his resistance was not as stubborn as it 
might have been. Had he held the Maryland Heights he would inevi- 
tably have been saved. The time lost on account of the fog is being 
occupied in getting up supplies, for the want of which many of our 



men are suiTering. 



George B. McClellan, 
Major- General, Commanding. 



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So Mr. Lincoln notified Governor Curtin that since 
sending the despatch of inquiry he had heard from 
McCIellan, and that nothing of importance had hap- 
pened on the 15th, and that " this morning he was up 
with the enemy at Sharpsburg, and was waiting for a 
heavy fog to rise." 



THE BATTLE ON THE RIGHT. 

At two o'clock, on the afternoon of the i6th, General 
Hooker crossed the creek, by the upper bridge and the 
ford, and skirmished sharply with the enemy. This 
firing was heard at Hagerstown, and how it was inter- 
preted, and what was expected of McCIellan, is shown 
by Governor Curtin's despatch to President Lincoln : 

Harrisburg, Pa., September 16, 1862, 

—5 : 30 p. m. 
President Lincoln : 

The following just received from Hagerstown: "Jackson has 

recrossed the Potomac, and General McCIellan has engaged him 

with a large force a few miles this side of Sharpsburg, ten miles 

from here. The whole rebel army in Maryland will probably be 

annihilated or captured to-night. McCIellan is on the battle-field." 

A. G. Curtin, 

Governor of Peiinsylvania. 

It is evident that when the Union general learned of 
Miles's surrender, and when he found that General Lee 
was facing him in a w^onderfully well selected position, 
he lost much of the confidence of the preceding da}', 
and haunted b}^ his habitual excessive caution, was glad 
that the morning of the i6th was foggy. He wanted his 
reserves, and gave them time to come up. 



lOO NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [September, 

In the mean while the Confederate forces were arriving 
from Harper's Ferry. Jackson, a host in himself, and 
a part of his command, arrived on the i6th, and were 
placed on the extreme left, closing the space between 
D. H. Hill's line and the Potomac. General Lee was 
then prepared to give battle, but that he was careful to 
provide against defeat is shown by his anxiet}' regarding 
the fords of the Potomac. He wrote his commander of 
artillery as follows : 

Sharpsburg. 
September 17, 1862 — 4:30 a. m. 
Brigadier-General Pendelton, 

Coinma7iding Artillery : 
General : I desire you to keep some artillery guarding each of the 
fords at Williamsport, Falling Waters, and Shepherdstown, and have 
some infantry with it if possible. 

Very respectfully yours, 

R. E. Lee. 

General. 

During the night of the 16th General Mansfield 
crossed to Hooker's support. McClellan planned to 
" attack the enemy's left with the corps of Generals 
Hooker and Mansfield, supported by General Sumner's, 
and, if necessary, by General Franklin's ; and as soon 
as matters looked favorably there, to move the corps of 
General Burnside against the enemy's extreme right 
upon the ridge running to the south and rear of Sharps- 
burg, and having carried tliat position, to press along 
the crest towards our right." 

On the morning of the 17th General Sumner's corps 
(the Second) was on the eastern bank of the creek, 
ready to move across to the assistance of Hooker and 
Mansfield if needed. Fitz-John Porter had come up 
with two divisions, and occupied the main turnpike. 



i862.] THE BATTLE AT ANTIETAM CREEK. lOI 

which communicated with the rear and the ammunition 
and supply trains. General Franklin's corps was 
advancing from Crampton's Gap. The left wing, under 
General Burnside, had been moved nearer to the lower 
bridge. 

General Lee placed all his artillery on a high hill just 
east of Sharpsburg, at the right of the Boo-nsborough 
turnpike. From this position he could so protect his 
own centre from Richardson and Sykes that his infantry 
could be massed to meet the expected attack on his left. 

The battle opened ere the stars had faded from the 
heavens. The Confederates attacked along the line of 
the First corps. To meet them, Doubleday advances 
Gibbon, with Phelps and Patrick in support, and fights 
fiercely ; Meade, under an enfilading artillery fire, 
moves forward in the corn-field, and with the aid of 
Doubleday's left forces Starke's division back to the 
Dunker chapel ; Ricketts encounters three brigades of 
D. H. Hill's division, and is hard pressed. Meade sends 
assistance to Ricketts, but leaves a gap in his own line 
into which the Confederates rush, but are compelled to 
retreat because Meade in turn is assisted by Ricketts. 
The enemy try to turn Doubleday's flank, but are com- 
pelled to withdraw ; they rally again, and force the Fed- 
eral line back. General Mansfield's corps is ordered in, 
and its commander almost immediately falls, mortally 
wounded. General Williams assumes command of the 
corps, and tries to flank the Dunkard church, but is met 
by Hood, whom Lee has ordered in from his reserves. 
Hooker is wounded, and Meade handles the First corps. 
Sedcrwick arrives, and drives Hood back bevond the 
Dunker chapel ; but the other two divisions of Sumner's 
corps are not at hand, and the troops of McLaws and 



I02 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [September, 

Walker, that have made forced marches from Loudon 
and Maryland heights, drive Sedgwick back. Williams 
tries to take the Dunker chapel, and cannot. French 
advances and attempts the same thing, but is arrested by 
an enfilading fire from the artillery. Richardson's 
division goes in on French's left, finds the enemy massed 
in the sunken road henceforth to be known as "Bloody 
Lane," flanks their position, and having compelled them 
after desperate fighting to abandon it, gets almost to the 
Hagerstown road, but is then obliged to fall back, and 
the gallant leader is mortally wounded. Hancock takes 
his place, but the fight on the right and centre is now, at 
one o'clock, nearly over, and McClellan telegraphs as 
follows : 

Head-Quarters Army of the Potomac, 

September 17, 1862 — i : 20 p. m. 

(Received 5 p. m.) 
Maj. Gen. H. VV. Halleck, 

General-in-Chief : 

Please take military possession of the Chambersburg & Hagerstown 

railroad, that our ammunition and supplies may be hurried up without 

delay. We are in the midst of the most terrible battle of the war — 

perhaps, of history. Thus far it looks well, but I have great odds 

against me. Hurry up all the troops possible. Our loss has been 

terrific, but we have gained much ground. I have tlirown the mass of 

the army on the left flank. Burnside is now attacking the right, and I 

hold my small reserve, consisting of Porter's [Fifth] corps, ready to 

attack the centre as soon as the flank movements are developed. I 

hope that God will give us a glorious victory. 

Geo. B. McClellan. 

Major- General, Commanding. 

The Confederates, having received additional re-en- 
forcements, attacked once more with desperation, but 
Franklin's corps arrived opportunely, and checked the 



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assault. The contest north of the Boonsborough turn- 
pike was practically a drawn battle. Lee was driven 
to extremity many times, but something invariably hap- 
pened to his advantage, or failed to happen to his dis- 
advantage, and his forces held their ground. 



THE ATTACK ON THE LEFT. 

During the early morning there was a fierce artiller}^ 
fire on the Federal left, where Gen. Jacob D. Cox was 
handling the Ninth corps under the direction of Gen- 
eral Burnside. Opposed to him was General Long- 
street, who occupied the high and nearly precipitous 
cliffs on the west bank of the creek. It was ten o'clock 
when General Burnside received orders to carry the nar- 
row bridge in his front, move on to the heights above, 
and advance towards Sharpsburg. An ordinary enemy 
could have made this a difficult task, but with Long- 
street across the stream it was doubly hard. This gen- 
eral at the first and second battles of Bull Run had been 
proved an expert in the disposition of artillery, and at 
Antietam, where he was favored by w^hat one, at least, 
has called a "natural Gibraltar," he so arranged his 
batteries that he could concentrate their aim on Bridge 
No. 3 and each avenue of approach to it, while Toombs's 
infantry and sharpshooters were stationed under cover 
on the sides and crest of the steep slope near the west- 
ern bank. A story is told by the Atlanta Constitution 
of Longstreet himself serving a cannon at Antietam. 

The bridge which General Burnside had been ordered 
to carry was (quoting from General Cox's able descrip- 
tion) " a stone structure of three arches, with stone 
parapet above, this parapet to some extent flanking the 



I04 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [September, 

approach to the bridge at either end. The valley in 
which the stream runs is quite narrow, the steep slope 
on the right bank approaching quite to the water's edge. 
On this slope the roadway is scarped, running both 
ways from the bridge end, and passing to the higher 
land above by ascending through ravines above and 
below ; the other ravine being some six hundred yards 
above the bridge, the turn is about half that distance 
below. On the hillside immediately above the bridge 
was a strong stone fence running parallel to the stream. 
The turns of the roadway were covered by rifle-pits 
and breastworks made of rails and stone, all of which 
defences, as well as the woods which covered the slope, 
were filled with the enemy's infantry and sharpshooters. 
Besides the infantry defences, batteries were placed to 
enfilade the bridge and all its approaches." 

At South Mountain General Burnside as commander 
of the left wing had under him the First and Ninth 
corps ; at Antietam he had only the Ninth, and that was 
under the immediate command of General Cox. He had 
placed General Crook's brigade of the Kanawha divis- 
ion and General Sturgis's division in front of the bridge. 
General Rodman's division and Colonel Scammon's bri- 
gade of the Kanawha division were further to the left, 
opposite a ford, and General Willcox's division was in 
support. Most of the artillery was stationed on and 
around the crest of the hill which overlooked the bridge 
and the heights above and beyond, but one battery of 
Dahlgren's boat howitzers covered the ford in front of 
General Rodman. 

On receiving the order to attack, General Cox had 
the Eleventh Connecticut, under Colonel Kingsbury, 
deployed as skirmishers. They were followed closely 



i862.] THE BATTLE AT ANTIETAM CREEK. 1 05 

by Crook's brigade and Sturgis's division. The Sec- 
ond Maryland and Sixth New Hampshire fixed bayo- 
nets and attempted to charge across the bridge, but the 
enemy concentrated a heavy fire at that point and com- 
pelled them to draw back. They tried again, but were 
repulsed a second time with heavy loss, and were com- 
pelled to give up the attempt. 

During the earlier part of the day the Ninth New 
Hampshire was lying just below the bridge, between the 
roadway and the creek, behind a stout rail fence, which 
somewhat reduced the danger, and had remained there 
two hours, giving and receiving a galling fusillade. 
About twelve o'clock the regiment was moved across 
the road and stationed just back of a mound directly in 
front of the bridge. After the failure of the first assault- 
ing column to cross the bridge, the Second brigade, with 
the Fifty-first Pennsylvania and Fifty-first New York in 
advance, was ordered to assault. They dashed along 
the road, and charging across the bridge drew the 
enemy's fire. 

Colonel Fellows, of the Ninth, protected from the rays 
of the Maryland sun by an old-fashioned palm-leaf hat, 
was near, the top of the ridge behind which his regiment 
lay, earnestly watching every manoeuvre. As the New 
York and Pennsylvania regiments drew upon themselves 
the terrible shower of Confederate Minie balls, shells, 
cannon-balls, and railroad iron, Colonel Fellows saw 
his opportunity, and waving his hat as he shouted the 
order, " Forward, Ninth New Hampshire! Follow the 
old palm-leaf! " he rushed into the fray, and the Ninth 
New Hampshire was across the bridge before the enemy 
could again concentrate their fire ! 

The Second brigade had taken the road to the right ; 



Io6 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [September, 

Colonel Fellows turned to the left, then took a course 
directly up the bluff, and fought his way to the edge 
of the pasture-land on the heights. The New Hamp- 
shire Ninth was followed by the Ninth New York, then 
came the remainder of Sturgis's division, and the heights 
were carried ! Crook followed Sturgis, and formed on 
his right, and at about the same time Rodman carried 
the ford below the bridge and took position on Sturgis's 
left. 

The Ninth corps had done the work assigned it. 
Sturgis's and Rodman's divisions, with Crook's brigade, 
had thus far borne the brunt of the battle, and had done 
some stubborn fighting, — so stubborn that they were 
now facing the enemy with but little ammunition ; but 
General Willcox's division coming to the front, the 
enemy on the right was forced back nearly into Sharps- 
burg. Meanwhile Rodman, on the left, was struggling 
hard, both to keep his connection with Willcox and to 
prevent the enemy from coming in on his flank. 

The bridge had been carried at one o'clock, and it was 
now half-past two. Messages were sent to General 
McClellan asking him for re-enforcements, but no help 
was to be had ; while the enemy was re-enforced by 
Gen. A. P. Hill's division of Jackson's corps, and by 
detachments from the left wing. At about four o'clock 
General Cox withdrew his Ibrces from their advanced 
position to the ridge along the Antietam. The Confed- 
erates did not pursue, and the battle was over. The 
honorable task of guarding the dearl}^ bought bridge for 
the night was assigned to the Ninth New Hampshire. 



i862.] THE BATTLE AT ANTIETAM CREEK. 107 

GLINTS FROM PARTICIPANTS. 

The Story of the battle as a whole has been given, but 
a most graphic portrayal of the part borne by the Ninth 
New Hampshire on that bloody field is furnished by the 
regimental correspondent of the Manchester Daily 
Afirror, as follows : 

Letter From the Ninth Regiment. — Official List of 
Killed, Wounded, and Missing. 

"Antietam, near Sharpsburg, Md., 

September 20, 1862. 

Editor Mirror : The most desperate of the battles 
fought on this continent has just transpired around the 
ground wdiere I am now writing, amid the scenes that 
line the field of carnage and destruction. The 17th and 
i8th of September will long be remembered as the great 
days when the entire force of the rebel army at last met 
the LTnion army and we gained a great and brilliant 
victory. 

"It is now two days since the great battle, and we 
have only just got particulars enough together to give 
you some connected details of the battle, and we have 
this moment got the list of killed and wounded (official) 
in all our New Hampshire regiments engaged in this 
army corps. 

"The rebel army occupied Sharpsburg on Tuesday, 
and was in a badly demoralized condition, having re- 
treated in haste from South Mountain, where they were 
so badly whipped. They had here resolved to make a 
stand and pitch all their forces into one mighty struggle, 
for Lee, Longstreet, and Jackson had here united their 
forces from Hagerstown and Harper's Ferry. 



I08 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [September, 

" Tuesday evening Generals Hooker and Sumner 
posted their corfs d'arnies on several hills overlook- 
ing the Antietam river, composing the extreme right, 
and were ready to offer battle ; the division of General 
Sykes and several other corps occupied the centre of the 
grand line of battle, while the gallant corps of Burnside 
occupied the extreme left. The line of battle formed 
was not less than eight miles long, and from the top of 
one hill near by, the line for nearly five miles could be 
seen with the naked eye, every hill and valley black 
with men, and the preparations for the great battle 
going on with great haste. Near us were 50,000 men, 
packed in solid columns ready for the morrow, with 
their columns sub-divided by the usual proportion of 
artillery, cavalry, and infantry. Few men now living 
will ever behold so grand a sight again. 

"The field of Waterloo before the battle, or of Auster- 
litz, Dresden, or Borodino, could not have been so grand 
from the fact that the surrounding country would not 
admit it, as there were no high hills from which a view 
of the army and conflict could be obtained. At day- 
light Wednesday morning, September 17, the thunder 
of artillery began to echo over the hills and valleys, and 
soon the clatter of cavalry and the sharp crack of infan- 
try was borne along the deep ravines, and came like the 
artillery of heaven over the hills from the rebel lines of 
battle. The smoke of battle fairly obscured the rays of 
the sun, and everything was wreathed in smoke, and 
massive clouds of fire and smoke, all mixed in one 
heavy cloud, hung over the hundred pieces of artillery 
that were belching out their thunder until the earth fairly 
trembled and the hills seemed to rock with their terrible 
concussion and deafening roar. 



i862.] THE BATTLE AT ANTIETAM CREEK. 



109 



' ' The extreme right wing of the army commenced soon 
after sunrise, and Hooker's and Sumner's veterans were 
placed in the opening contest. Then General Sykes 
advanced with the centre, and General McClellan was 
here, moving in all directions, and managed this part of 
the army. The entire left was commanded by General 
Burnside, the old hero that never yet lost a battle. In 
solid column this mighty army advanced from its posi- 
tion until, three miles from Sharpsburg, it gained, on 
the left, the banks of Antietam creek, which is a muddy 
river about the size of the Piscataquog where it empties 
into the Merrimack. The rebels began to mass their 
troops on our left at an early hour, and it seemed evi- 
dent that they would cross the river where a fine stone 
bridge spanned the creek. The First brigade, Second 
division, commanded by that veteran war-horse, Gen. 
James Nagle, was ordered at once to the bridge, and 
the whole brigade rushed to the scene of conflict and 
carnage with such a yell of delight that a bystander 
would have thought they were going to a festival. In 
this brigade are the Sixth and Ninth New Hampshire 
volunteers, and they were brought into a scene of hor- 
ror only equalled at Napoleon's famous battle at the 
bridge of Lodi. The stone bridge across the creek 
here is at the intersection of two roads, where a deep 
and precipitous ravine on our side of the river was 
directly in front of the bridge where several regiments 
of rebel infantry were pouring a deadly fire into our gal- 
lant troops. In a ploughed field near this bhiff the Ninth 
regiment, New Hampshire volunteers, were ordered to 
fall flat on their faces and load and fire at the rebels con- 
cealed in the heavy underbrush across the river, where 
its banks rose to a height of two hundred feet and were 



no NINTH NE W HA MPSHIRE. [September, 

covered by a deep forest. A deadly fire came trans- 
versely from the enemy, both from the opposite banks 
of the river and the bridge, which is here in an oblique 
direction from our position. For two hours there was 
never sharper musketry heard or seen, and New Hamp- 
shire blood flowed freely in the contest. The Ninth 
suffered terribly but never flinched, and every man stood 
before the awful carnage without one thought of yielding. 

" Colonel Fellows was everywhere to be seen, cheer- 
ing his men and making them efficient. His splendid 
knowledge of military affairs and tactics was here hand- 
somely displayed, and it was the remark of all in the 
division that he headed the regiment with remarkable 
skill, and showed a perfect disregard of life, rushing in 
wherever he could be of service, and displaying both 
courage, coolness, and valor. He was complimented on 
all sides, and deserves great credit for sustaining at this 
hazardous point the reputation of New Hampshire sol- 
diers, and will never be forgotten by his men. 

" Lieutenant-Colonel Titus seized the gun of a man 
who fell dead by his side, and used it through most of 
the fight, until a Minie ball from a rebel sharpshooter 
struck him in the side and entered his shoulder, produc- 
incf a severe wound, and he was taken from the field. 
He is now more comfortable, though badly wounded. 

"The chaplain and our band were very serviceable 
in taking care of the wounded, and Surgeon Webster, of 
Manchester, displayed remarkable ability in dressing 
the wounds of our soldiers, and was as cool as a sum- 
mer's morning in the midst of the blood and carnage 
around him. Captain Whitfield, of Francestown, and 
also Captain Cooper, were wounded and carried to the 
rear, and many others fell wounded around them. 




Surgeon William A. Webster. 



i862.] THE BA TTLE A T ANTIE TAM CREEK. 1 1 1 

"The Sixth New Hampshire regiment was fighting 
side by side with the Ninth, but not being in quite so 
perilous a position did not suffer so severely. The Sixth 
behaved nobly in the battle, and did themselves great 
credit. 

"After the fight had been prolonged at the bridge 
from ten in the forenoon to two in the afternoon, the 
First brigade became nearly out of ammunition, and 
was ordered to the rear, when the Second bricrade of 
General Sturgis's division was ordered up to charge the 
bridge ; and with plenty of ammunition and pluck they 
went over, with our brigade next in rear, and the two 
brigades planted their flags on the heights towards 
Sharpsburg, a half mile from the river. 

" The yells of the Ninth and Sixth were perfectly ter- 
rific as the rebel line gave way and they went over the 
bridge and up the steep bank on the other side. Here 
the fight was continued until after dark, and on the 
Sixth and Ninth regiments a perfect tempest of grape, 
canister, and shell was raining for hours, wounding 
many of our men, and putting them where they could 
not charge on their foe, — for they were put in the rear to 
rest, — and thousands of fresh troops rushed ahead of 
them into the fight nearer Sharpsburg village. 

" On the morning of the i8th it was generally 
expected that the great battle would be renewed, but the 
rebels had given way along their line, even beyond 
where they had been driven during the day, and did not 
seem disposed to fight, and our troops were almost para- 
lyzed with exhaustion and fatigue from the day previous, 
and sleeping on their arms during the night. Sharp 
skirmishing was kept up, however, all the forenoon, but 
no general battle took place. 



112 NINTH NE W HAMPSHIRE. [September, 

" All day our men were engaged in burying our dead 
and the piles of rebels that lay dead on the ground we 
gained. At the bridge were piles of men and horses, in 
heaps together ; some rebels seemed to have died in the 
embrace of our own soldiers, and the wounds from shot 
and shell presented a ghastly sight. Large numbers of 
soldiers have been detailed to bur}' all our dead, and it 
took them two days to do it. Our wounded are well 
cared for, and have excellent attention. Good judges 
estimate our loss in killed and wounded at 8,000, and 
the rebel loss at 14,000. 

" Official list of casualties in the Ninth New Hamp- 
shire volunteers in the Battle of Antietam Bridge, Sep- 
tember 17th and i8th, 1862 : 

" Com.pany A. — Wounded: B. Wadleigh, Exeter, in 
hand; John McDermott, Kingston, thumb. Missing: 
L. H. Chase, Northfield. 

" Company B. — Wounded: James Aldrich, Lisbon, 
slightly, in eye; H. Doe, Grafton, hand; Jerome Gay, 
Canaan, breast; George Muzzey, Weare, lost finger; 
Elijah P. Purington, Weare, left arm, since amputated 
and doing w^ell ; Matthew P. Tennant, Merrimack, leg ; 
Charles H. Thompson, Gilmanton, slight; R. W. 
Swain, Gilford, in leg. 

" Company C. — Wounded : Sergeant T. J. Richards, 
Great Falls, arm; Millet W. Roberts, Milton, lost 
thumb. 

" Company D. — Killed : Joseph C. Batchelder, Deer- 
field. Wounded : Corporal Henry Boothby, Conway, 
arm; Charles F. Hall, Dover, in arm, slight; Edward 
Flanagan, Salmon Falls, mortally wounded and miss- 
ing ; J. Doherty, Salmon Falls, slight, in foot ; Moses D. 
French, Exeter, slight, in hand ; Samuel Page, Exeter, 



i862.] THE BATTLE AT ANTIETAM CREEK. I13 

slight, in back ; James Quimby, Great Falls, slight, in 

head. 

" Company E. — Missing: Corporal Albert H. Taft, 
Nelson ; Francis O'Reilley, Canterbury. None killed 
or wounded. 

" Company F. — Killed : Corporal C. M. Noyes, Great 
Falls. Wounded : G. E. Hubbard, Great Falls, leg 
amputated; J. N. Annis, Rumney, badly wounded; D. 
H. Winship, Hanover, slightly. 

" Company G. — Killed: C. B. Marvin, Claremont ; 
G. W. Russell, Claremont. Wounded: Capt. S. O. 
Whitfield, Francestown, severe wound in foot by the 
bursting of a shell ; A. J. Fletcher, Lempster, in shoul- 
der, slight; H. G. Kendall, Charlestown, hand, slight; 
W. H. Royce, Charlestown, head. Missing: J. Rugg, 
Horace Ellenwood, Amos- Bradford, Caleb Bradford, 
John A. Peaslee, G. R. Peaslee. 

" Company H. — Wounded : John Thompson, Roches- 
ter, in foot ; Michael Hester, Rochester, in arm ; First 
Sergt. H. Baxter Qiiimby, Lisbon, in side; Corporal 
Mark Staples, Whitefield, lost thumb ; William Howard, 
Rochester, lost thumb. 

"Company I. — Killed: George D. Fox, Keene. 
Wounded : First Lieut. Jacob Green, Keene, in hand ; 
Joseph Jolley, Keene, in hand ; Willis Reason, Swanzey, 
ankle ; L. W. Aldrich, 2d, Westmoreland, hand ; George 
W. McClure, Keene, head, bad; E. H. Streeter, Ches- 
terfield, foot; W. C. x\iken, Westmoreland, arm ; W. H. 
Hartwell, Keene, head; E. W. Messenger, head, 
severe; Michael Sullivan, Keene, hand, slight; First 
Sergt. C. W. Wilcox, side, slight. 

" Company K.— Killed : Almond A. Stoddard, Unity. 
Wounded: Capt. John B. Cooper, Newport, slightly, in 

VIII 



114 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [September, 

foot; Sergt. Charles Little, slightly, in ankle; Sergt. 
Gilman Leavitt, Concord, wrist; William H. Perry, 
Newport, piece of shell in side ; Samuel Meader, Tarn- 
worth, leg, slightly." 

There have been many conflicting statements regard- 
ing the order in which the several regiments of the 
Second division. Ninth corps, reached and passed over 
the stubbornly defended bridge. On this point the state- 
ment of Colonel Fellows is authority enough for the 
Ninth New Hampshire. In a letter to the Boston 
yournal oi February 8, 1893, Colonel Fellows says, — 

" At the Battle of Antietam the Second division. Ninth 
corps, was ordered to assault and carry the stone bridge. 
This division at that time was commanded by Brig. Gen. 
Samuel D. Sturgis, and composed of the First brigade, 
Brig. Gen. James Nagle, composed of the Second Mary- 
land, Lieut. Col. J. Eugene Duryea ; Sixth New Hamp- 
shire, Col. Simon G. Griffin ; Ninth New Hampshire, 
Col. Enoch Q^ Fellows ; Forty-eighth Pennsylvania, 
Lieut. Col. Joshua K. Sigfried ; the Second brigade, 
Brig. Gen. Edward Ferrero, composed of the Twenty- 
first Massachusetts, Col. William T. Clark; Thirty-fifth 
Massachusetts, Col. Edward A. Wild and Lieut. Col. 
Samuel Carruth ; Fifty-first New York, Col. Robert B. 
Potter ; Fifty-first Pennsylvania, Col. John F. Hartranft ; 
besides two batteries of artillery, commanded by Capt. 
George W. Durell and Capt. Joseph C. Clark, Jr. 

" The different regiments of the division took up posi- 
tions not far from the bridge about 10 a. m., but before 
the assault was successful became massed in close prox- 
imity. About I p. m., the successful assault was made, 
led by the Fifty-first Pennsylvania, Col. John F. Hart- 




Capt. Oscar D. Robinson, Co. E. 



i862.] THE BATTLE AT AA'TIETAM CREEK. 115 

ranft commanding, and followed in quick succession by 
the other regiments of the division in close column, with- 
out any break or interval whatever." 

In a letter to the Lebanon (N. H.) Free Press, a sol- 
dier of the Ninth regiment who has since the war taken 
a leading position among the educators of the United 
States, and whose habit of close observation and accu- 
rate statement is proverbial with his comrades, tells the 
same general story, though differing in details, thus : 

" Antietam Creek, near Sharpsburg, 

Sept. 23. 

" . . . Tuesday night we lay on our arms, and 
Wednesday at 9 a. m. were called into line and moved 
in the direction of heavy firing. The rebels, as usual, 
had chosen a splendid position. . . . As on Sun- 
day, we were ordered to the left. The enemy had here 
crossed the little stone bridge spanning the Antietam 
creek, and taken position on the table-lands beyond. 

"The creek flowed in a ravine, and though fordable 
in regard to depth, yet the steep and rugged bank on 
the other side rendered the enemy's position unapproach- 
able, ex-cept by crossing the bridge and filing up the 
narrow wagon-road. Our work was to assist in holding 
the rebels from destroying or recrossing the bridge, and 
to gain possession of the same if possible. The lines of 
infantry were formed on each side the creek, and for 
more than two hours one continued roll of musketry was 
kept up along the lines, the rebels having the advantage 
of high ground and a narrow piece of heavy woodland 
as a breastwork. The contest was desperate. 

" Our troops fought like those determined to conquer. 
Twice was the attempt made to charge across the bridge. 



Il6 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [September, 

and twice the noble fellows were compelled to fall back 
under a galling tire which laid low many of our brave 
heroes. A third attempt was made, and not in vain. 
The bridge and the day were ours, and soon General 
Burnside and stall' rode across amid the cheers of the 
victorious forces. The New Hampshire Ninth was one 
of the first to follow, leaving behind our brave and 
beloved Lieutenant-Colonel Titus, wounded in the 
shoulder, and several of his brave fellows. We were 
now separated from the rest of our brigade, and it was 
our misfortune several times during the day to come 
under a most galling fire from the rebel batteries. 

" x\bout sunset we were ordered to a large corn-field 
supposed to be thickly swarming with rebels, which we 
afterwards learned to be true. As we approached the 
field we were obliged to lie down to escape the showers 
of grape and bursting shell. We were soon covered by 
a small battery, which we hoped w^ould silence theirs 
and give us an opportunity for action ; but to our disap- 
pointment, after firing a few shots they withdrew, as we 
afterwards learned, for want of ammunition, leaving us 
entirely unprotected and the enemy advancing upon us 
in superior force. The regiments at our right and left 
also withdrew, and the general sent a verbal dispatch to 
our colonel that our only safety was in reaching the ford. 

[" Hearsay only," is the authority for the closing 
statement in the preceding paragraph.] 

" We immediately fell back to the creek under a per- 
fect shower of grape and canister, which wounded sev- 
eral of our men, and few of us came over 'dry shod.' 

" It was late at night before we again got organized, 
and hence we obtained but little sleep. Thursday, the 
infantry was not engaged on the left, except in skirmish- 



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117 



ing. Our force was small, but we threw out a heavy 
picket force and kept the enemy ignorant of our true 
condition. We lay all day close to the ground under 
the brow of a hill, and not more than two hundred rods 
from the enemy. At night we were relieved, and fell 
back to camp. Friday the rebels had retreated, leaving 
behind a powerful rear-guard, which engaged our artil- 
lery through the day. We advanced three or four miles 
in the direction of Harper's Ferry, and since then have 
enjoyed the great luxury of a short rest. 

"This has doubtless been one of the greatest battles 
of the campaign, its line extending nearly ten miles, and 
conducted by the greatest generals on both sides. I 
have passed over some portions of the left, and it pre- 
sents a spectacle which I have no desire to see repeated. 
Broken implements of war, mutilated and stiffened 
bodies, and steeds which had fallen beneath their 
riders no more to rise, strewed the ground for miles. 
Many a noble youth has here lain down in his final 
sleep, whose beloved mother or cherished sister will 
never weep at his grave ; but they have nobly per- 
formed their duty, — bravely fought and nobly fell, 
and the blessings accruing to posterity through this 
bloody struggle shall be their living eulogies. The 
entire loss I am unable to state. It is said ' our men 
lay in heaps, and the rebels lay heaps on heaps'." 



ON THE BLUFFS. 



The historian of the Sixth New Hampshire, speaking 
of the order in which the different regiments formed on 
the right bank, after the bridge had been carried, says, — 
"The Sixth advanced up the bluff opposite the bridge, 



Il8 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [September, 

and was the first to form in line on the crest of the ridge, 
where it received a storm of shot and shell from the 
enemy's batteries in the distance." This statement is 
doubtless correct, in the sense that there were no other 
regiments formed in sight of the Sixth when its men 
reached the crest of the bluff, but the same, if not more, 
ma}' be said of the Ninth. There were no blue coats or 
Federal colors in sicjht when the men of the Ninth New 
Hampshire, though soldiers of only three weeks' dura- 
tion, lined up on the eastern edge of the bluff and ad- 
vanced to meet Toombs's Confederates, who were com- 
ing in on their left flank, and notwithstanding the ter- 
rific fire of muskets and heavy guns, drove them to 
cover. The Ninth New Hampshire prepared the way 
for the Ninth New York, who, coming in from the left, 
and then passing the soldiers from the Granite state in 
the rear, made their daring, resistless, and ever since 
famous, charge on a Confederate battery, capturing, 
and for a time holding, the guns in spite of a heavy fire 
and the onslaught of vastly superior numbers. 

After the New Hampshire heroes had played their part 
in the great tragedy, they were placed, with the rest of 
their division, in reserve. The long day of blood and 
strife was drawing to a close. How fierce and bitter the 
contest had been, a glance over the field and then at the 
decimated ranks of the army showed. The morning 
sunshine had thrown its glad beams over fields of waving 
corn and valleys teeming with life and beauty. That 
same sun, as it slowly sank behind the mountains that 
night, was veiled in the thick clouds of smoke that rose 
from the field of battle, as if unwilling to look upon the 
ruin and devastation of the fair scene. All around were 
the dead and wounded and the accoutrements of war. 



i862.] THE BATTLE AT ANTIETAM CREEK. 119 

The tall corn that had rustled its gleaming blades so 
proudly in the morning breeze was now trodden under 
foot, and served that night in lieu of a better couch to 
many a poor fellow. 



COUNTING THE COST. 

What better test of the bravery and courage of its 
men can a regiment offer than its list of killed and 
wounded ? When the men of the Ninth New Hamp- 
shire again answered the roll-call, an ominous silence 
followed the reading of many a name. In addition to 
the list given in the Mirror correspondence, these have 
been gleaned from other sources : 

Wounded. — Company A, Charles Wallace ; Company 
G, Corp. Lorenzo M. Upham ; Company H, Stephen 
G. Symister. 

Just as at South Mountain, so at Antietam the mem- 
bers of the regimental band found plenty to do in their 
humane though dangerous task of bearing the wounded 
from the field. One of the " faithful" thus writes of the 
day's doings : 

"The engagement [artillery] began about seven 
o'clock this morning. Taking our stretchers and mov- 
ing forward, we found, on the edge of a corn-field, a 
member of Company I named Messenger, badly 
wounded in the head, and carried him to the hospital. 
By the time we got back the brigade had become en- 
gaged, and several had been wounded, the brigade at 
this time being stationed near the stone bridge. 

"Dr. Webster had established a hospital, to the left 
and lower down, in an old barn, and thither we were 



I20 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [September, 

ordered to bear the wounded, of whom there were now a 
great many. Simonds and myself brought thirteen 
men from our own and other regiments without stopping, 
and I doubt not that the other boys were equally as busy. 
In no other battle afterward, I think, were we kept so 
closely at work, none of us resting all day." 

The wounding of Private E. M. Messenger was one 
of the remarkable incidents of the battle. Near the 
stone bridge, in the position first occupied by the regi- 
ment in this action. Private Messenger, while in the act 
of firing, received two wounds from the same bullet. 
The ball carried away a portion of the left thumb, and 
then entering the forehead over the right eye, passed out 
in front of the right ear, felling him to the ground. 
With the blood streaming from these wounds, he w^as 
removed from the field for dead, and was mourned as 
the first man killed instantly in Company I. Later in 
the day, however, he was discovered to be alive, and 
was carried to the Miller farm-house, where he slowly 
recovered. To-day he suffers but little inconvenience 
from these wounds, except from loss of sight of the right 
eye. 

Capt. Charles W. Edgerly contributes the following 
incident of heroic conduct : 

" On the i8th day of September, 1862, the next day 
after the great battle of Antietam, the Ninth New Hamp- 
shire was deployed as skirmishers, and at times the fir- 
ing between our lines and the rebels' was both rapid and 
heavy. In front of us (Company H) was a plowed field, 
and about ten o'clock in the forenoon, while the bullets 
were whistling over our heads, I heard a voice that 
sounded like a child crying for help, and it appeared to 
come from the plowed field in our front. Every few 



i862.] THE BATTLE AT ANTIETAM CREEK. I2I 

minutes would come the cry for help, and at last I saw a 
head lifted above the ground about thirty yards in front 
of my post. One of my men, John W. Garland, also 
saw this at the same time, but in a moment more the 
head dropped back out of sight, though we could still 
locate the place where it had appeared by a small tree 
near by. 

" Whoever it was that was making this pitiful appeal, 
I wanted to rescue him, but what with the sharpshooters 
in the trees and the rebels behind a stone wall it looked 
risky. Garland promptly volunteered to go and get him, 
but I said that while I would be very glad to have him 
save the boy I was afraid he himself would get shot, and 
I would not order him or any other man to go where I 
was afraid to lead. He insisted on at least making the 
attempt, and by my order took off" his knapsack. Start- 
ing on the run, he quickly reached the spot, picked up 
the boy, for such he proved to be, and in a trice came 
back to my post and laid the boy down at my feet. 

"I do n't think a single shot was tired at Garland, 
either in going or returning. The poor little fellow for 
whom he had so bravely risked his life was badly wound- 
ed in his leg, and had lain upon the cold, bare ground 
since the previous afternoon. In answer to my questions 
he said that he belonged to the Eighth Connecticut, and 
that his regiment had retreated and left him on the field. 

" I told Garland then and there that his deed was a 
heroic one, and as long as I lived to tell the story he 
should have the credit that belonged to him. At my 
request he took the boy on his back and carried him to 
the field hospital a quarter of a mile away. Soon after 
this Garland was himself taken sick, but refused to go to 
the hospital, keeping with his company until we arrived 



122 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [September, 

at Berlin, near Harper's Ferry, where he died, — a truly 
brave and noble man." 

Among the officers who were severely wounded were 
Lieut. Col. Herbert B. Titus and Captains John B. 
Cooper and Smith O. Whitfield. Lieut. Col. Titus was 
himself taking an active part in the conflict, having 
picked up the rifle of a disabled soldier, when he was 
struck in the side by a bullet and compelled to leave the 
field. As the word was passed along the line, expres- 
sions of sorrow and regret were heard on all sides. The 
disabling of two of their best captains as well, was 
naturally trying to soldiers so lately brought into 
action, and it is greatly to the credit of the Ninth New 
Hampshire that the work assigned them was performed 
so faithfully and well ; and in so doing it, they were as 
essential a factor in the victory as those who were placed 
in more conspicuous positions. 



AROUND THE CAMP-FIRE.— GENERAL NAGLE'S REPORT. 

It is pleasing to note that the regiment received fitting 
recognition in official circles. Brig. Gen. James Nagle, 
in his report to Brig. Gen. S. D. Sturgis, thus particu- 
larized its service : 

" The Ninth New Hampshire volunteers (Col. E. Q^ 
Fellows) were placed near the bridge, and opened a 
destructive fire directly upon the enemy, and expended 
nearly all their ammunition during a gallant resistance 
of an hour, in which they were between the fires of two 
regiments of the enemy, and sustained themselves 
nobly." 

Apropos to this commendation of the regiment is a 
story told of one of the men in Company F. Just as the 



1862.1 THE BATTLE AT ANTIETAM CREEK. 1 23 

regiment was getting into position at the rail fence, the 
man fell flat on the ground. "Get up!" shouted the 
captain. "I can't," said the man; and the captain 
finally ordered some of the men to lay him under the 
bank' where he wouldn't get hit. The next day the 
man reported for duty. He had been completely pros- 
trated by nervous excitement. 



THE HONORED DEAD. 

Private Charles Marvin, of Company G, was the first 
man to fall at Antietam. The men were lying flat on 
their bellies on the under brow of the hill, just after 
they had moved from the rail fence. Comrade Joseph 
C. Chapman heard the hissing of the bullet which struck 
Marvin in the forehead, killing him instantly. While 
they were under the rail fence, Private George W. Rus- 
sell was shot in the bowels, and lived but a few hours. 
When the regiment crossed the bridge and charged in 
the open ground near the corn-field, Private Joseph C. 
Batchelder, of Company D, was shot down. 

Corporal Charles M. Noyes, of Company F, was a 
Somersworth boy, and very popular with his comrades, 
to whom he was best- known by the familiar name of 
"Minty." He was buried at Antietam, but his body 
was afterwards sent to his home at Great Falls, through 
the kindness of Quartermaster Moses, who tells the story 
of his efforts to fulfil the wishes of friends as follows : 

"October i, 1862, I received a letter from Rev. 
Samuel A. Collins, of Great Falls (who had just heard 
of'Minty's' death), asking me, in behalf of the boy's 
father. Deacon Milton Noyes, if possible, to disinter his 
body and have it sent home. 



124 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [September, 

" The next day I went over to Sharpsburg and made 
a bargain for two boxes, one within the other, in which 
to put the body. For these I was to pay fifteen dollars, 
but I threw up the bargain, because on the third day I 
got a box for six dollars, and then engaged a man to 
take the body to Hagerstown for five dollars ; so that I 
got the whole thing arranged for four dollars less than I 
would otherwise have paid for the boxes. On the 4th 
day of October I went to Sharpsburg and hired a Mr. 
Samuel Shaw to go with his wagon to Antietam for the 
body. 

" We disinterred the body, with the help of young 
Wentworth and John Whitehouse, and found that the 
bullet had struck him on the left side near the heart, and 
had passed obliquely through the body and out at the 
hip. 

" I took the box (two in one) to Hagerstown, Pa., 
which was about fourteen miles distant, across the state 
line. We arrived there at ten o'clock p. m., and placed 
the body in the care of Mr. Charles Lane, undertaker, 
who enclosed it in a metallic casket, and delivered it at 
the depot on Monday. All my expenses were paid by 
Deacon Noyes." 



THE COMRADES' OWN STORIES. 

In an engagement where there were so many casual- 
ties, no man knew when his turn might come, and man}^ 
incidents are told in the diaries and letters of the men, 
of narrow escapes and queer happenings of the field ; 
things that to outsiders might seem but trivialties, but to 
men whose lives were hanging by a thread, everything 
w^as of importance. 



i862.] THE BATTLE AT ANTIETAM CREEK. 



125 



Fifteen Inches Long. — A member of Company F tells 
how, as the men were going down the hill to the rail 
fence, the enemy was sending showers of railroad iron 
into their midst. One piece (he says it was fifteen 
inches long, and doubtless it was,) whizzed by his head 
and went rolling end over end down the hill. 

" With Pleasure, Captain."' — A little fellow in the 
same company got " rattled" while loading his gun, and 
having disabled the piece by beginning to load with the 
bullet, was sharply reprimanded by the captain, who 
ordered him to go back and find "some dead man's 
gun" to replace his own. "With pleasure. Captain," 
said the boy, and the order of his going was anything 
but slow. 

"■Hadn't Thought of It.'" — Wesley Simonds, of Com- 
pany I, shortly after leaving the rail fence, had the sole 
of one shoe cut completely ofTby a bullet, and then went 
around barefooted. By and by he volunteered to go on 
the skirmish line, and was starting off with 

" One shoe off, and one shoe on," 

a la " my son, John," when a comrade, noticing his 
sorry plight, said, " Simonds, what are you going 'round 
barefoot for, when there 's plenty of shoes lying 'round 
here, doing nobody any good?" "Sure enough," said 
Simonds; "strange I never thought of that!" and a 
" mate" if not a " perfect fit" was soon found. 

Didn't Ask Why. — After the Ninth had crossed the 
bridge and was getting into position on the heights 
beyond. Captain Andrew J. Stone and Private Herman 
A. Clement, of Company F, were standing side by side. 
The captain, who was closely watching the enemy's 
movements, saw a shell coming towards them. 



1 26 NINTH NE W HAMPSHIRE. [September, 

" Drop ! " yelled the captain, and Clement did n't stop to 
ask why, but promptly " dropped." The shell passed 
directly over them, and buried itself in the ground just 
beyond. This was but one of many similar occurrences. 

Singular Woiinds. — W. W. and J. H. Humphrey, of 
Company E, were brothers, from Plaintield. One was 
right and the other left-handed. The right-handed one 
lost his right thumb, and the left-handed one had his left 
thumb or finger shot off. Such were \}i\Q. freaks of war. 

A Choice of Weafons. — Two men from Company E 
had a somewhat novel experience. During the forenoon 
of the 17th they were sent to a well about a half mile in 
the rear of the Union line to fill the canteens. The path 
to the well lay across a field at that time occupied by one 
of the ambulance trains. One of the enemy's batteries 
had just been turned on the defenceless position, with the 
immediate result that the train was making a flight, more 
rapid than orderly, to safer quarters. But the canteens 
must be filled ; so our heroes pursue the even tenor of 
their way, while shot and shell fly — hissing ! plowing ! ! 
screaming ! ! ! and bursting ! ! ! ! — all around them. Sud- 
denly, with a terrific scream and crash, a huge shell 
strikes a tree directly in front of them, and — surely their 
time has come ! — a perfect shower oi green apples falls 
on their devoted heads ! Green apples are hard, but bullets 
are harder ; and thanking their lucky stars that no worse 
misfortune had befallen them, they proceeded on their 
way, filled the canteens, and returned unharmed. 

" fokmn'' and his Mule. — Since leaving Washington 
the regiment had been attended by a mascot, as some of 
the men seemed to think, in the shape of a little darkey 
about five years old. Attracted by the music he had fol- 
lowed the regiment out of the city, and as he could not 



i862.] THE BATTLE AT ANTIETAM CREEK. 127 

be persuaded to return the men had adopted him. An old 
mule picked up by the way was pressed into service as 
a charger, and, decked out in an improvised uniform, 
"Jokum " and his mule followed the fortunes of the Ninth. 

At South Mountain he kept close behind till the order 
came to "Charge bayonets!" Then Jokum seemed to 
realize that it was time for him to beat a retreat, and with 
the remark "Guess I 'd bettah git out o' heah fo' I gits 
hurted !" made his mule " about face," and was soon out 
of sight. Nothing more was seen of him that day, or 
the next, and the men began to fear their little favorite 
had come to grief. 

But Jokum had not forgotten his friends, and at Antie- 
tam he turned up again, still sticking to his mule, right 
in the thick of the fight. Dodging the bullets, — now on 
this side, and now on that, — he finally made his way to 
the regiment. " I b'longs to yer, an' I'se gwine to stick 
to yer ! " was his greeting. 

He followed the regiment closely after this, sometimes 
on his mule, often on foot, and again in a baggage 
wagon. The boys made him a neat uniform, provided 
him with a small blanket and haversack, and saw to it 
always that Jokum was comfortably clothed and fed. 

The lad was a perfect mimic, and " caught on" easily 
to the various peculiar phrases of the men and the ways 
of camp life. He would take up his position in a com- 
pany street, and go through perfectly all the details of a 
dress parade or guard mount, not only giving the com- 
mands of the different officers and the varied reports of 
the non-commissioned officers, but so closely imitadng 
their tones of voice and peculiar gestures as to create all 
manner of sport for the men and make himself a regi- 
mental character. 



128 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [September, 

Soon after the Battle of Fredericksburg, Sergeant 
Robinson had ordered from New Hampshire a complete 
new suit of clothes especially for Jokum. When the 
box arrived the sergeant was sick in the hospital, but 
some of the boys got "Jok" into their tent and pro- 
ceeded to introduce him into his new " toggery." 
" What do you think of them, "Jok ?" said one. "I 
tink Sergeant Robinson must have pretty rich wife to 
send me so much nice tings," was the quick reply. As 
Sergeant Robinson was a " lone bachelor" in those days, 
he didn't hear the last of his " rich wife" for a long time 
to come. 

Jokum kept with the regiment until April, 1863, when 
the Ninth was at Baltimore, on its way to the farther 
west and south. Sorry as they were to part with Jokum, 
it seemed cruel to expose him longer to the dangers of 
the field, and at the first opportunity he was sent back to 
Washington. 

Dodging a Fence Stake. — It has already been told, in 
the story of the battle, how the gallant charge of the 
Ninth New Hampshire up the crest of the hill beyond 
the bridge, opened up the way for the carrying of the 
Confederate battery by the Ninth New York ; but there 
is one little episode, which escaped the general historian, 
that the New Hampshire boys had many a hearty laugh 
about afterwards, though they thought it rather a grim 
joke at the time. 

The crest of the bluff had been gained. Ofi' to the 
right was the Confederate battery ; directly in front, a 
body of infantry ; on the left, a high rail fence, built in 
true southern style, the supporting pickets — sometimes 
long and sometimes short — crossed in zig-zag fashion. 
Through a gap in this fence, just as the line was being 



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129 



formed for an advance charge, came another body of 
the enemy. The New Hampshire boys were not to be 
caught napping. Wheehng quickly to the left, they 
charged on the surprised Confederates, and drove them 
towards the body in front. The battery, meanwhile, 
was getting in some close work. Four shots were fired 
in their attempt to dislodge the Ninth, the first three 
being faulty in aim and doing no harm ; but the fourth 
laid low four men in Company K. Again the line was 
being formed, when through the same gap in the fence 
came the Ninth New York with a rush ; though how 
they got there has always been a mystery to every one 
but themselves. 

Just then — whiz ! zip ! — came a shot from the battery. 
Something went whirling through the air just above the 
New Yorkers' heads, turning over and over and making 
every man dodge as it passed. It was only the top of 
one of the long rail pickets, cut off by the shot, but it 
was a deadly-looking missile to the gallant Zouaves, 
brave men though they were. 

An Impromptu Ride. — " As we were crossing the lane 
near the bridge, we did not move in very regular order, 
and just as I reached the top rail of the fence I saw a 
sow, with her litter of pigs, come running up the bank 
from the creek. The poor thing was so frightened she 
didn't know which way to turn, and came rushing pell- 
mell through the ranks, catching one of the men between 
the legs and carrying him off astride her back, his rifie 
waving in the air and he shouting for help at the top of 
his voice. Without doubt both steed and rider were glad 
when the impromptu ride came to an end." 

More Scared Than Hurt. — The ball which killed 
George D. Fox, of Company I, passed directly through 



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130 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [September, 

his body and struck Sergeant Henry E. Hubbard fair in 
the belt, nearly knocking the breath out of him. Cap- 
tain Babbitt, somewhat disconcerted at this double loss, 
hurriedly asked Hubbard if he was badly hurt. " I guess 
I 'ma goner this time, Cap," w^as the answer; but an 
examination disclosed the fatal bullet safely ensconced in 
the apparently dying man's cartridge-box. Hubbard 
was thoroughly disgusted at this commonplace ending to 
his adventure, and ever afterwards held to the opinion 
that it was " a mighty mean piece of business to pound a 
man most to death and not draw a drop of blood to show 
for it ! " 

Rather a Close Call. — While the regiment was await- 
ing orders at the bridge, just before the grand charge up 
the hill was made. Lieutenant Green, of Company I, 
was sitting down with his back comfortably resting 
against a tree. Pretty soon there came a raking fire 
from the battery perched on the heights beyond, and the 
men began to look for cover ; but Lieutenant Green was 
quite well satisfied with his position and stuck to his seat. 
All at once there came a perfect shower of balls, and the 
lieutenant ducked with the rest. None too soon, either, 
for a huge shot had imbedded itself in the tree not three 
feet from the ground. Slowly picking himself up, the 
now thoroughly frightened man ejaculated, " Mein 
Gott, boys, see vere I haf been sitting ! " 

One on the Sergeant. — Lieut. C. W. Wilcox tells this 
one on himself. "At the first Sunday morning regimen- 
tal inspection after the Battle of Antietam, as first ser- 
geant of Company I, I went to the quartermaster to 
obtain the overcoats which belonged to the company, 
and which had recently been returned from Washing- 
ton. When I got back the company was all formed 




Charles M. Bi.aisdkll. 




Charles M. Blaisdell, Co. F. 



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i862.] THE BATTLE AT ANTIETAM CREEK. 131 

and ready to take their place on the line for inspection. 
The second sergeant turned the company over to me, I 
to the captain, and we immediately started and took our 
position in line. Company I being on the extreme right 
of the regiment, and I the first man to be inspected. 
Throwing my gun to the colonel, he looked it over and 
exclaimed, ' You, an orderly sergeant, to come out with 
such a gun as that ! Look at it ! ' Then he gave me a 
regular Scotch blessing, to which I could make no 
reply. On returning to camp I found the man who had 
taken my gun and left his for me to take, in a hurry. I 
then took mine to Captain Babbitt, who went with me 
to the colonel, where proper explanations were made 
and I was relieved from an unjust imputation." 

A Solid Shot. — Comrade Wilcox relates another inci- 
dent, which occurred just after the regiment had marched 
down the ravine running past the brick house and halted 
near the main road leading to the stone bridge, but a few 
rods distant, the wooded bluff" on the right serving as a 
cover from the shot and shell of the enemy. While wait- 
ing there, he and several other members of Company I, 
which had the right of the regiment, climbed up the 
bluff', from the west side of which could be obtained a 
good view of the bridge and the surrounding country as 
well. Just as they were nearing the top a solid shot 
struck a tree directly above and in front of them. It is 
needless to say that this little episode fully satisfied their 
curiosity, as amid flying splinters and dropping branches 
the adventurers made double-quick time in descending 
and returning to their company, the regiment soon after 
filing to the right into the main road and taking up posi- 
tion behind a rail fence between the road and the creek. 
In 1892 Comrade Wilcox and his wife, together with 



132 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [September, 

Comrades Alvah R. Davis and William H. Perr}^ of 
Company K, visited the Antietam battle-field. Before 
reachincf the ravine Comrade Wilcox related the above 
incident, stating that he was confident, although thirty 
years had passed since it occurred, he could go directly 
to the spot if the tree were still standing. Arriving at the 
locality, the tree was quickly found, the trunk still bear- 
ing the tell-tale scar where the shot had struck it about 
three feet above the ground, though it had not gone clear 
through, as Comrade Wilcox had heretofore supposed. 
He afterwards tried to procure that section of the tree as 
a memento, but without success. 



AFTER THE BATTLE. 

A long and bloody battle had been fought. The Ninth 
Army corps had covered itself with glory, and General 
Burnside had reason to be proud of his dauntless com- 
mand. All that brave men could do to win the day, 
they had done. Though the enemy had made a stand 
at a point that to a fainter-hearted leader might easily 
have proved itself a veritable Gibraltar, he had been 
routed ; and to the Ninth Army corps belongs the honor 
of having taken the most advanced position. 

The following despatch from General McClellan car- 
ries its own explanation : 



Head-quarters. 

Keedysville, Md., 



September 18, 1862. — 8 a. m. 



Maj. Gen. H. W. Halleck, 

General-in-Chief Uttited States Army: 
The battle of yesterday continued for fourteen hours, and until after 
dark. We held all we gained, except a portion of the extreme left; 
that was obliged to abandon a part of what it had gained. Our loss 



i862.] THE BATTLE AT ANTIETAM CREEK. 1 33 

very heavy, especially in general officers. The battle will probably be 

renewed to-day. Send all the troops you can by the most expeditious 

route. 

Geo. B. McClellan, 

Major- General, Comtnamiing. 

But the anticipations of the commanding general in 
regard to a renewal of the conflict were not realized. 
There was some artillery firing, but no general engage- 
ment. Enough re-enforcements had come up during the 
night to nearly cover the losses of the preceding day, 
but still General McClellan hung back ; evidently pre- 
ferring, if any more fighting were to be done, that 
General Lee should take the initiative. In the mean 
time the men were caring for the wounded, burying the 
dead, and getting what rest they could for themselves. 
The Ninth corps was strengthened by the addition of 
General Morell's division (First) of the Fifth corps, 
which was at once detailed to relieve the skirmishers, 
among whom were some of the Ninth New Hampshire. 

To the wily foe, however, this delay in attacking was 
an unexpected boon, and he hastened to take advantage 
of it. Everything that would tend to retard him in his 
flight was left behind. Let the wounded and the dead 
go uncared for and unburied ! None of the debris of 
battle for him. Let the Yankees take care of that. But 
he took good care that none of the rich booty from 
HarDer's Ferrv should fall into their hands. 

No sooner was the flight of the enemy discovered, on 
the morning of the 19th, than the Army of the Potomac 
was started in hot pursuit. Burnside's command was 
ordered down the road to Antietam Iron Works, but 
finding, on reaching the Potomac, that the enemy had 
placed his batteries in a commanding position on the 
Virginia shore, the Ninth corps went into camp a short 



134 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [September, 

distance above Antietam creek, and waited for the rest 
of the command to come up. It was during this cessa- 
tion of hostilities that General Sturgis issued the follow- 
ing congratulatory order : 

Head-Quarters, 2d Division, qth A. C. 

Antietam, Sept. 20, 1862. 
General Order 

No. II. 

The General Commanding the Division avails himself of this lull in 
the roar of battle to return his thanks to the officers and troops for 
their handsome behavior in the Battles of South Mountain and Antie- 
tam Bridge, and to say to them that he has been assured by General 
Burnside, that General McClellan considers the carrying the Bridge as 
having saved the day. 

While, therefore, we have reason to be proud of our successes, we 
should remember that they were achieved through the loss of many of 
our brave comrades : — among whom was the gallant and distinguished 
Maj. Gen. Jesse L. Reno, who led this Division so often to victory. 
He was a classmate and bosom friend of the General Commanding, — 
a man of the highest integrity, and one who loved his country beyond 
all earthly things, and shrank from no danger in defending it. 

His last words were, " I can no longer be with my men; let them 
know I will still be with them in spirit." 

His spirit was with them indeed, and led them across Antietam 
Bridge ; thus saving the army after death. 
By order of 

Brig'r Gen'l S. D. Sturgis. 

Wm. C. Rawolle, 

Capt. and Ch. 0/ Arty. 
Official Copy. 

Attest. John Edwin Mason, 

Acting Ass Y Adj. Gen V, 
1st Brigade, ()t/i A. C. 

Had not the division so thoroughly deserved the praise 
of General Sturgis, the pleasant tone of the commander's 
orders might have easily been attributed to the witching 



i862.] THE BATTLE AT ANTIETAM CREEK. 135 

Strains of the Ninth regiment band ; for one of its mem- 
bers, writing under date of September 19 (the day pre- 
ceding the date of the order), says, — "We played at 
our division commander's (General Sturgis's) quarters, 
who at once became one of our very best friends." 

The final result of the flight and pursuit is told in the 
brief resume of events given in the following despatches : 

Head-Quarters Army of the Potomac. 

September ig, 1862 — 8: 30 a. m. 

(Received 11 a. m.) 
Maj. Gen. H. W. Halleck, 

General-in-Chief : 
But little occurred yesterday except skirmishing, being fully occupied 
in replenishing ammunition, taking care of wounded, &c. Last night 
the enemy abandoned his position, leaving his dead and wounded on 
the field. We are again in pursuit. I do not yet know whether he is 
falling back to an interior position, or crossing the river. We may 
safely claim a complete victory. 

Geo. B. McClellan, 

Major- General. 



Head-Quarters Army of the Potomac. 

62 — 10 : 30 a. 
(Received 11 a. m.) 



' September 19, 1862 — 10:30 a. m 



Maj. Gen. H. W. Halleck, 

General-in-Chief : 
Pleasanton is driving the enemy across the river. Our victory was 
complete. The enemy is driven back into Virginia. Maryland and 
Pennsylvania are now safe. 

Geo. B. McClellan, 

Major- General. 

Yes, Maryland and Pennsylvania were safe. The 
invasion of Maryland had yielded less than had been 
expected. The people had shown loyalty where the 
Confederates had confidently looked for rebellion. 
"Barbara Frietchie " but gave voice to the unspoken 



136 NliYTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [September, 

loyalty that animated the hearts of the Marylanders in 
their treatment of the Union troops. General Lee's own 
expectations, too, had been disappointed. There had 
been no great victory, unless the pusillanimous surrender 
of Harper's Ferry be so considered. Neither moral nor 
material injury had been inflicted on the Union resources. 
The evacuation of the Federal capital had not been com- 
passed. The Confederate government, as a government 
de jure, had not been acknowledged by the governments 
of France and England, and the independence of the 
Confederate states had not been achieved. All these had 
been the avowed objects of the invasion. 

When Lee crossed the Potomac, he was playing for a 
big stake. Though he had not been annihilated or cap- 
tured, as the despatch of Governor Curtin had prophe- 
sied, yet he had lost the game. It is too ridiculous to 
be amusing, but it is most certainly sad, to note the com- 
ments of the Confederate journalists at this time. The 
Richmond Enquirer, of September 22, 1862, has the 
following report of the battle of Wednesday, the 17th : 

" We have the gratification of being able to announce 
that the battle resulted in one of the most complete vic- 
tories that has yet immortalized the Confederate arms. 
The ball was opened on Tuesday evening about six 
o'clock, all of our available forces, about 60,000 strong, 
commanded by General Robert E. Lee in person, and 
the enemy, about 150,000 strong, commanded by Gen- 
eral McClellan in person, being engaged. 

" The position of our arm}^ was upon a range of hills, 
forming a semi-circle, with the concave towards the 
enemy ; the latter occupying a less commanding position 
opposite, their extreme right resting upon a height com- 
manding our extreme left. The arrangement of our line 



i862.] THE BATTLE AT ANTIETAM CREEK. 1 37 

was as follows : General Jackson on the extreme left. 
General Longstreet in the centre, and General A. P. 
Hill on the extreme right. 

" The fight on Tuesday evening was kept up until 
nine o'clock at night, when it subsided into spasmodic 
skirmishes along the line. Wednesday morning it was 
renewed by General Jackson, and gradually became 
general. Both armies retained their respective posi- 
tions, and fought desperately throughout the entire day. 
During this battle Sharpsburg was fired by the enemy's 
shells, and at one time the enemy obtained a position 
which enabled them to pour a flanking fire upon a por- 
tion of our left wing, causing it to waver. 

"At this moment. General Starke, of Mississippi, who 
had command of General Jackson's division, galloped 
up to the front of his brigade, and seizing the standard, 
rallied them forward. No sooner did the gallant gen- 
eral thus throw himself in the van than four bullets 
pierced his body and he fell dead amidst his men. The 
efl^ect, instead of discouraging them, fired them with de- 
termination and revenge, and they dashed forward, 
drove the enemy back, and kept them from the position 
during, the rest of the day. 

" It being evident that the ' Young Napoleon,' finding 
he could not force his way through the invincible ranks 
of our army in that direction, had determined upon a 
flank movement towards Harper's Ferry, to thus obtain 
a position in our rear. General Lee, with ready fore- 
sight, anticipated the movement by drawing the main 
body of his army back on the south side of the Potomac, 
at Shepherdstown, Va., whence he will, of course, pro- 
ject the necessary combinations for again defeating his 
adversary. 



138 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [September, 

"The enemy's artillery was served with disastrous 
effect upon our gallant troops, but they replied from 
musket, howitzer, and cannon with a rapidity and will 
that carried havoc amidst the opposing ranks. The 
battle was one of the most severe that has been fought 
since the opening of the war. Many of our brave men 
fell. At dark the firing ceased, and in the morning, 
Thursday, our army was ready to recommence the 
engagement, the enemy having been forced back the 
evening before, and the advantage of the battle being all 
on our side. 

"The prisoners stated that their force was more than 
100,000 strong, and that McClellan commanded the army 
in person. 

" Our loss is estimated at 5,000 in killed, wounded, 
and missing. The prisoners state that their ranks were 
greatly decimated, and that the slaughter was terrible, 
from which we may infer that the enemy's loss was fully 
as great, if not greater, than our own." 

The Petersburg Express, of September 23, says, — 
" We think that General Lee has very wisely with- 
drawn his army from Maryland, the co-operation of 
whose people in his plans and purposes was indispensa- 
ble for success. They have failed to respond to his 
noble appeal in the desired way, and the victories of 
Sharpsburg and Boonsborough, purchased with torrents 
of blood, have been rendered unprofitable in a material 
point of view. 

"They have, moreover, deepened the impression upon 
the enemy of the previous lessons which we gave him in 
the art of fighting, and though they may exult, in their 
crazy fashion, over imaginary successes heralded in the 
lying despatches of McClellan and his trumpet-blowers. 



i862.] THE BATTLE AT ANTIETAM CREEK. 1 39 

and no less lying correspondents and editors of the Lin- 
coln journals, yet they will be willing enough to let Lee 
and his army alone on this side of the Potomac. 

"We can now put matters to rights in Virginia, and 
turn our attention to Piermont and the Baltimore & Ohio 
railroad. The former will soon be disposed of, and we 
trust that a portion of our army will be immediately set 
to work to destroy the latter in a way to render its 
reconstruction impracticable. Every bridge, tunnel, and 
culvert should be forthwith demolished — every embank- 
ment levelled, every cut filled up, and every cross-tie 
and rail removed, from Harper's Ferry to Wheeling and 
Parkersburg. 

"The road has been a source of nothing but evil to 
the state since it was made, and more especially since 
the commencement of the war. Along its whole line 
the taint of disloyalty and treason is to be seen. It has 
more or less Yankeeized the entire region between its 
track and the Pennsylvania border, from the Ohio to the 
Potomac. 

"The recrossing of the Potomac by our forces does 
not at all disturb us. Under the circumstances it was a 
most judicious movement, and in no manner or degree 
prejudicial to our interests in a military point of view, — 
save and except the losses we sustained in the sanguinary 
battles in Maryland, which are to be deeply deplored. 

"But the enemy suffered in this respect far more than 
we did, and although this is no adequate consolation or 
compensation to us in the premises, yet it assures us 
that the blows which we struck lost nothing of their 
vigor and efficacy by the brief change which was made 
in the seat of war." 

While the results of the campaign, so far, were not 



140 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [September, 

what the Confederates had desired and expected, neither 
had they been to the Federals' Hking. They had hoped 
that the Army of Northern Virginia might be utterly 
destroyed, and the Rebellion brought to an end. What 
might have been accomplished had it not been for that 
famous fog, the weariness of the Union soldiers, and 
General McClellan's excessive caution, it is useless to 
speculate. We can only believe that everything was 
and is ordered for the best. 

Notwithstanding the failure of his plans at.Antietam, 
it is quite certain that McClellan had in mind a cam- 
paign of extermination, for in his own published state- 
ment he says, — "It must be borne constantly in mind 
that the purpose of advancing from Washington was 
simply to meet the necessities of the moment by frus- 
trating Lee's invasion of the northern states, and, when 
that was accomplished, to push with the utmost rapidity 
the work of re-organization and supply, so that a new 
campaign might be promptly inaugurated with the army 
in condition to prosecute it to a successful termination 
without intermission." 

But the cruel war into which the men of the Ninth New 
Hampshire had enlisted was by no means nearing an end. 
What they had yet undergone was only the introduction 
to hardships before which their wildest phantasies would 
fade. Their initiation had been a trying one, yet they 
had stood the test nobly. 



CHAPTER V. 
From Antietam to Fredericksburg. 

The smoke of the Battle of Antietam had cleared 
awav, and the cessation of hostilities was a welcome res- 
pite from the incessant strain to which the Ninth New 
Hampshire had been subjected since the morning of the 
14th of September. The natural reaction set in, and for 
a few days the men devoted themselves to a general re- 
cuperation of mind and body. At such times one is 
not given to writing much, and it is at best but a frag- 
mentary story that can be written of the weeks that inter- 
vened between the battles of Antietam and Fredericks- 
burg. 

Friday, the 19th, Companies I and G were ordered 
out as an advance picket guard, but the rest of the regi- 
ment was again occupying the little grove near the creek, 
where only two days before the roar of cannon and rattle 
of musketry were all about them and the dead and 
wounded lay on every hand. 

Since early Thursday morning the chaplains and their 
aids had been upon the field, superintending the removal 
of the wounded and identifying the dead ; searching their 
pockets for letters — written perhaps on the eve of the 
battle — and trinkets that could be forwarded to the friends 
at home, to whom these last tokens of the loved and lost 
would be forever dear. 

Sometimes in their quest they disturbed a weary 
sleeper, all unconscious of his ghastly surroundings, and 



142 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [September, 

were occasionally greeted with more emphasis than ele- 
gance. But now their long, sad task was ended, and all 
that was left were the long lines of lowly graves, each 
with its bit of board bearing the name, company, and 
regiment of the patriot soldier sleeping so quietly beneath 
the bloodstained earth, the rush and tumult of life all 
forgotten. 

The Confederates in their hurried retreat had left their 
dead unburied, and on the western side of the creek 
human corpses lay scattered over hundreds of acres. 
Here was a single one, as if he had crawled away by 
himself that no one might witness his last struggle ; 
there, three or four had fallen together; and in other 
places, the thickly strewn ground attested the fierceness 
of the contest. 

There was indeed much to remind the men of the 
terrible scenes through which they passed, and it was 
with thankful hearts that they lay down to rest that 
night. Though needful of many comforts, their lives had 
been spared, and there was yet more work for them to 
do. 

Many of the men, though still keeping in the ranks, 
were nevertheless suffering extremely from the unaccus- 
tomed exposure. Fever and ilgue were getting in their 
work, and the record in Sergeant Robinson's diary, 
under date of September 19, — " Made some herb tea for 
Halliday and myself," bears witness to their common 
suffering and helpfulness one to the other. Next day 
Halliday was no better, and Robinson took him 
down to Sharpsburg and got him a place in a private 
house, where he could stay a few days and rest. 

The little village of Sharpsburg had suffered severely 
from the flying shot and shells. Many of the houses 



i862.] FROM ANTIETAM TO FREDERICKSBURG. 143 

were badly shattered, and there were but few without 
the tell-tale marks. One woman said that the inhabitants 
were dreadfully frightened during the fight, and that the 
women and children were down in the cellars of the 
houses praying that God would deliver them from the 
threatening destruction. 

It seems that Halliday's experience taught the ser- 
geant that something a little stronger than herb tea was 
needed for such attacks, for in his next letter home he 
wrote, — " I wish you would send me some cayenne pep- 
per or composition." Let us hope that a liberal supply 
was forthcoming by return mail, and that the boys' 
stomachs got well warmed up. 

Probably Sergeant Burnham smiles now when he 
recalls his first attack of ague, and how — ignorant of the 
nature of the disease, — he resignedly remarked, " Boys, 
I 'm afraid my soldiering days are over ! " But he 
didn't smile then; there wasn't time between the 
shakes. The sergeant was destined to do many a good 
day's service yet, and having been assisted to a neigh- 
boring haystack by some sympathetic comrades, — who 
were sick themselves — they all managed to get a com- 
fortable night's sleep, and the next morning Burnham 
was on the mending hand. 

For two or three days the regiment remained quietly 
in camp, though the very air was thick with rumors, — of 
victories at one point, and reverses at another ; difficul- 
ties were to be speedily adjusted, and again, they were 
to be contested to the bitter end. In the mean time the 
opportunity for rest and recuperation was fully improved. 
The scanty supply of clothing was washed and mended, 
letters were written to the anxious friends at home, and 
each one made himself as comfortable as circumstances 



1^4 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [September, 

would allow. Qiiite a number of blankets were picked 
up on the Confederate side of the field, and these served 
to make their hard couches a little more endurable. 
These temporary privations were real hardships to men 
accustomed to abundant food and clean clothing, yet as 
thev came to know more intimately the pitiable condition 
of the Confederate forces, they learned that they still 
had much to be thankful for. 

When Sunday came again, Chaplain Gushee held a 
short service in the forenoon, and there was a well 
attended prayer-meeting in the evening. Two days 
later came an order moving the camp about a mile to the 
left of Sharpsburg. Quite a good many of the soldiers 
were really unfit even for this short march, but with the 
ready help of their more fortunate comrades the change 
was made without much discomfort. 

Just at night there was great rejoicing in the camp — 
a mail had arrived, the first letters the men had received 
since leaving Leesborough. The effect was like that of 
an unexpected re-enforcement in a doubtful battle. What 
magic there was in those white-winged missives, so full 
of love and pity for those who w^ere risking their very 
lives for the sake of the dear ones at home ! Aches 
and pains vanished instanter, hunger and cold were for- 
gotten as the men crowded around the camp-fires, eager 
for the home news. 

The present camp was quite a pleasant one, being- 
pitched on a beautiful green sward, with plenty of 
clean, fresh water close by. A liberal supply of straw 
for the tents seemed quite a luxury after the bare 
ground, and the men were well content with their quar- 
ters. Writing home from here, Wilcox says, — "You 
might see me at this time sitting on my blanket, with 



1862.] FROM ANTIETAM TO FREDERICKSBURG. I45 

my back leaning against a rail fence, on a thinly 
wooded knoll, and in full view of the Potomac, which 
is not more than twentv-five rods distant. I have an 
elegant desk to write upon, composed of the bottom of 
my tin plate. In regard to my wants, I don't want any- 
thing more than what I have got, and if I did I could 
not get it, as there is a law against sending anything to 
soldiers. Still, if you could send me a colored silk hand- 
kerchief by folding in a paper, it would be very accept- 
able." Surely, life in camp at this time, if not strictly a 
bed of roses, nevertheless had a sunny side, when a silk 
handkerchief, like the mantle of charity, could cover a 
multitude of needs. 

That there was a sunny side, and that the men made 
the most of it, Robinson's diary witnesses. " In the eve- 
ning, as many of us as could get in crawled into our 
tent, which was a double one, and some of us lying on 
our bellies, some of us squatting, and some sitting, we 
discussed the following resolution : '•Resolved, That two 
years' experience in camp, with two years' experience in 
college, is more beneficial to one preparing for a profes- 
sional life than four years in college.'" 

Barber, Davis, Taft, and Burnham were on the affirm- 
ative, and George, Shedd, Robinson, and Tracy on the 
negative ; while Corporal Bragg, seated on a knapsack, 
presided over the deliberations with as much dignity as 
the limited space would allow. 

To men New Hampshire born and bred, army life 
brought the curtailment of no luxury dearer to the heart 
than the " three-times-a-day " piece of pie on which they 
had been " raised." The Massachusetts man may boast 
of his beans and his culture, it was a pie that enthused 
our own New Hampshire poet when he sang. 



146 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [September, 

"What moistens the lip, and what brightens the eye? 
What calls back the past like the rich pumpkin pie? " 

a sentiment echoed by every true child of the Granite 
state. So we cannot but sympathize with the poor fel- 
low who wrote home to his mother, in answer to her 
anxious queries as to his food, that he had tasted only 
one piece of pie since leaving Concord, and even that 
" was a mean thing." 

The plain living was conducive to high thinking, 
though, for our friend philosophically concluded his 
letter with the sentiment that the soldiers needed to live 
plain, but that it came pretty hard on those who were 
sick. 

On the morning of the 26th the camp was again 
moved, this time about two miles, which brought them 
to South Antietam, where General Nagle had estab- 
lished brigade head-quarters. This camp was in a 
grove of locust trees, and being along a high bluff, com- 
manded a fine view down the valley. Their stay here, 
of some days, aftbrded an opportunity for the camp drill 
they so much needed. This consisted of guard mount 
in the morning and dress parade in the afternoon, mak- 
ing a pleasant break in the monotony of camp life, 
and under the cheering influence of better food and 
quarters, many of the sick ones were able to return to 
the ranks. 

About the first of October the regimental band was 
promoted to the dignity of a brigade band, and received 
their orders from the brigade commander. The formal 
organization was as follows : Bandmaster, H. P. 
Hamblett ; members of the first class, W. H. Graves, 
J. B. Bailey, J. A. Hamblett, S. H. Howe; second 
class, N. W. Marshall, A. B. Chase, Ben Moreland, 



1862.] FROM ANTIETAM TO FREDERICKSBURG. 1 47 

Lewis Simonds ; third class, E. St. Francis, G. H. 
Lovejoy, A. R. Gleason, William Manning, J. R. 
Wyman, W. A. Peabody, F. V. Marshall, E. M. 
Marble. The other five members remained detailed, 
as all had formerly been. 

After the severe engagement at Antietam there was, 
throughout the army, necessarily some relaxation of the 
stern discipline usually observed, and in the mean time, 
while the officers were trying to bring order out of the 
chaos that reigned everywhere, there was a good deal of 
straggling among the men. This, of course, added to 
the confusion, for the men camped where they liked, 
without regard to company, regiment, or brigade, so 
long as they were comfortable. 

Then, too, their somewhat scanty rations made the 
surrounding country a tempting field for foraging. 
These breaches of discipline could not long go un- 
checked, and General McClellan soon issued an order 
which brought the men back into line and restored the 
old-time regime. 

Head-Quarters, Army of the Potomac, 

Camp Near Sharpsburg, Md., 

October ist, 1862. 
General Orders, 

No. 158. 

Notwithstanding the frequent orders that have been issued from these 
Head-Quarters in regard to stragglers and pillagers, the Commandin"- 
General regrets to be obliged again to call the attention of Corps and 
other subordinate Commanders to this subject, and to impress upon 
them the absolute necessity of holding the different commanders 
responsible for this direct and frequent violation of orders. We are 
now occupying a country inhabited by a loyal population, who look to 
us for the preservation of order and discipline, instead of suffering our 
men to go about in small parties depredating upon their property. 

Armed patrols will be sent out daily from all the different Corps in 



148 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [September, 

this Army, to arrest all officers and soldiers who are absent from the 
limits of their Camps, without written permission from Corps, Division, 
or Brigade Commanders. 

All persons so arrested will be sent the same day to the Provost 
Marshal General at these Head-Quarters, who will, until further orders, 
send them under guard to Harper's Ferry, there to be kept at work on 
the defences at that place. 

In order that the requirements of this order may be perfectly under- 
stood by all concerned. Corps Commanders will, within twenty hours 
after the receipt of this order, furnish evidence to the Commanding 
General, through the Assistant Adjutant General, at these Head-Quar- 
ters, that it has been published to every company under their Com- 
mand. 

The Commanding General is resolved to put a stop to this pernicious 
and criminal practice, and he will hold Corps Commanders responsible 
for the faithful execution of this order. 

By Command of Major Genl. McClellan, 

[Signed] S. Williams, 

Official. Asst. AdJ't Genl. 

William C. Rawolle, 
Capt. &^ A. A. A. G. 

October 3 was a red-letter day in camp, for the army 
was reviewed by President Lincoln and General Mc- 
Clellan. Though the Ninth New Hampshire was only 
a small factor in the grand review, still it is interesting to 
note the inspiring effect the president's visit had upon the 
men. The review was announced at roll-call, and 
immediately all set to work to make themselves look as 
well as possible. About eight o'clock the regiment was 
marched to the field designated for the review of the 
division, and formed in line. The division consisted of 
sixteen regiments of infantry, one of cavalry, and two 
six-gun batteries, and made a fine appearance. 

The regiments were drawn out in one continuous line, 
with intervals of a few rods between the battalions, and 



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with their polished muskets gleaming in the bright sun- 
light, and their colors — some of them bullet-riddled and 
blood-stained — floating softly in the gentle breeze, await- 
ed the approach of the reviewing party. 

As the president drew near, the artillery thundered 
forth a salute, the bands played their loudest and sweet- 
est strains, and from thousands of throats rose cheer 
on cheer for the great and true-hearted man. "Pre- 
sent arms!" came the command from the officers, and 
up shot the bright bayonets with a simultaneous flash. 
Again the command, "Shoulder arms!" and like an 
electric shock down came the burnished weapons. Then 
came the passing in review. 

President Lincoln, mounted on a dark chestnut horse 
with plain trappings, came first, and just behind him was 
General Burnside. Then came a cavalcade of about 
fifty civil and military officers, and these were followed 
by the general's body-guard. The president carried his 
hat in his hand, and as the party dashed along, first in 
front and then in rear of the several brigades, they pre- 
sented a brilliant spectacle, while the bands played " Hail 
to the Chief!" with all their might. 

At the afternoon dress parade the following congratu- 
latory order was read to the assembled troops : 

Head-Quarters Army of the Potomac, 

Camp near Sharpsburg, Md., 

October 3, 1862. 
General Orders, 

No. 160. 

The Commanding General extends his congratulations to the Army 
under his command for the victories achieved by their bravery at the 
passes of the South Mountain and upon the Antietam creek. 

The brilliant conduct of Reno's and Hooker's corps, under Burnside, 
at Turner's Gap, and of Franklin's corps at Crampton's Pass, in which, 



150 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [September, 

in the face of an enemy strong in position and resisting with obstinacy, 
they carried the mountain and prepared the way for the advance of the 
Army, won for them the admiration of tlieir brethren in arms. 

In the memorable battle of the Antietam, we defeated a numerous 
and powerful army of the enemy, in an action desperately fought and 
remarkable for its duration and for the destruction of life which at- 
tended it. The obstinate bravery of the troops of Hooker, Sumner, 
and Mansfield, the dashing gallantry of those of Franklin, on the 
right ; the sturdy valor of those of Burnside on the left, and the vig- 
orous support of Porter and Pleasonton, present a brilliant spectacle to 
our countrymen which will swell their hearts with pride and exultation. 
Fourteen guns, thirty-nine colors, fifteen thousand five hundred stand 
of arms, and nearly six thousand prisoners taken from the enemy, are 
evidences of the completeness of our triumph. A grateful country will 
thank this noble Army for achievements which have rescued the loyal 
States of the East from the ravages of the invader and have driven him 
from their borders. 

While rejoicing at the victories which, under God's blessing, have 
crowned our exertions, let us cherish the memory of our brave com- 
panions who have laid down their lives upon the battle-field. Martyrs 
in their country's cause, their names will ever be enshrined in the 
hearts of the people. 

By Command of Major General McClellan. 

S. Williams, 
Assistant Adjutant-General. 

The president's visit had animated the whole army. 
You saw nothing, heard nothing but war. From the 
high bluff where the regimental camp was pitched, as 
far as the eye could reach the fields w^ere dotted over 
with white tents, and fairly alive with men, either busy 
about their daily tasks or marching and countermarch- 
ing in regular columns. Near the several camps were 
the baggage and supply trains, the wagons arranged in 
line with military precision, and surrounded by a circle 
of noisy, hungry mules. At intervals could be seen the 
parks of artillery, and in the neighboring wood were the 



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numerous camps of the cavalry. Under the soft, white 
light of the moon the scene took on a touch of romance, 
which was not wholly lost when the camp-fires burned 
brightly and each tent displayed its bit of candle. 

Sunday, October 5, the brigade to which the Ninth 
was attached attended divine service near General 
McClellan's head-quarters in the afternoon, finding but 
little satisfaction, however, in sitting for an hour in the 
hot sun, which poured down on their heads as if it were 
midsummer. That evening the " professings," as the 
Christian members of the regiment were termed, met, 
and made arrangements for forming themselves into a 
religious society to keep up the prayer-meetings and 
general interest. A constitution was adopted, and the 
society began its work with O. D. Robinson as president. 
Chamberlain of Company D as secretary, G. O. Bruce, 
N. W. Pulsifer, Abbott, and E. Ayer as corresponding 
secretaries, and one director from each company. 

Thus did the men strive to enliven the tedium which 
the narrow limits of the camp imposed, and from Lieu- 
tenant Chandler's home letters we get a glimpse of life 
as it went on in official circles : 

" You will see that we have been not without a taste of 
soldier life, and in fact we were pretty well used up. 
After marching for ten days and fighting two hard bat- 
tles the number of wounded, footsore, shirks, and drones, 
would amount to a good many. We could not muster 
500 fighting men on the morning after Antietam, though 
we have now more than 700. 

" For my own part I frankly say that I saw as much 
fighting and came as close to danger as I care to again, 
unless I may serve a useful purpose. I shall, if I live 
to return, have to point you on my sword scabbard a 



152 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [September, 

fearful blow from grape shot, and the doleful whiz of 
Minie balls is still fresh in my ears. 

" One's feelings, if I can judge from the brief experi- 
ence of only two actions, are somewhat indescrib- 
able, but the interest excited soon outweighs personal 
considerations, and I might almost say, blots out all 
feelings of humanity. One marches over a wounded 
friend with no notice whatever." 

And again he WTites, — 

" For two weeks I slept with no shelter whatever, and 
no clothing save overcoat and blanket. If I can exer- 
cise enough while in camp to digest the food which my 
appetite craves, I shall gain flesh immensely. The out- 
door life improves me marvellously. Our food is good 
and abundant when not on the march, and fresh meat is 
daily to be had from the herds which follow in our rear. 
Fine clothes are at a discount. My best coat is with my 
trunk stored in Washington, and I wish many of my 
other knick-knacks were there too. My regimental 
business is laborious and somewhat perplexing, but I 
endeavor to do it properly and seasonably, and I have 
seen no time when I would go back to my business at 
home under similar circumstances as when I left. 

" Since our last battle we have been leading a rather 
quiet life as far as outward demonstrations go, and have 
done more to perfect ourselves in discipline and drill than 
in six weeks previous. We can now do some things on 
the line ' right smart,' as the natives say here. Presi- 
dent Lincoln has been here for two days. Night before 
last he was at Burnside's quarters, distant about twenty 
rods, and last night at McClellan's. At nine o'clock 
this morning we had a review of our corj)S d'armes, 
before the president, or rather by the president. Gen- 



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i862.] FROM ANTIETAM TO FREDERICKSBURG. 153 

erals McClellan and Burnside, and about twenty briga- 
diers and their staffs. About ten thousand troops were 
on line, besides artillery and cavalry. Father Abraham 
passed close by us, and looks careworn and thin as it 
appears to me. General McC. looks fat and hearty." 

The arrival of Major George W. Everett, who had 
been detained at his home by sickness since receiving 
his commission, was the occasion of a gala day: 

"We had a pleasant time yesterday. See if we didn't: 
Major Everett and I went out in the morning for a ride 
on the battle-field of Antietam and a view of the bridge, 
of which, by the way, there is a faint picture in Frank 
Leslie's last pictorial, and on our return, about noon, 
found in our tent Colonel Harriman, Assistant Surgeon 
Hutchins, and Lieutenant Joseph R. Clark, all of whom 
had come up from Sandy Hook to report to Burnside. 

" We sent for Colonel Griffin of the Sixth (which is in 
our brigade), and for our dinner party had the follow- 
ing : Colonels Fellows, Griffin, Harriman ; Major Ever- 
ett ; Lieutenants C. B. Hutchins, Moses, Hutchins, and 
Chandler, and had a happy time in talking over New 
Hampshire matters. Colonel Harriman looked finely, 
and was just as gay and loquacious as ever. 

"To-day Everett and I rode down within about three 
miles of Harper's Ferry, on this side of the Potomac, and 
turned in by a narrow, untravelled road and visited the 
house which was John Brown's head-quarters for about 
four months preceding his raid. Here he lived, with 
several of his men, and was receiving arms and sup- 
plies from Hagerstown and other points north. 

" The very old carriage in which he rode still stands in 
the barn. The place is very retired, nestled among the 



1 5 4 NINTH NE W HAMPSHIRE. [September, 

hills, with dense woods in front, through which some of 
his men escaped into Pennsylvania. The place is now 
quite noted, and I ma}' send you a cut of it sometime, as 
there are some I have seen. I want to go to the ferry if 
I can get time, if we do not move forward from here too 
soon. Please have mother lay in a stock of cider this 
fall, and I hope I may get home to drink some of it 
before it gets too hard." 

Alas for the gallant lieutenant's hopes ! That stock of 
cider had turned to first-class vinegar long before the 
remnant of the Ninth New Hampshire yielded up its 
tattered colors to the governor of the Granite state. 

Just before the breaking up of the camp at South An- 
tietam, General McClellan ordered the publishing of two 
circulars, — one designed to check the indiscriminate 
granting of furloughs, that the army might be kept in con- 
dition to march on short notice, the other conveying the 
cheering intelligence of the victory of the troops in the 
West. 

On the 22d of September, President Lincoln had issued 
one of the most important documents ever published by 
a president of the United States. It consisted of a notice 
to the Confederates to return to their allegiance, emanci- 
pation of all slaves being proclaimed as a result which 
would follow their failure to so return. This act was 
simply a war measure, based upon the president's 
authority as commander-in-chief. The real "Emanci- 
pation Proclamation " was the supplementary document 
issued on the ist of January, 1863. 

This preparatory document, however, was enough to 
rouse the excitement in the South to a fever heat, and 
among the Union troops was the cause of much discus- 



1 862.] FROM ANTIETAM TO FREDERICKSBURG. 1 55 

sion as to the wisdom of the president's course. To 
such an extent was this carried that the following gen- 
eral order was issued to the Army of the Potomac, by 
order of General McClellan : 

Head-Quarters Army of the Potomac, 

Camp near Sharpsburg, Md., 

October 7, 1862. 
General Orders 

No. 163. 

The attention of officers and soldiers of the Army of the Potomac is 
called to General Orders, No. 139, War Department, Sept. 24, 1862, 
publishing to the Army the President's proclamation of Sept. 22d. 

A proclamation of such grave moment to the nation, officially com- 
municated to the Army, affords to the general commanding an oppor- 
tunity of defining specifically to the officers and soldiers under his com- 
mand the relation borne by all persons in the military service of the 
United States towards the civil authorities of the Government. The 
Constitution confides to the civil authorities, legislative, judicial, and 
executive, the power and duty of making, expounding, and executing 
the Federal laws. Armed forces are raised and supported simply to 
sustain the civil authorities, and are to be held in strict subordination 
thereto in all respects. This fundamental rule of our political system 
is essential to the security of our republican institutions, and should be 
thoroughly understood and observed by every soldier. The principles 
upon which, and the object for which, armies shall be employed in 
suppressing rebellion, must be determined and declared by the civil 
authorities, and the chief executive, who is charged with the adminis- 
tration of national affairs, is the proper and only source through which 
the views and orders of the government can be made known to the 
armies of the nation. 

Discussions by officers and soldiers concerning public measures 
determined upon and declared by the Government, when carried at all 
beyond the ordinary temperate and respectful expression of opinion, 
tend greatly to impair and destroy the discipline and efficiency of 
troops, by substituting the spirit of political faction for that firm, 
steady, and earnest support of the Government which is the highest 
duty of the American soldier. The remedy for political errors, if any 



156 NINTH NE IV HAMPSHIRE. [September, 

are committed, is to be found only in the action of the people at the 
polls. In thus calling the attention of this Army to the true relations 
between the soldier and the Government, the General Commanding 
merely adverts to an evil against which it has been thought advisable 
during our whole history to guard the armies of the Republic. And 
in so doing he will not be considered by any right-minded person as 
casting any reflection upon that loyalty and good conduct which has 
been so fully illustrated upon so many battle-fields. 

In carrying out all measures of public policy this Army will of course 
be guided by the rules of mercy and Christianity that have ever con- 
trolled its conduct towards the defenceless. 

By Command of Maj. Genl. McClellan, 

[Signed] Jas. A. Hardie, 

Lt. Col. &- A. D. C. 

A. A. A. Geiil. 
Official. 

[Signed] Wm. C. Rawolle, 

Capt. &- A. A. A. G. 
Official. 

Jno. Edw. Mason, 

A. A. A. Genl. 

It is now time to review the general movement of both 
armies up to the morning of October 7, when the camp 
was once more in motion. The Battle of Antietam was 
a disappointment to each contestant. On the Confederate 
side there had been desperate lighting and heavy losses. 
In point of fact, they were in no condition to repel a 
second assault, much less to make an attack. Long- 
street considered the situation so critical, that from his 
head-quarters at Sharpsburg he sent a note to Lee, urg- 
ing him to retreat across the river at early candle-light, 
and be sure and not light the candle either, for he felt 
convinced that a crushing defeat could be the only out- 
come of a renewal of the engagement. 

Thus, General Lee, by his hurried retreat across the 
river, practically acknowledged his own defeat and his 



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inability to withstand another attack. Even the South- 
ern historians do not attempt to conceal the construction 
the people of the South put upon Lee's failure to dis- 
lodge McClellan. On his return to Virginian soil one 
comments in this wise : 

" Let it be freely confessed that the object of General 
Lee, in crossing the Potomac, was to hold and occupy 
Maryland ; that his proclamation issued at Frederick, 
offering protection to the Marylanders, is incontroverti- 
ble evidence of the fact ; that he was forced to return to 
Virginia, not by stress of any single battle, but by the 
force of many circumstances, some of which history 
should blush to record ; — that, in these results, the 
Maryland campaign was a failure." 

Then, too, the people of Maryland had not appeared 
particularly anxious to place themselves under General 
Lee's protecting banner, for only a hundred recruits 
were gathered in where thousands were needed. The 
same historian, regarding this fact, says, — 

"It was not expected that the few recruits who timidly 
advanced to our lines would have been so easily dis- 
mayed by the rags of our soldiers and by the prospects 
of a service that promised equal measures of hardship 
and glory. " 

The campaign which had been the occasion for much 
vain-glorious boasting had flatted out into an ignominious 
retreat, and the Southern Confederacy had not strength- 
ened its cause, to say the least, by its campaign in loyal 
Maryland. 

Still, it must be acknowledged that General Lee was 
a brilliant strategist, and if he could not construe defeat 



158 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [September, 

into victory, why then he purposed to make the best pos- 
sible use of that defeat. That was why he hastened to 
place himself beyond the immediate reach of General 
McClellan. Of what use to him were the dead and 
wounded, and the few stray stores at Sharpsburg? 
What he needed was men that could fight, and could 
he but keep McClellan at bay for a few days, he could 
concentrate his scattered forces, and replenish his wasted 
stores from the rich bounty of the dwellers in the Shen- 
andoah valley, who lavished their attentions as freely 
upon the Confederates as they did their hatred upon 
the Union troops. 

There was still another advantage to be gained by 
delav. Even with his re-enforcements General Lee 
was by no means sanguine of obtaining a decisive vic- 
tory, should he attack the Union forces ; on the other 
hand, winter was coming on, when active hostilities 
must cease, and with the advent of spring might come 
the coveted recognition of the Southern Confederacy 
by foreign powers, which would practically decide the 
disputed question of supremacy. So with nothing to 
lose, and everything to gain, by a delay in hostilities. 
General Lee, with Winchester as a centre of opera- 
tions, ranged his forces from Martinsburg to the Shen- 
andoah river, thus retaining the possession of the 
beautiful and fertile valley as a base of supplies, and 
then calmly awaited the movements of the Union 
commander. 

And General McClellan, following the blind leadings 
of fate, did just what his wily opponent wished him to 
cJo — he waited. His failure to push the advantage he 
unquestionably possessed on the morning of the i8th of 
September, could not be excused on any such grounds 



1862.] FROM ANTIETAM TO FREDERICKSBURG. 1 59 

as had been urged at Richmond, and the North began 
to experience a sense of uneasiness and disappointment 
at the lack of "push" displayed by the leader of the 
Army of the Potomac. The expected re-enforcements 
arrived, and General Burnside visited the commanding 
general's head-quarters and urged an immediate attack ; 
but General McClellan, backed up by General Sumner, 
who stubbornly opposed a renewal, hesitated to take so 
grave a responsibility. "The man who hesitates is 
lost," and the golden opportunity, once within his 
grasp, was, through the skilful maneuvering of the 
Confederate leader, placed forever beyond his reach. 

So the days slipped by. The feeling of impatience 
grew apace in the North, and the authorities at Wash- 
ington continually urged upon McClellan the necessity 
for a forward movement. Then came the president's 
visit to the camp and the review of the troops on the 3d 
of October. Cheered and encouraged by his enthu- 
siastic reception, and a sight of the battle-field where so 
desperate and bloody a conflict had been waged confirm- 
ing him in his belief that men who had worsted the 
enemy in the face of such odds had no reason to fear to 
follow up the pursuit. President Lincoln determined to 
advise an advance into Virginia. 

This view of the situation is in direct opposition to that 
of the Comte de Paris, who attempts to apologize for the 
failure of McClellan to attack on the i8th by assuming 
that the fault was in the demoralization of the army, 
taking the ground that two weeks only having elapsed 
since he had taken command of this army, or rather "this 
disorganized mob," he had not been able to transform it 
sufficiently "to secure that regularity and perseverance in 
the march which, even more than steadiness under fire, 



l6o NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [September, 

constitutes the superiority of old troops." The Comte de 
Paris could have had no reference to the conduct of the 
Ninth New Hampshire, for, raw and undisciplined troops 
though they were, we have General Nagle's assurance 
that they " behaved like veterans." 

That General McClellan surmised the president's de- 
termination is evinced by the statement which he makes in 
his " Own Story," for, referring to the visit to the camp, 
he says, — " His ostensible purpose is to see the troops 
and the battle-field. I incline to think that the real pur- 
pose of his visit is to push on into a premature advance 
into Virginia. The real truth is that my army is not fit 
to advance." 

And it came about, that on the 6th of October, two 
days after Mr. Lincoln's departure. General Halleck tel- 
egraphed General McClellan, — 

"The president directs that you cross the Potomac and 
give battle to the enemy or drive him south. Your army 
must move now while the roads are good. If you cross 
the river between the enemy and Washington, and cover 
the latter by your operation, you can be re-enforced with 
30,000 men. If you move up the valley of the Shenan- 
doah, not more than 12,000 or 15,000 can be sent to you. 
The president adv^ises the interior line between Washing- 
ton and the enemy, but does not order it. He is very 
desirous that your army move as soon as possible." 

That night orders were issued to the men to be ready 
to move the next morning. Reveille was sounded at half- 
past three o'clock, and soon after sunrise an eight-mile 
march over the rugged and precipitous Maryland Heights 
was begun. The way was exceedingly toilsome, the 




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i862.] FROM ANTIETAAI TO FREDERICKSBURG. l6l 

weather warm, and the men were glad enough when 
Pleasant Valley was reached and a halt ordered. 

Here the army rested for a time, for the purpose of 
receiving recruits and supplies, General McClellan hold- 
ing persistently to his opinion that his army was not in 
condition for an advance upon the enemy, and meeting 
with various objections the orders sent him from Wash- 
ington. Qiiantities of supplies were forwarded, but for 
some reason failed to reach him. So, on one pretext and 
another, the advance was delayed until the North began 
to feel that McClellan was determined to wait until spring 
before attempting any move. 

Then, on the 9th of October, came the raid of Stuart's 
cavalry, and the North was thoroughly aroused. To be 
sure little real damage was done beyond plundering the 
country and destroying the railroad plant at Chambers- 
burg, but it demonstrated how easy it was for an adven- 
turous band to make a sudden attack on an unprotected 
town, and escape unmolested. General McClellan was 
greatly chagrined at this escapade on the part of the 
Confederates, and requested that he be at once furnished 
with more cavalry, in order to guard against future inva- 
sions. Whereupon President Lincoln shrewdly suggest- 
ed that the enemy be given more occupation south of the 
Potomac, so that his cavalry would have no need to seek 
diversion north of the river. 

It was quite evident that General McClellan regarded 
General Lee's position at Winchester as a Gibraltar, and 
that he hesitated to hurl himself against a stone wall. 
But the authorities at Washington were getting tired of 
this irresoluteness, and on the 13th of October President 
Lincoln wrote General McClellan a letter in which he 

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1 62 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [October, 

clearly defined his ideas as to the course that should be 
pursued with regard to the enemy, and skilfully fore- 
stalled any and all objections that could possibly be 
brought to bear against his plans. Among other 
characteristic expressions were these : 

" You remember my speaking to you of what I called 
your over-cautiousness. Are you not over-cautious 
when you assume that you cannot do what the enemy is 
constantly doing ? Should you not claim to be at least 
his equal in prowess, and act upon the claim? " Further 
on, the president says, — "Change positions with your 
enemy, and think you not he would break your commu- 
nication with Richmond within the next twenty-four 
hours? You dread his going into Pennsylvania ; but if 
he does so in full force, he gives up his communication to 
you absolutely, and you have nothing to do but to follow 
and ruin him. Exclusive of the water-line, you are now 
nearer Richmond than the enemy is, by the route that 
you CAN and he must take." And in conclusion : "It 
is all easy if our troops march as well as the enemy, and 
it is unmanly to say that they cannot do it. This letter is 
in no sense an order." 

It is touching to see with what consideration the presi- 
dent treats that which he could not have helped feeling 
was either sluggishnesss or direct disregard of his ex- 
pressed wishes. He hesitates to command, he would 
rather suggest; for disobedience to a command would 
look like insubordination, and was to be avoided. Still 
McClellan hung back, and October had nearly gone 
by. The feeling at Washington and throughout the 
North, that some decisive move should be made, and that 
at once, was growing stronger every day. Pretexts were 



i862.] FROM ANTIETAM TO FREDERICKSBURG. 163 

no longer of avail. Halleck's orders grew shorter and 
sharper, and, finally, on the 26th of October, an advance 
was decided on. 

The pleasant weather had been spent in camp, and 
now through cold and storm the march must be made. 
Heavy rains had spoiled the roads, and already the 
mountain-tops were white with the early snows. The 
route lay along the vallev to the east of the Blue Ridge 
range ; on the opposite side of which Lee was now push- 
ing his forces in a backward move up the valley, for the 
Confederate commander was not slow to see that the 
movement of the Union forces down the valley would 
quickly throw them into his rear, and thus cut off his 
base of supplies at Richmond. This he could forestall 
by throwing his own forces to the rear, with Culpeper 
Court-house as the objective point. 

Having once settled upon a plan of operations. Gen- 
eral McClellan advanced his great army rapidly and at 
the same time carefully. The Potomac was crossed at 
Berlin and Harper's Ferry, the Ninth corps, under Will- 
cox, being the first to pass into Virginia at Berlin. All 
the troops had crossed the river by the ist of November, 
and were winding their toilsome way along the eastern 
valley of the Blue Ridge. 

The opposing forces were now in a position that would 
have delighted Napoleon had he been a commander on 
either side. Here were two great armies, separated only 
by a ridge of mountains, with no less than six gaps at 
different points, through any one of which either army 
could make a sudden dash and deal the other a heavy 
blow ere it could rally from the surprise. Napoleon 
could never have resisted such an opportunity for a stra- 
tegic movement, but except an occasional skirmish with 



164 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [November, 

the Ninth corps, which was still in advance, the march 
was made with but little interruption. 

Bloomlield was reached November 2, the next two 
days were occupied in reaching Upperville, and by the 
5th of November the Ninth corps had crossed Manassas 
railroad between Piedmont and Salem. The next day 
Waterloo on the Rappahannock was reached, and by the 
9th of November the entire force had closed up, and 
General McClellan had assigned the positions as follows : 

General head-quarters were established at Warrenton, 
and here were stationed the reserve artillery and the 
First, Second, and Fifth corps ; the Ninth corps was on 
the line of the Rappahannock, in the vicinity of Water- 
loo ; the Sixth corps at New Baltimore ; the Eleventh 
corps at New Baltimore, Gainesville, and Thoroughfare 
Gap ; Sickles's division of the Third corps on the Orange 
& Alexandria railroad, from Manassas Junction to War- 
renton Junction ; Pleasonton across the Rappahannock at 
Amissville and Jefferson, with his pickets at Hazel river 
facing Longstreet, six miles from Culpeper Court-house, 
with Bayard near Rappahannock Station. 

A heavy storm had raged for two days, the roads were 
in terrible condition, and the situation of the army was 
anything but comfortable ; but the men were in surpris- 
ingly good spirits, and awaited the outcome of events 
with equanimity. 

The awakening was nearer at hand than any one 
dreamed, for on the evening of the 7th of November an 
orderly had arrived in camp from Washington. It was 
nearly midnight, and General McClellan was sitting 
alone in his tent, examining some papers, when the 
orderly, accompanied by General Burnside, entered the 
tent and handed to General McClellan an order trans- 



i862.] FROM ANTIETAM TO FREDERICKSBURG. 1 65 

ferring the command of the army to General Burnside. 
McClellan's acquiescence in the decision of his superi- 
ors was both prompt and cheerful. Turning to Burnside, 
between whom and himself the strongest friendship exis- 
ted, he handed him the order with the simple remark, 
" Well, Burnside, you are to command the army." Nor 
was Burnside lacking in respect and courtesy to his 
friend. When General McClellan was ready to leave 
he ordered the troops out to pass in review before him. 
It was the closing scene in McClellan's military career. 

Here let us leave the Army of the Potomac for a while, 
and do a little reconnoitering as to the movements of the 
enemy in the mean time. 

Having decided to concentrate his forces in the vicini- 
ty of Culpeper Court-house, the Confederate commander 
had lost no time in putting his plan into execution. He 
moved his stores and a considerable portion of his artill- 
ery on November i, by way of Thornton's Gap. Long- 
street led his forces up the Shenandoah as far as Front 
Royal, crossed the river, and passed the Blue Ridge 
through Chester Gap, closely followed by D. H. Hill's 
division ; while Jackson occupied the valley at Millwood. 

Such were the positions of the two great forces at the 
time General Burnside assumed command of the Army 
of the Potomac. 



ON THE MARCH. 

It has been noted that the Ninth corps was in the van 
from the time the army entered Virginia, so that the 
Ninth New Hampshire had a share in all the adventures 
that fall to the lot of the advance corps. We left them 
at the entrance of Pleasant Valley, Md., October 7, 



1 66 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [November, 

and the story of the four weeks that intervened before the 
stand was made at Warrenton, Va., November 7, is 
one of hardship and privation, patiently and even cheer- 
fully endured. 

It was at an early hour that Tuesday morning that 
the regiment left South Antietam and began the as- 
cent of Elk mountain, one of the Blue Ridge rancre. 
The gradual ascent of the mountain-side in the cool 
shade of the small growth of timber was very comforta- 
ble, but the sun climbed faster than the men, and the 
hotter the sun grew the steeper grew the mountain, and 
the last three miles of the ascent was like climbing up 
stairs. There was many a sigh of relief when the top 
was at last reached, but the men speedily discovered that 
going down hill with a heavy load on your back is a 
great deal harder than climbing up. 

And their loads were heavy, for what with tent, blan- 
ket, and overcoat, extra clothing, three days rations in 
a haversack, a canteen of water, cooking utensils, a 
heavy rilie and sabre bayonet, with forty rounds of 
cartridges, to say nothing of the conveniences, it makes 
quite a bundle, pack it close as you may. It was solid 
work the boys found before the eight miles were cov- 
ered and the halt was made at Pleasant Valley. The 
Tenth and Eleventh New Hampshire had arrived there 
the previous day from Sandy Hook, and the boys of the 
Ninth were right glad to find old friends awaiting them, 
and to get the latest news from home. As one of them 
expressed it — "It was like going out on the streets at 
Manchester, I knew so many of them." 

Pleasant Valley was in reality a quaint little hamlet of 
some over a hundred families, most of whom were loyal, 
and the presence of so large an army must have been 



i862.] FROM ANTIETAM TO FREDERICKSBURG. 1 67 

anything but agreeable to them. The officers made 
every effort to protect their property, though it would 
have required a pretty large premium to insure the lives 
of stray pigs or poultry. 

In everything that pertained to civilization the place 
was, as an eminent divine tersely phrased it, " four hun- 
dred years behind the Northern states." The houses 
were almost invariably built of logs rudely locked to- 
gether at the corners, the wide crevices between being 
liberally chinked with clay, and if the family was 
unusually prosperous the logs were treated to a coat of 
whitewash. One peculiar feature of their architecture 
was that the huge, uncouth chimney was invariably at 
one end and outside the one-roomed domicile. 

When passing a cabin of this description one rainy 
day, one of the Ninth boys sung out to a bareheaded, 
barefooted youngster, clad in butternut jeans, "You'd 
better take that chimney inside, or it '11 get wet." 
Whereat another comrade drawled out, " By thunder, 
if they do that they '11 have to move the house out doors, 
for there ain't room for both inside." 

The interior furnishings were in keeping with the style 
of the "mansion," and all of the same primitive charac- 
ter. There was usually a huge cupboard or "press," 
which served as the family locker, its loosely hanging 
door nearly worn through by the successive generations 
of hands that had opened and shut it, a table and chairs, 
equally antique in appearance, with the addition of a few 
three-legged stools if the present occupants were blessed 
with an uncommonly numerous progeny, a four-poster 
bedstead covered with gay patchwork quilts, and the 
indispensable and omnipresent cradle, — the older chil- 
dren being stowed away in the loft on " shakedowns." 



1 68 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [November, 

Their stay in this camp of nearly three weeks was 
made as comfortable as possible by the men, to whom 
experience was teaching many devices and accomplish- 
ments. The rations were monotonous in character, but 
hunger is a good sauce and life in the open air con- 
ducive to a well developed appetite, so the hard-tack 
and coffee, salt horse and slab bacon, with an occasional 
dish of rice or beans, were generally put out of sight 
with marvellous rapidity. 

No beans baked in a pot will ever taste so good to the 
boys as the beans they used to get in the army. They 
formed the great feast of the week, and "baking-day" 
was sure to draw a crowd. No modern range can equal 
the results of a few bushels of live coals lining the 
bottom and sides of a pit in the ground. The beans, 
already parboiled and liberally interlarded with strips ot 
fat pork, were placed in the huge iron mess kettles, cov- 
ered tightly, and embedded in the coals. An all-day or 
night bake would turn out a dish fit for a king. 

Occasionally a mess of flour could be secured, and 
then a dish of fritters was in order, though the " fixings " 
were lacking. Meal could not be bought, but the boys 
levied on the corn-fields, and by dint of much patience 
manufactured enough meal for a pudding now and then, 
by diligently scratching the hardest ears over a grater 
made from a tin plate. 

Persimmons were just becoming toothsome from the 
early frosts. This was a wild fruit hitherto unknown 
even in name to most of the boys. The natives spoke 
of them variously as " simmons," " p'simmons," etc., so 
that it was difficult to get at the exact orthography of 
the word. Barber, of Company E, wanted to get the 
word just right, so he could tell about them in a letter, 



i862.] FROM ANTIETAM TO FREDERICKSBURG. 1 69 

and so he asked a woman, "How do you spell the 
word?" She looked blank for a moment, and then 
remarked, "I reckon we-uns don't spell it no-ways." 

Vegetables were especially scarce, and when a man 
wanted to give himself an extra choice treat, he saved 
up his coffee till there was enough to exchange with a 
" native " for a few potatoes. Then he built a little fire, 
cooked his potatoes in the quart tin cup which every 
soldier carried, and if he had money enough to buy a 
bit of butter, no epicure ever enjoyed the choicest morsel 
more. 

But, after all, it was n't home, and more than one of 
the boys felt a longing for " home and mother" as the 
days wore slowly away. In their letters they begged 
for the most trivial details — the price of apples, how 
much cider had been made, how the sick neighbor was 
getting along, had the trouble in the church been set- 
tled. The tears and smiles start alternately as one 
reads these letters, now timeworn and stained. The 
gray-haired men of to-day were only boys back in 
the '60s. 

Perhaps the life bore the hardest aspect to the sick, — 
and there were many of these, — for the regimental hos- 
pital was in an old barn, with no chance for a fire and 
few comforts. There were two or three nurses, brave 
women whom the men loved and reverenced for their 
kind words and tender touch that made the restless lad 
grow quiet and calmed his troubled sleep. Now and 
then a poor worn body, wearied with the struggle for 
existence, dropped its burden of suffering and was 
borne to its last long home in the bosom of mother earth. 

During the encampment at Pleasant Valley every 
effort was made to place the army in suitable condition, 



170 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [November, 

should another battle ensue, and also to replace the 
necessary clothing and outfits that had been lost at 
South Mountain and Antietam, in view of the cold 
weather that would soon be upon them. Regular camp 
drill and dut}'^ were inaugurated, and orders were promul- 
gated in regard to straggling and absence from command. 
Life was not all drill and duty, however, and some 
good stories have been furnished by the men who par- 
ticipated in the scenes they so graphically depict. Let 
them speak for themselves : 

Lieutenant Moses. — About the time when the troops 
were going into camp at Pleasant Valley, the last camp 
made before going into Virginia, some of the boys 
climbed over the fence to get some apples, which was 
contrary to orders. Just then General Sturgis rode up 
with his staff, and they all dismounted, to make their 
head-quarters. The general saw one of the fellows 
stooping down to pick up the apples, and gave him a 
shove and a kick. Quick as a flash the man turned 
around, his fist doubled up, and shouted "You son of 
a" — and then he saw who it was and made tracks. 
Sturgis called out to him to halt, but the man only ran 
the faster, and no one happened to know him. 

Then the general caught sight of me, and hailed me 
as "Lieutenant!" I halted and saluted, and then he 
asked, "How long have you been hei-e?" "Only a 
few minutes, sir." " Do you know what has been 
going on there?" "Yes, sir; I think those soldiers 
have been taking apples from that orchard, ver}-^ much 
against the protestations of the guard." "And you 
stood here, — you, a commissioned officer — and allowed 
it to go on?" " General, I have been here only a few 



i862.] FROM ANTIETAM TO FREDERICKSBURG. 171 

minutes, awaiting the arrival of my train." " Don't tell 
me — you saw it going on. Go to your camp, and place 
yourself under arrest ! " 

This happened about noon, and the next morning I 
began to think that there might be something more in it 
than I really appreciated. So I sent for Colonel Fel- 
lows, and explained the situation to him the best that I 
could. The colonel had a good laugh at me, and then 
he very kindly sat down and wrote a letter of explana- 
tion to General Sturgis. He said that I was totally 
inexperienced in military matters, and begged that as an 
excuse for my failing to stop the soldiers. General 
Sturgis was pleased to answer, that on the strength of 
Colonel Fellows's explanation he would excuse me, 
through ignorance of duty, but on all future occasions it 
must be seen to that the rules and regulations were 
observed. It was pretty hard lines to be let off on the 
ground of being a greenhorn, but I concluded not to be 
too particular. 

Sergeant O. D. Robinson. — While we were in Pleas- 
ant Valley the orders were very strict about foraging 
around. But the boys got tremendously hungry for 
some apples, and so some of them made arrangements 
with a man to bring in a good big load, and sent a 
guard out to meet him. Well, the man brought in one 
of those big prairie schooners loaded to the brim, and as 
he sold them very reasonably, it took only a few minutes 
to clean them out, and the man hastily departed. The 
boys thought the apples were rather green and hard for 
that time of year, but it was lucky for that man that he 
was out of reach when they found that he had sold them 
green persimmons for apples. 

And speaking of persimmons brings to mind a story 



172 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [November, 

whose point will be appreciated b}' those whose stom- 
achs felt the need of a "gathering-string" more than 
once in those days of hard and scanty fare. With 
Stonewall Jackson, straggling, especially during a for- 
ward march, was an unpardonable offence, but there 
was one instance in which it was promptly condoned. 
During a forced march through the pine and 'simmons 
regions, he stopped to consult with some general officers 
until the whole command had passed some distance 
ahead. Pushing rapidly on to rejoin them, he suddenly 
came to a halt as he discovered a soldier up a 'simmon 
tree. 

" What are you doing so far in the rear?" cried the 
general. " I 'm eating 'simmons," said the soldier. 
" Why, they 're not ripe ! " exclaimed the general, with 
some sarcasm. " I know it," returned the soldier, " I 
want 'em green." " But why do you eat green 'sim- 
mons? " persisted the surprised commander. " To draw 
my stomach up to fit my rations." And the general 
rode along. 

On one occasion, as the boys were going along past a 
farm-house, and the orders were not to touch anything, a 
flock of geese came skurrying along the road, and 
Foster, of Company I, managed to grab one. Just then 
some of the division officers came cantering up, and 
"Jake" Green, who was officer of the guard, called 
out, " Foster, you drops dot goose!" Foster dropped 
it, and the officers rode on, while poor Jake groaned 
out, " Oh, you d d fool, what for you minds me ! " 

One day at Pleasant Valley "Jim" Wentvvorth hap- 
pened to spy an apple-tree that was unguarded, and he 
and two or three others started for it in a hurry. The 
provost guard put after them, and reached the tree first. 



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"That's right," said Jim, generously interlarding his 
retort with "swear words," "guard 'em, guard 'em; 
and when you get where the rebs are, I hope you '11 put 
a guard 'round them." 

Captain Babbitt. — As we were going into camp at 
night at the Iron Works, Colonel Fellows, who had been 
riding ahead, dropped back and said to me, " Captain, 
have n't you got three or tour good smart fellows in your 
company ?" I said, "Yes, sir; I guess some of them 
are pretty fair." "Why I asked. Captain," said he, 
" was because over the brow of the hill there is a flock 
of wild turkeys. I know they are wild, because there 
is n't a house in sight. Some smart fellows might get a 
few of them." Well, we had some of the boys go ahead, 
and sure enough, they got five or six nice fat turkeys. 
We dressed one and sent it down to the colonel, and he 
said it was the best zvild turkey he ever tasted. 

Hefmon A. Clement. — It was while we were resting 
at Pleasant Valley that I first found that my drawers 
were covering considerably more than one pair of legs : 
and oh, how ashamed I was, and afraid that some one 
would see me having a skirmish with the " gray-backs," 
with whom, however, it came to a drawn battle later 
on, — and I had lots of companions, too, as I found out 
before long. And this reminds me of what the colonel 
said to an Irishman, and the ready answer Pat gave him. 
Pat was sitting on the ground, his trousers off', busily 
engaged in evicting some obnoxious tenants. The 
colonel came riding alongside, and noticing Pat's occu- 
pation, halted and said, — " Ah, good morning, Pat ! So 
you're picking them out, are you?" "No, be fabers," 
came the ready retort, "I'm takin' thim as they coom, 
sorr ! ' 



174 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [November, 

One man, who evidently hadn't made all the use he 
might of the common schools in his earlier years, wrote 
home, — "Yesterday I saw a louce as big as a colonel of 
Rise on a man's coat." 

Another says, " Capt ! I have a new way to beat the 
graybacks." "How's that, Jerry?" "Why, you see 
they wants to keep warm, so I turns my shirt wrong 
side out and they travels around to the inside, then I 
turns it again, and so tires them out and kills them by 
long marches." 

Charles S. Stevens. — I know something about "red 
tape " in the army, for I was arrested and put under 
guard for going into an orchard, and it was a week 
before my case was brought to trial. The charge was 
for waste and spoil, but they could prove nothing against 
me. All the same, it was nearly a week longer before I 
was released and the charge dismissed. 



AGAIN IN LINE. 

On the afternoon of the 25th of October orders were 
received to have the command ready to move on the fol- 
lowing morning, with two days rations in haversacks 
and fifty rounds of cartridges. Such an order means a 
lively time in camp. Wood and water must be lugged 
for the cooks, rations drawn, luggage repacked, and 
then comes the "falling in" of all the separate com- 
panies for their sugar and coflfee, meat and hard-tack, 
ammunition, and all the other detail ; each company 
expediting business with systematic dispatch, though to 
an onlooker, unused to the discipline of army life, every- 
thing is in confusion. 



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The morning brought cold and dismal weather, and 
about nine o'clock it began to rain, continuing all that 
day and the following night. All that long, weary day 
the men passed in their little " shelties," through whose 
cotton roof occasional rain-drops made their way in spite 
of the cornstalk thatching. But when the night came 
down, dark and stormy, the men turned in, with thank- 
ful hearts for even these poor substitutes for a roof. 

Tents were struck about noon on the following day, 
and it was not long before the knapsacks were shoul- 
dered and the long, toilsome march through the valley 
east of the Blue Ridge began. The brigade pioneers — 
about two hundred in number — had the advance. These 
^pioneers were selected from all the companies in the 
brigade, and generally comprised the stoutest and best 
men. In addition to their regular equipments, each car- 
ried an ax, spade, or pickax, and it was their business 
to remove temporary obstructions, fell trees or roll logs 
for shaky bridges across the creeks, and the like. Next 
to them marched the Forty-eighth Pennsylvania, then 
the Sixth New Hampshire, the Second Maryland, the 
Ninth New Hampshire, and closing up the rear was the 
Seventh Rhode Island. 

The roads were exceedingly muddy, but the command 
pushed along as fast as possible, moving along the line 
of the river and railroad. Weavertown, once a thriving 
manufacturing village, but now only a picture of desola- 
tion and neglect, was the first station on the way, and 
then came Knoxville. Crossing the canal, the tow-path 
was followed as far as Berlin, where, the river having 
been bridged with pontoons — the Ninth's first experience 
with these structures — their corps was the first of the 
army to enter upon " sacred soil." 



176 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [November, 

When the brigade encamped that night, General 
Sturgis established his head-quarters on a "Secesh" 
plantation, and he was not a little annoyed to find that 
some of the boys were cultivating too intimate an 
acquaintance with his host's poultry — in fact, he so far 
forgot his dignity, that spying a fellow making oft' 
with a loudly squawking hen he at once gave chase. 
Straight through the camp they ran, the soldier still 
clinging to his vainly protesting prize and all the on- 
lookers hugely enjoying the fun. The general finally 
cornered his man ; but the saddest of the joke was, that 
while he was so busily engaged in rescuing his host's 
property, some unprincipled wretch "looted" every drop 
of whiskey from his head-quarters tent. 

The regiment left its first camp in Virginia on the 
29th, at three o'clock in the afternoon, marching five 
miles through Lovettsville to Baldwinsville, where a 
good camping-ground was found. 

Reveille was sounded at three o'clock on October 30, 
breakfast was hastily cooked and eaten, the brigade was 
soon in line, and Wheatland was reached and the Ninth 
New Hampshire comfortably established in a nice grassy 
field by nine o'clock in the forenoon. 

It was on the second day of their stay here that Bar- 
ber and Robinson of Company E made a strike for high 
living. For the best of reasons the\^ were no longer 
able to patronize the sutler, so they put their heads 
together as to how they could make a " raise." It was 
butchering day, and Robinson went out where the bri- 
gade butchers were slaughtering cattle and begged a 
large tripe, and having washed it and cleaned it with 
lye, put it on to boil for supper. In the mean time Bar- 
ber had gone to a mill at some distance from the camp. 





Sergt. Alvin a. Young, Co. K. 



Andrew J. Sawyer, Co. K. 





William H. Perry, Co. K. 



Albert P. Davis, Co. K. 



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where the combined capital of the firm enabled him to 
procure a few pounds of meal. This he "toted" back 
to camp, arriving there just as Robinson pronounced 
the tripe "done to a turn!" Sprinkled with the meal 
and fried, it was a supper that made the other fellows' 
mouths water. But the boys had worked hard for their 
prize, and deserved all the enjoyment the}^ got. 

That evening a large mail arrived, and if their friends 
could have looked in on the camp that night, as the 
soldiers sat around the blazing fires reading their pre- 
cious letters, or lay outstretched eagerly scanning the 
papers spread out before them, they might have realized 
something of what it meant to the boys to hear from 
home. 

The clear notes of the bugle rang through the camp at 
an early hour on the second day of November, and hav- 
ersacks and cartridge boxes having been replenished, 
the line of march was again taken up. The day was 
as warm as in June, the roads were a mass of pow- 
dery dust, and several times during the day brief halts 
were necessary to relieve the blinded eyes and smarting 
throats as the men plodded wearily on. Barber and 
Robinson took turns at transporting a pailful of their 
precious tripe, but in an unguarded moment, just before 
going into camp at nighj:, Barber set the pail down for an 
instant — some one kindly relieved him of any further care. 

The weather was very changeable, and the next day 
the men suffered intensely from the cold, though when 
the halt for the night was made some of the boys man- 
aged to secure a warm nest from a near-by wheatstack 
before a guard could surround it. One day was very 
much like another in the monotonous routine of march, 
halt, and sleep. 

XII 



178 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [November, 

Perhaps the most uncomfortable day's journey was that 
of November 7, the last before the stand was made at 
Waterloo on the Rappahannock. The tents were struck 
about eight o'clock in the morning, in a blinding snow- 
storm, in which the men stood for nearly two hours 
waiting for the order to march. Then the tents were 
pitched again, and the men made themselves as com- 
fortable as they could till the middle of .the afternoon, 
when the order was given to move on. Wet and heavy 
as the tents were, it was no easy task to roll and shoulder 
them, but it was done at last, and despite the blustering 
wind and drifting snow the march was begun. 

On and on, for six long, weary miles, over a wretched 
road — rough, muddy, slippery, full of slough-holes, and 
crossed by numerous bridgeless streams. Dripping with 
perspiration, notwithstanding it is so cold, they are al- 
most breathless as they reach the summit of a high 
hill and come to a halt. In the bitter wind they stand, 
the snow sifting down their necks until the}^ seem 
encased in an icy shroud and the water freezes in the 
canteens. 

"About face ! " comes the order, and at a pace border- 
ing on the double-quick back they go over the whole 
route, almost to the place they started from. Another 
road is taken, the men trudge .painfully on for a few 
miles more, and it is long past midnight when the line 
swings into the woods beside the road and comes to a 
final halt. The snow is scraped away and tents are 
pitched. The neighboring rail fences aflbrd plenty of 
fuel, and it is not long before brightly blazing fires 
lighten the thick darkness of the forest with their ruddy 
glow. Quickly the men dispose themselves, with feet 
to the fire, silence settles down upon the camp, and in 



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a few minutes the soldiers are sleeping as sweetly as if 
in downy beds at home. 

During the march along the valley the men were 
ordered to keep an especially sharp lookout, to prevent 
a surprise by Longstreet's forces, who were reported to 
be waiting at Snicker's Gap to contest the further advance 
of the corps. The expected brush with the Confeder- 
ates failed to materialize, but Captain Babbitt and Ser- 
geant Robinson are responsible for a couple of stories 
of what they did find at Snicker's Gap : 

Caftain Babbitt. — The orders were very strict against 
the soldiers taking anything from the people in the loyal 
part of Virginia, and a close watch was maintained for 
possible offenders. One of the men managed to get hold 
of a nice fat sheep, and was making for his tent with all 
speed. He had almost reached it, and was chuckling 
over his good fortune when an officer caught sight of 
him. " What is this? Don't you understand that you 
are not to forage in this part of the country?" "Yes, 
sir;" was the ready reply, " but I was taking this over 
to Sturgis's quarters." 

Well, the officer gave him a raking-over and then let 
him go. It wasn't long before the same officer caught 
him with another choice piece of mutton strapped to his 
shoulders. " What do you mean by disobeying orders 
within forty-eight hours after they have been given to 
you?" " Well, I was walking along the road minding 

my own business and this d d sheep jumped over the 

fence and began to butt me. I wa' n't a-going to stand 
that — orders or no orders — and so I killed him." But he 
didn't get off so easily this time, in spite of his ingenuity 
in inventing exxuses. 



l8o NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [November, 

Sergeant Robinson. — One morning the Company E 
boys came into camp, after having been out all night on 
picket, greatly elated over having killed a calf, and 
boasting of the nice mess of fresh meat they would have. 
They had got it hidden all right, and after being relieved 
from duty were going out to get it. The boys got out 
their fry-pans, but alas ! the scouts, unlike the men that 
were sent to spy out the Promised Land, returned empty- 
handed. Such a set of crestfallen fellows you never 
saw. Somebody had chanced to stumble on their hiding- 
place, and that time the laugh was on Company E. 

When the Ninth was on guard duty at Pleasant \''alley 
one of the men was sitting astride the trunk of a fallen 
tree when General Sturgis came riding along. Instead 
of getting up, and saluting the general properly, the 
man presented arms by resting his musket on the butt of 
the tree where he was sitting. The general dismounted, 
and you may be sure that fellow never forgot the lesson. 



CHAPTER VI. 

Fredericksburg. 

How General Burnside would execute the important 
trust committed to his care, was a question that was fre- 
quently asked in the anxious days that followed his 
assumption of the command. Truly it was a great 
responsibility. A force of 127,574 officers and men was 
massed in the vicinity of Warrenton, and to this was 
added the direction of the troops engaged in the defence 
of Washington and the upper Potomac, — in all, 225,000 
men. Though the season was far advanced, there was 
yet time to assume the aggressive and deal a decisive 
blow. 

After consultation with General Halleck, General 
Burnside decided to cross his army by the fords of the 
upper Rappahannock, and then move down and seize 
the heights south of Fredericksburg. At the same time 
a small force was to be sent north of the river to re-open 
the railroad and re-build the bridges. To provide the 
means of subsistence for this large force, General Burn- 
side suggested that at least thirty canal-boats and barges 
be loaded with commissary stores and forage, and towed 
to the neighborhood of Aquia Creek, from which place 
they could be brought into Belle Plain, after the arrival 
of the army in that vicinity. These were to be followed 
by enough stores and forage to provide for the army for 
forty days, and a quantity of beef cattle was to be 
started from Washington, by way of Dumfries, together 



l82 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [November, 

with wagon-trains loaded with small stores. This train 
was to be preceded by enough pontoons to allow of a 
double track across the Rappahannock, the responsibility 
of forwarding the supplies and pontoons being assumed 
by General Halleck. 

Such, in brief, was the plan finally settled upon, and 
it having received the president's assent, General Burn- 
side at once put his army in motion. There were three 
grand divisions of two corps each, — General Sumner 
being in command of the right, consisting of the Ninth 
and Second corps ; General Hooker of the centre, or 
Third and Fifth corps ; and General Franklin of the 
left, or First and Sixth corps. 

At daylight on the 15th of November, General Sum- 
ner's command set out towards the Rappahannock, the 
advance reaching Falmouth on the 17th. Here they 
were opened upon by a battery of artillery posted on the 
opposite side of the river, but one of our batteries being 
brought into position soon poured in so hot a fire on the 
enemy as to drive them from their guns. Then they 
awaited the arrival of the rest of the army, which had 
started on the i6th. General Franklin concentrated his 
force in the vicinity of Stafford Court-house, to the east 
of Falmouth, and General Hooker occupied Hartwood 
on the west. 

General Burnside reached Falmouth on the 19th. 
The president had advocated rapidity of movement. 
The army was on the spot, but the pontoons and sup- 
plies were not, and without them furtiier advance was 
impossible. The Rappahannock is only a small stream 
as it winds its way down through the mountains, but 
below Warrenton it receives several tributaries, that 
swell it into a deep and rapid river. This was the 



i862.] FREDERICKSBURG. 183 

obstacle that now intervened between General Burnside 
and the occupation of the coveted heights above Freder- 
icksburg — an obstacle which he had purposed to over- 
come, but which he was prevented from doing by the 
non-arrival of the supplies promised by General Hal- 
leck. Somebody had blundered. It matters not at 
whose door lay the fault, but that blunder cost the coun- 
try dear. 

General Lee had been sorely puzzled by the sudden 
move of General Burnside from Warrenton to Falmouth ; 
but whatever the motive of it might be, he determined to 
forestall its execution, and therefore hurriedly moved his 
army across the country and himself occupied the heights 
of Fredericksburg. When the clouds of mist rolled 
back from the banks of the Rappahannock on the morn- 
ing of the 22d of November, the frowning cannon and 
gleaming bayonets of the Confederate army confronted 
the Union forces. 

General Burnside's plan had failed through no fault 
of his own, yet he was not disposed to accept defeat so 
easily, — the main strength of the Rebellion was vested 
in the army on the opposite side of the river, and he 
determined to make a vigorous effort to break it. If he 
succeeded, it would be a glorious triumph ; if he failed, 
he would still possess the consciousness of having been 
faithful to his trust. Active preparations were at once 
begun, and within three weeks his command was ready 
for battle. 

It was evident that the movement must be one of 
aggression, for General Lee's attitude was simply one of 
defence. The Confederate commander did not care to 
precipitate an action ; his army would be the gainer by a 
winter's recuperation ; at the same time his position at 



184 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [November, 

Fredericksburg gave him command of the railroads 
running to Richmond, which could thus be used as a 
base for supplies ; and this naturally fortified position he 
at once proceeded to render almost impregnable. 

To properly understand the difficulties with which our 
army had to contend at Fredericksburg, a brief descrip- 
tion of the surroundings is necessary. The part which 
the Rappahannock plays has already been mentioned. 
Two bridges which formerly spanned the river had been 
destroyed in the course of the war, which explains the 
importance attached to the delayed pontoon trains. 
Beyond, the river bank rises in a succession of natural 
terraces. On the first of these, in a plain about a mile 
and a half in length by a half mile in width, lies the 
main part of the city of Fredericksburg, the centre of an 
amphitheatre of hills, now covered with earthworks and 
large and small redoubts. Pickets were stationed along 
the river for nearly twenty miles, and rude defences 
established at the points which were fordable below the 
city, the Confederate lines extending from Massaponax 
river on the right to the plank road leading to Salem 
church and Chancellorsville. To cross the river in the 
face of an enemy so strongly intrenched, looked like a 
forlorn hope, yet General Burnside decided to hazard at 
least an attempt. 

The North, through the public press, had kept up a 
continual clamor that something should be done. In the 
face of obstacles whose practical insurmountability they 
could not seem to comprehend, they demanded that 
General Burnside should move — somewhere. The fol- 
lowing extract from Ha7-^crs Weekly of November 29, 
1862, will serve as a sample of the goading to which he 
was constantly subjected : 



i862.] FREDERICKSBURG. 185 

" Time presses. More than half of November is gone. 
In a month we shall again begin to have our ears dinned 
with the sickening old cry of mud, mud, mud. Let us 
hope and pray that our gallant Burnside will realize the 
vital urgency of the case, and will not lose a day or an 
hour in pushing forward at any and all hazards. Delays 
are now as fatal as defeats. If we do not take Richmond 
before Christmas, the Army of the Potomac will lose 
more men from disease in their winter quarters than 
have perished in the bloodiest battle of the war." 

About eighteen miles below Fredericksburg is the 
little town of Port Royal, from which point, could a 
crossing be made, the rear of the Confederate line could 
be reached, and the works on the heights rendered prac- 
tically useless. It seemed a better point for turning the 
enemy's position than any above, and General Bijrnside 
settled on the plan of seizing Port Royal as a means 
towards dislodging the enemy's right. 

General Franklin was ordered to move his command 
from Stafford Court-house down the river to a point 
nearly opposite Port Royal, and a portion of the Potomac 
flotilla was moved up the Rappahannock to near the 
same point, so that on the ist of December the Union 
lines extended from King George Court-house to Stafibrd 
Court-house, and from thence to the road leading to 
Alexandria. 

Through the month of November and the early days 
of December it had been cold and stormy, and with the 
forming of ice in the Potomac there was danger of the 
gunboats in the Rappahannock being caught and frozen 
up; but at length the weather moderated, and fogs from 
the river hid the hostile forces from each other's view 
the major part of the short winter days, and under this 



l86 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [December, 

favorable cover operations were pushed with all pos- 
sible speed. 

In the mean time General Lee, too, had been on the 
alert, and having divined General Burnside's plan of 
crossing at Port Royal, he at once ordered General 
Jackson with a large force to guard the coveted station. 
General Burnside's stratagem had succeeded. Having 
diverted the attention of the enemy for the time being 
by his preliminary move, he proceeded, while still keep- 
ing up the pretence of crossing at Port Royal, to carry 
out his original plan of crossing the river directly in 
front of the city, and, having moved the army through 
the town, charging the enemy's position on the heights 
beyond. Crossing the river seemed a comparatively 
easy task beside climbing the slopes under the range 
of those black-mouthed guns, but the river was destined 
to be deeply dyed with the crimson life-blood of many a 
heroic soul, long ere the slopes were reached. 

Now the time for action had come. The loth of 
December was occupied in concentrating the army along 
the river bank, while the artillery was ranged along 
the plateau extending from Falmouth to a point nearly 
opposite the mouth of Massaponax river. It was settled 
that the river should be spanned at three points, — the 
first near the old county bridge, the second at the lower 
end of the city, and the third about a mile below. Gen- 
erals Sumner and Hooker were to lead their commands 
over the bridges opposite the town, and at the same time 
General Franklin's lar<Te force was to cross lower down. 

Before daylight on the morning of the nth, under the 
depressing influence of cold and fog, the engineers 
began their work. The party below the town met with 
but little opposition, and by eleven o'clock in the fore- 



i862.] FREDERICKSBURG. 187 

noon General Franklin reported to General Burnside 
that he was ready to cross his division ; but the engi- 
neers opposite the city had not been so fortunate. About 
two thirds of the work had been accomplished when the 
fog lifted and the design of crossing stood revealed to 
the enemy. It was speedily made evident that the 
upper bridge would not be completed without a des- 
perate struggle. Not ten rods from the river stood a 
row of stone houses, and this strategic position was 
quickly utilized by the celebrated Mississippian sharp- 
shooters, who poured forth so fatal a fire that it was like 
murder to keep the men at work. 

"The bridge must be completed," came the spur 
from General Burnside, and again and again brave 
men sprang to the task, only to fall before the deadly 
rain of bullets. Plainly the sharpshooters must be dis- 
lodged if the structure were to be finished. 

" Bring all your guns to bear upon the city and batter 
it down." So ran the order sent to the chief of the Union 
artillery, and the whole line opposite the town promptly 
responded. Once more, with the roar of cannon above 
their heads and the shrieking and crashing of shells all 
around them, the engineers strove to consummate their 
task. The streets of the city were deserted, the houses 
were riddled with shot and shell, and still, safely hidden 
in the cellars of the stone houses along the river, so low 
down that the guns could not be depressed sufficiently 
to shell them out, the Mississippians keep up their mur- 
derous slaughter. 

General Burnside himself came down to the river, 
and immediately called for volunteers to cross it in 
boats, drive the marksmen from the houses, and hold 
the city until the bridges could be finished. It was 



1 88 NINTH NE W HAMPSHIRE. [December , 

almost certain death, yet ten men sprang to the call 
where there was room for only one in the boats. Part 
of the Seventh Michigan was selected to go first, with 
volunteers from the Fiftieth New York as oarsmen, while 
the Nineteenth and Twentieth Massachusetts impatiently 
awaited their turn. 

Now the men are in the boats, the Stars and Stripes 
floating proudly in the van. The shore has been gained, 
but at what fearful cost ! Only a handful are left, but 
they rush up the bank, through the streets, drive out the 
sharpshooters from their hiding-places, and take more 
prisoners than they themselves number. 

"They formed in line of battle ; 
Not a man was out of place. 
Then with levelled steel they hurled them 
Straight in the Rebels' face. 

" O help me, help me, comrade ! 
For tears my eyelids drown, 
As I see their starry banners 
Stream up the smoking town ! " 

Part of the Eighty-ninth New York had succeeded in 
crossing by the middle bridge while the attention of the 
enemy was diverted to the party in the boats, and ably 
supplemented their efforts after they reached the shore. 
The city was ours, and by four o'clock both bridges 
were ready. By the time night had settled down, 
enough troops had been crossed to properly guard the 
city, and the soldiers bivouacked in the open streets and 
gardens. The remainder of the troops, with the excep- 
tion of General Hooker's division, which was retained 
as a reserve, crossed on the 12th, General Sumner's 
division occupying the city that night and connecting 



i862.] FREDERICKSBURG. 189 

with General Franklin's division, which was stationed 
on the wide plain commanding the old Richmond road. 

During all this time General Lee had been putting the 
finishing touches to his preiparations for defence. He 
had ordered up General Jackson from Port Royal, who 
now held the right of the Confederate line, with Long- 
street's corps supporting the left and resting on the river. 
Thus he awaited the attack. 

The following description of the field is by an eye-wit- 
ness of the scene : 

"Such is the field, — a smooth plain, a mile wide and 
two miles long, around Bernard's, reaching up to the 
town. Bernard's farm is cut across by the Port Royal 
road, the old road to Richmond, and by the railroad. 
The Port Royal road is bordered by cedars, thick-set 
hedges, and a deep ditch. There are fences dividing 
the intervale into fields. Deep Run is fringed with 
alders. Marye's hill is quite steep. The Rebel cannon 
sweep all the plain, the field at the base of Marye's, and 
the town itself. The Rebel troops have the protection of 
the sunken road, of the rifle-pits along the crests of the 
hills. They are sheltered by woods, by ravines, by the 
hedges and fences, but Burnside has no cover for his 
troops. They must march out upon the plain, charge up 
the hill-sides, and receive the fire of a sheltered foe." 

General Burnside's plan, in brief, was to employ 
Franklin's division in seizing the railroad at Hamilton's 
Crossing, and General Sumner was to dislodge Long- 
street, if possible, from his stronghold on Marye's hill. 
These two important points gained, he hoped to compel 
the enemy to evacuate the ridge between. General 
Hooker's division was to remain in reserve on the oppo- 
site side of the river. This was the substance of the 



190 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [December, 

orders issued from head-quarters on the morning of the 
13th. 

When the day dawned, friend and foe were alike hid- 
den from sight by the dense fog that floated up from the 
river. Early in the morning a mail arrived, and was dis- 
tributed. How eagerly were the letters read I How the 
messages of love and trust animated the hearts and 
nerved the arms of men who in a few short hours 
were fated to fall in defence of home and country. Sud- 
denly the fog lifted, and the field became one vast thea- 
tre of action. General Meade, of Franklin's division, 
opened the advance on the left, and was met by a heavy 
and enfilading fire from a battery posted so as to rake 
his left and rear. So sudden and vigorous was his attack 
that he nearly reached the second line of the enemy, and 
as it was, over three hundred prisoners were captured 
and taken to the rear. But no reserves were ordered up 
as support to this gallant charge, and after another hour's 
unavailing struggle against Jackson's entire corps the 
plucky leader was forced back, the support coming up just 
in time to enable the now exhausted troops to retire 
with comparative safety. This practically ended the 
attack on the left. 

While we have been watching the contest on the left, 
how has the battle gone with the forces on the right? 
Ah, truly, life has not been held dear here, for the dead 
lie thick at the foot of Marye's hill ! 

The advance for the attack on the heights was across 
the open plain in the rear of the town, and was made by 
Sturgis's division of the Ninth corps and Hancock's and 
French's divisions of the Second. They are marching 
with closed ranks and reserving their fire, while every 
gun in the Confederate battery thunders forth its defiance 



i862.] FREDERICKSBURG. 191 

in hurtling shot and shell. Now they are nearing the 
hill, and, almost together, from the sunken road, from 
the rifle-pits halfway up the hill, and yet again from the 
crest, come sheets of withering flame, and hundreds go 
down before them like wheat under the reaper's sickle. 
Yet on they rush ; the dead and dying are left behind ; 
Sturgis's division reach a sheltered hollow at the foot of 
the hill ; but the other divisions can find no cover, and 
so fierce is the fire from behind that fatal stone wall that, 
brave men as they are, only retreat can save them from 
utter annihilation. 

The movement has been made so rapidly that scarcely 
fifteen minutes has passed before it is all over, and 
Sturgis's division is holding the field alone. There are 
three New Hampshire regiments in this division, — the 
Sixth, Ninth, and Eleventh — and the Granite state may 
well be proud of the part they bore in that terrible day. 
The battery on the crest does its best to drive them out. 
Shot and shell furrow the ground, but all to no purpose. 
All the long, weary afternoon do the men hold their 
position, and as long as they can see pick off" the gun- 
ners with aggravating persistency. 

A second attempt is made to carry the hill, by Penn- 
sylvania troops, backed up by Morell's division of 
veterans. They, too, advance bravely, only to meet 
with the same fate as the previous divisions ; and, again 
like them, are compelled to retreat. 

Night is coming on, and General Franklin has given 
up any further attempt on the left, but General Sumner 
begs to be allowed to lead in one more grand charge 
from the right. He is a thoroughly brave man, one 
who would have fallen rejoicing on the field of battle 
could he have been allowed to avenge the fearful 



192 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [December, 

slaughter of that day- It is decided to make the 
attempt, though General Burnside refuses to allow so 
valued an officer as General Sumner to expose himself 
on the field. The Fifth corps, which until now has 
been held in reserve, is ordered up, and with a portion 
of the Sixth, and led by General Hooker himself, makes 
ready for the final charge. 

The sun is sinking behind the hills as they cross the 
plain, and just as the advance is nearing the foot of the 
hill Longstreet's reserves come sweeping down. Once 
more the cannon rain shot and shell on the devoted host 
— the hills, the valleys, all the earth seems one vast 
sheet of flame under the shock of that last, fierce onset ; 
but the murderous fire has done its work onlv too well, 
and the plain is black with the bodies of the slain as the 
line first wavers and then moves slowly to the rear. 
The third and last attempt has failed, and night merci- 
fully draws her mantle of darkness over the horrible 
scenes below. 



• Eighteen hundred and sixty-two, — 
That is the number of wounded men 

Who, if the telegraph's tale be true. 

Reached Washington city but vestere'en. 



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"And it is but a handful, the telegrams add, 

To those who are coming by boats and cars ; 
Weary and wounded, dying and sad ; 
Covered — but only in front — with scars. 

" Some are wounded by Mini6 shot, 

Others are torn by the hissing shell, 
As it burst upon them as fierce and as hot 
As a demon spawned in a traitor''s hell. 





Thomas J. Priest, Co. H. 



JosiAH Scott, C<5. H. 




Byron D. Leighton, Co. I. 




Corp. Edwin H. Streeter, Co. I. 



1 862.] FREDERICKSBURG. 1 93 

" Some are pierced by the sharp bayonet, 
Others are crushed by the horse's hoof; 
Or fell 'neath the shower of iron which met 
Them as hail beats down on an open roof. 

" Shall I tell what they did to meet this fate? 
Why was this living death their doom? 
Why did they fall to this piteous state 

'Neath the rifle's crack and the cannon's boom? 

" Orders arrived, and the river they crossed ; 

Built the bridge in the enemy's face ; 

No matter how many were shot and lost, 

And floated — sad corpses — away from the place. 

" Orders they heard, and they scaled the height. 
Climbing right into the jaws of death ; 
Each man grasping his rifle-piece tight, 
Scarcely pausing to draw his breath. 

" Sudden flashed on them a sheet of flame 
From hidden fence and from ambuscade ; 
A moment more — (they say this is fame) — 
A thousand men on the grass were laid. 

" Fifteen thousand in wounded and killed. 

At least, is 'our loss,' the newspapers say. 
This loss to our army must surely be filled 
Against another great battle-day. 

" ' Our loss ! ' Whose loss ? Let demagogues say 
That the cabinet, president, — all are in wrong : 
What do the orphans and widows pray? 
What is the burden of their sad song? 



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' 'T is their loss ! But the tears in their weeping eyes 
Hide cabinet, president, generals, — all ; 

And they only can see a cold form that lies 
On the hill-side slope, by that fatal wall. 



XIII 



194 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [December, 

"They cannot discriminate men or means, — 

They only demand that this blundering cease. 
In their frenzied grief they would end such scenes, 
Though that end be — even with traitors — peace. 

" Is thy face from thy people turned, O God? 
Is thy arm for the nation no longer strong? 
We cry from our homes — the dead cry from the sod — 
How long, O our righteous God ! how long? 



The following is the official recognition of the merito- 
rious services of the Army of the Potomac, as tendered 
by the president in behalf of the people : 

Executive Mansion. 
, Washington, December 22, 1862. 

To THE Army of the Potomac : 

I have just read your commanding general's preliminary report of 
the Battle of Fredericksburg. Although you were not successful, the 
attempt was not an error, nor the failure other than an accident. The 
courage with which you, in an open field, maintained the contest against 
an entrenched foe, and the consummate skill and success with which 
you crossed and recrossed the river, in face of the enemy, show that 
you possess all the qualities of a great army, which will yet give victory 
to the cause of the country and of popular government. Condoling 
with the mourners for the dead, and sympathizing with the severely 
wounded, 1 congratulate you that the number of both is comparatively 
so small. 

I tender to you, officers and soldiers, the thanks of the nation. 

Abraham Lincoln. 

It will be remembered that the Ninth New Hampshire 
had been assigned to Nagle's brigade in Sturgis's divis- 
ion of the Ninth corps, which formed a part of the grand 
division under that gallant old hero, General Sumner ; and 
as we review the movements of the army from the time 
they left Pleasant Valley — their perilous journey through 



1 862 . ] FREDERICKSB URG. 1 95 

the valley of the Blue Ridge, the forced march across 
the country to Falmouth, and the history of the futile, yet 
most courageous, assault on the heights at Fredericks- 
burg, we find the Ninth corps always in the advance, 
never shrinking nor faltering in the presence of death, 
but ever presenting a bold front to the foe ; and realiz- 
ing that only tried and true men can constitute such a 
command as this, we feel sure that the Ninth New 
Hampshire fully deserves the proud record it has thus 
far made. 

Only those who have taken part in a battle can under- 
stand the difficulties encountered in presenting a truthful 
picture of the part borne by particular individuals or 
companies in a general assault, and how imperfect at 
best must be the result. It is easy to describe the move- 
ments of great bodies, their advance and retreat ; but in 
a decisive action, where men's lives hang by a hair, 
there is little time for observation. The deafening can- 
non dulls the ears, smoke blinds the eyes ; one knows 
that men are falling about him, some in the peaceful 
embrace of a merciful death, and others groajiing in 
agony beneath the trampling feet of horses and men, 
and yet scarcely realizes, even then, that any moment a 
similar fate may befall him. So it is when the smoke 
has cleared away, and he tries to depict to others what 
he himself has seen and heard. A thousand incidents 
present themselves before him, and then, as never 
before, he comprehends how feeble are words to express 
the reality of what has occurred. Therefore, we can- 
not but feel that the tbllowing description of the specific 
action of the Ninth regiment, though told by active par- 
ticipants, is but a tithe of what might be written as to 
what befell them on that bloody field. 



196 NINTH NEIV HAMPSHIRE. [December, 

** We crossed the pontoon bridge Friday morning, 
December 12, at sunrise, and remained all day in the 
streets of Fredericksburg. That night we obtained a 
good night's rest, sleeping upon our arms in the streets. 
Heavy firing commenced early Saturday morning ; we 
were immediately placed under arms, and kept in that 
state of suspense w^hich none but a soldier can appre- 
ciate, moving now^ this Avay a little, now that, and every 
moment expecting to be 'ordered in,' till about i p. m., 
when our brigade was ordered in, not as a whole, but by 
regiments. 

" Our regiment moved to the rear and left of the city, 
and swinging to the right, advanced along the open field 
towards the railroad. Having crossed the railroad we 
soon came under a galling artillery fire. We now took 
a double-quick, and the fire increased as we neared the 
deep cut, through which is the carriage road running 
west from the city. 

" The sides of this cut were perhaps fifteen feet high, 
and nearly perpendicular. As we were rushing into this. 
Lieutenant Lewis was hit by a piece of bursting shell 
just as he had gained the first embankment, and fell 
headlong to the bottom, a corpse. 

"Two pieces of rebel artillery had perfect range of 
this cut, and poured through it an incessant storm of 
shell and canister. It was with the greatest difficulty 
that the men, under their heavy burdens, could ascend 
the opposite bank, yet to remain there for any time was 
annihilation. There was no retreat ; to remain there was 
death, and to go forward — when once we had gained the 
top of the embankment there was the same murderous 
fire of artillery, combined with that of infantry. 

"Many of our officers behaved with great courage, 





Lieut. C. D. Copp, Co. C. 



Capt. C. D. Copp, Co. C. 




Phineas R. Huntoon, Co. C. 




Lieut. John E. Mason, Co. D. 



i862.] FREDERICKSBURG. ip7 

some of them leaping up the embankment and then pull- 
ing up their men. The ascent was much more difficult 
on the left than on the right, and the loss in the left 
companies was very heavy. Then, having gained the 
opposite embankment, we had entered what has been 
appropriately termed the ' slaughter pen.' 

"To reach the front we now had to swing to the left 
and advance across an open field, every foot of which 
was exposed to the fire of the rebel artillery, and upon 
which rained a perfect shower of bullets. This plain 
was already thickly strewn with the dead and dying of 
other regiments, and at every step, though advancing at 
the top of our speed, wide gaps were made in our ranks 
by cannon shot and shell, and many sank down pierced 
by the deadly Minie. 

" In crossing fences and ditches and passing build- 
ings, the companies became somewhat separated from 
each other. The color bearer was mortally wounded, 
and several of the color guard were among the killed 
and wounded. Under the hottest fire, when the color 
sergeant was shot and the well aimed fire of the enemy 
seemed to threaten annihilation, Lieut. C. D. Copp of 
the color company seized the National colors and threw 
himself in advance of his company, which position he 
kept until the front line was reached. There the men, 
with those of other regiments, sheltering themselves as 
much as possible by knolls, embankments, walls, etc., 
kept up a terrific fire till after dark, when, our ammuni- 
tion being expended, we moved back into the city, 
replenished our cartridge boxes, and then returned to 
another portion of the field, where, however, we had no 
fighting. 

" During Sunday and Monday we had no fighting, 



198 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [December, 

but on Monday night were again ordered to the front, 
where we remained within a few yards of the rebel 
pickets till about midnight, when we were moved 
stealthily back through the city, in whose streets was 
not now to be seen a man of those thousands who com- 
pletely thronged them a few hours before, except a few 
companies or decimated battalions like ourselv^es, mov- 
ing stealthily towards the pontoon bridge which we had 
crossed three days before in high expectation of winning 
a glorious victory." 

Brigadier-General Nagle, in his official report to Gen- 
eral Burnside after the battle, thus describes the work 
of the brigade to which the Ninth New Hampshire 
beloncred : 



t) 



Head-Quarters First Brigade, 2D Div., qth Army Corps. 
Near Falmouth, Va., December i6th, 1S62. 

General : I have the honor to submit the following report of the 
part taken by my Brigade in the recent operations against the enemy : 
On the morning of Friday, the 12th inst., in obedience to your order, 
I crossed the Rappahannock, in the vicinity of the Lacy House, with 
my Brigade, and took position under the shelter on the opposite side 
of the river. I remained in this position until 4 p. m., when I moved 
my troops a short distance down the first street running parallel with 
the river, where we bivouacked for the night. On the morning of the 
13th we moved further down said street, left in front, until we came 
up with the right of General Getty's troops. Here I remained until 
12 :3o o'clock p. m., when I by your order advanced to the support of 
General Ferrero, who was already engaged ; I moved by the right of 
regiments to the front, to pass obstacles, until I got to the rear of the 
town, when the regiments formed in line of battle. 

The Sixth New Hampshire (Colonel Griffin) and the Seventh Rhode 
Island (Colonel Bliss) advanced to the front on the right of the rail- 
road, in good order, under a murderous fire from the enemy's artillery. 
The Second Maryland (Colonel Allard), Twelfth Rhode Island 
(Colonel Brown), and Ninth New Hampshire (Lieutenant-Colonel 



,85jj FREDERICKSBURG. '99 

Babbitt commanding), being on the left of tbe railroad were moved in 
order, under sltelter as mucl, as possible, to the ra.lroad cut, and r m 
there advanced to the front. The Forty-eighth Pennsylvama (Colonel 
Sigfried) was for a time held in reserve ; a. . :3o p. m- t.e Forty-e.gh h 
Pennsylvania was ordered to the front. The men marched forward 
under a galling fire, like true veterans. 

The whole of n.y Brigade remained in the front, and d.d good ser- 
vice until after sixty rounds of ammunition had been expended, and 
until they were relieved at dusk by other troops, when by your order 
„.y comlnd was withdrawn, in good order, to the pos.t.on occup.d 
on the previous night. The men were here supplied wUh ammunition, 
and then bivouacked for the night. 

My Brigade remained in the same position until Monday evemng, 
.hen I w:s again by your orders moved to the front, with instructions 
W. koUi tke aty at all I.a.ar,s, I placed my troops in po ^^ on 
the left of the railroad, and commenced to strengthen and fortify my 
position by throwing up intrenchments, and digging nfle-pits etc^ 
At 1 1 • 30 p m. bv your order I withdrew my command across the river 
to our former camps. My Brigade went into action with about 2,700 
men and my total loss amounts to 522. 

TOO much praise cannot be given to the officers and men of m> 
command, especially the Ninth New Hampshire, Forty-eighth Penn- 
sylvania, Sixth New Hampshire, and Seventh Rhode Island. 

[Signed] James Nagle, 

Brigadier- General. 

To 

Brigadier-General Sturgis, 

Commanding 2d Div., 
gth Artny Corps. 



FOLLOWING THE CAMP. 

Five weeks have slipped away since General Burnside 
assumed command of the army, and as we trace the 
record of the Ninth New Hampshire, day by day, through 
their diaries and letters, we get a glimpse of lite m the 
field such as can be gained in no other way. To men 



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200 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [November, 

transported as these had been into scenes wholly for- 
eign to those to which they had been accustomed, every- 
thing about them was of interest ; and while the thought 
of the battles he has fought may even now bring the old- 
time thrill to the soldier's heart, yet after all, his memory 
lingers most fondly on his life in the camp, — the joys 
and sorrows that made up his daily portion : so once 
again we gather up the threads of the many-hued web, 
and weave another scene in the tapestry picture. 

THE DAILY RECORD. 
By the rank and file. 

" Nov. 9. We are having a rest to-day, and it is 
such a luxury to be permitted to rest on God's holy day, 
tho' the men are chopping wood for camp-fires, washing 
their clothes, and in fact doing their own work and ' find- 
ing their own pleasure,' and we sit curled up in our little 
tent, the cold wind keeping it meanwhile filled with 
smoke from the little fire in front. 

"At 2 1-2 p. m. the chaplain invited all to his tent 
who were interested in keeping up religious meetings, 
with the intention of making arrangements for regular 
meetings, but we were hardly seated when we heard the 
order ' Strike tents ! ' and thus ended our first meeting. 

" Started about 3 1-2 o'clock. Passed thro' Glen 
Mills. Crossed a fork of the Rappahannock. Many of 
the houses along the road have been deserted. The 
land in this part of the state is sandy, and much of it 
not under cultivation. Marched about five miles, and 
camped near Amissville, where other troops had just 
left and their camp-fires were still burning." 

" Ordered to pack at 3 p. m. ; had the privilege, how- 



i862.] FREDERICKSBURG. 20I 

ever, of sending out letters. Crossed the Rappahannock 
at Glen Mills, passed through a little village called 
Amissville, and occupied a little ridge beyond, relieving 
a portion of another brigade. It seems we are at length 
hard on to quite a body of the enemy. Are in fact at 
the front, and liable to have a scrimmage with the rascals 
ourselves. Saw an innumerable flock of crows this 
p. m., flying southward over our line of march. Their 
vast column extended in either direction as far as the 
eye could reach, and occupied hours in passing." 

" Nov. lo. Report in the morning that we are to 
remain in camp to-day, and many of us went to washing 
our clothes. 

" About 9 a. m. heard cannonading ; at lo 1-2 ordered 
to fall in. Proceeded a little way and met the baggage 
train and cavalry returning. Soon a battery opened 
upon us. Our batter}'^ took position on a little eminence, 
and replied with vigor. Threw out skirmishers, and 
advanced in line of battle. 

" Colonel Fellows comes along and says, ' Better eat 
some hard-tack, boys, while you have a chance ;' and 
thereupon we all went to crunching the delicious stuff". 
Firing ceased towards night, when we stacked arms and 
made some coffee." 

" Manv of the men are out of hard-tack and have 

mi 

nothing to eat. I had a scanty supper, which I spliced 
by parching an ear of corn which I picked up by the 
roadside to-day. 

"Am feeling a little chilly for want of my shirt, which 
I took off^ to have washed this morning and have not 
got dry enough to put on yet. 

"Just as we were about to turn in, our company with 
one other was detailed to go out in support of a battery 



202 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [November, 

about a mile distant. Did not pitch any tents. Woke 
up in the night feehng very chilly ; went and lay down 
by a fire, and in my eagerness to warm my back burned 
out the back of my overcoat." 

" Had the liveliest scramble yet for rails. A quarter of 
a mile of fence was on its way to camp in less than three 
minutes from the time the first rail started. Supper 
was the next thing. 'It beats all nater' how much we 
can eat, provided we can get it. . . . Gladly picked 
up bits of crackers which another regiment had left 
scattered about their camp-ground. About nine in the 
evening Companies E and C were sent to support a 
battery near where we were this morning. Spread my 
blanket in the sheltering crook of a fence, and with a 
comrade slept long and well, though the ground froze 
quite hard." 

'' I am now sitting by a big fire of rails. Virginia will 
have any amount of rails to split when the war is over." 

"Nov. II. "No firing heard to-day except at a con- 
siderable distance. In the afternoon took some cloth 
from an old pair of pants and put a new ' breadth ' into 
the back of my overcoat where I burned it out last night ; 
result — a rare work of art. 

"Many of the men had nothing to eat till we drew 
rations to-day. Received a mail in the evening, which 
had the usual effect upon our dispositions." 

"Received a bundle in the mail containing a shirt and 
a pair of gloves. The latter are particularly acceptable, 
and the former, seeing that now, for the first time in two 
months, I am the owner of two shirts, will not come 
amiss." 

" Nov. 12. Reveille at 5 a. m., and without stopping 
for breakfast marched back to the place we left Sunday. 



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FREDERICKSBURG. 203 

Made a short stop, and then 'Assembly' sounded, and 
we were hurried over a fearfully rough road s.x or eight 
miles farther, to White Sulphur Springs. . . • 1 here 
was a good deal of swearing among the men before we 
reached our destination though. This mornmg Downs 
TEdwin W., Company E], who has been poorly for 
some time and was straggling along behmd, was cap- 
tured by the Johnnies, who had followed us pretty close 
as far al the river, together with the big coffee-po and 
all of the spoons of the captain's mess, whtch he had 
been commissioned to carry. 

'.Joined the regiment and moved back to the ground 
we left Sunday and camped. Wen. to the brook and 
washed from head to foot, and then went to a corn-field 
to hunt for stray ' nubbins ' of corn. By d.hgent search 
I had found a few, when I perceived the regiment fall- 

'" "Our cooks had drawn a few beans, and had just got 
them to stewing when the order to march came. We 
ateTh m half rL, and started with a little raw corn m 
our haversacks. Made a hasty march of about e.gh 
miles and camped near White Sulphur Springs Made 
some coffee, and Barber and I used the last of a little 
Indian meal which we have been using very parsimoni- 
ously to make some gruel, parched and ate^some corn, 
and turned in, thankful for a ' good supper. 

" I learned to-day what it was to be hungry. So 
much so that I was compelled to eat raw pork. 

The reason of this scarcity was because the division's 
supply train had been captured. The two armies were 
hovering very near each other and skirmishes were fre- 
quent. One stormy evening, the march being delayed, 
the train was waiting in the road for orders as to time 



204 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [November, 

and place for packing. A Confederate officer disguised 
in a Union uniform rode up to the officers in charge of 
the train, saying, " General So-and-so directs that you 
pack your train one side here, and if you will follow me, 
I will show you where." The train was at once moved 
into a field near by, but no sooner was in place than a 
line of Johnnies was around it and it was taken away to 
replenish their larders. A good " haul" for them, but 
a sore one for the hungry men whose stomachs went 
empty for a number of days. 

" Nov. 13. — Orders came at one o'clock of the nth 
to be ready to march at five, and the baggage train at 
three, so as to get ahead, as it was found that the rebels 
had nearly surrounded us and were trying to cut us oflf. 

" We marched back five miles to our old camp- 
ground, and expected to remain there through the day, 
but did not but three hours. The tents were nearly all 
pitched, and the beans (which we had this morning) 

were about half cooked, and I got a d g from the 

teamster for insisting on having them put on, as they 
were already overloaded. ... I have just eaten 
my dinner, consisting of coffee and pork roasted on a 
stick, which I like better than fried. . . . When 
you get this, make me some little bags out of stout cot- 
ton cloth, size about four inches square, to put coffee, 
tea, sugar, etc., in, which I carry in my haversack 
sometimes with three days' rations." 

"Exchanged a bit of pork for a small piece of beef 
this morning, which, with some parched corn, made us 
quite a palatable tho' not very bountiful breakfast." 

"Not a little growling this morning. The scarcity of 
hard-tack seems to be accompanied by scarcity of patriot- 
ism. 



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-Visited ruins of White Sulphur Springs in the after- 

The place must have been magnificent 
noon. . • • ^ ^^^ piav.»- 

before its destruction. The main building .s four stones 
high, tho- nothing now remains of it but its blackened 
walls and massive brick pillars which surrounded the 
„,ain building and supported the balconies. Near the 
Springs was a marble statue of the 'Goddess of Health, 
which has been wantonly and disgracefully broken m 

pieces." 

-Strolled down to the Springs this afternoon. . • • 

The grounds are very tastefully laid out, and were kept 
till recently in excellent trim. A large four-story hotel 
fronted the highway and partially hid the grounds. 
This was flanked with long, low ranges of hospital build- 
ings, with bowling-alley, bath-houses, etc., arranged 
conveniently around. It is said to have been the roof ' 
beneath which the ordinance of the secession of Virginia 
was signed. . • • When you write again, send me a 
small box of unguentum, as I must have something to 
rout the lice. They will be carrying me oft yet unless i 
take some desperate measures with them. . • • ^^ 
Do n't worry about our clothing, as we are well supplied. 

-Since writing you on Sunday we have marched and 
countermarched more than twenty-five miles, but are 
now distant from our camp of Sunday morning only 

about six miles. . 

.. On Sunday morning we left camp expecting a fight, 
as Pleasonton's cavalry had been skirmishing all the 
morning. We went quite to their pickets (the rebels . 
and formed line of battle and advanced over ground lately 
left by the enemv. We did not come up with them, 
however, though 'our cavalry had some smart firing with 
them and drove them back. We slept on the field that 



2o6 NINTH NE IV HAMPSHIRE. [November, 

night, and the next day kept our ground. We have 
since changed to this locality, where we may be attacked 
at any time. 

"You may not be aware of the existence of the White 
Sulphur Springs hotel, which is now quite near our 
camp. It was once a place of noted resort for invalids 
and tourists in this region. The hotels — large brick 
edifices of splendid proportions and style — were destroyed 
by the rebels just before Pope's passage through this 
region last summer, and are now a mass of ruins, but 
the grounds and lawns and fountains are all left, show- 
ing what was once a noble establishment. The spring 
is strongly sulphur, and the water tastes like as if gun- 
powder were dissolved in it. The furniture of many of 
the bath-houses and dwellings designed for families is 
still left. You will recollect this place as that where Mr. 
John Goss and family were engaged hotel-keeping before 
going into the National at Washington." 

"Nov. 14. — For a wonder, remained in camp, on the 
same ground we occupied yesterday. . . . Another 
mail to-day." 

" Last night one of the Compan}^ H men died in his 
tent. . . . We are well supplied with ambulances, 
and yet sick men are compelled to march at the point of 
the bayonet. I pray to be delivered from sickness even 
above death itself while I am in the army.'* 

" Nov. 15. — Broke camp at daybreak. Were hindered 
a long time in crossing a creek. About 9:12 a. m. a rebel 
battery opened briskly and was well answered by ours. 

" Their shells seemed to be aimed principally at our 
baggage train, which was hurried to a less exposed 
position as fast as the terrified muleteers could urge 
their more fearless quadrupeds, who would be sure to 



i862.] FREDERICKSBURG. 207 

exhibit their total depravity by balking in the most 
unexpected places, and breaking out wagon poles 
wherever shell flew the thickest. For a time everything 
indicated an engagement, but the rebel battery at length 
withdrew from our front and we marched till dark." 

" (Noon.) We are at rest a few miles from White 
Sulphur Springs, having left there early this morning. 
Our baggage train was shelled while leaving 
by the 'rebs,' who were near by, and came near being 
taken prisoners. One teamster was wounded and wagon 
demolished by a shell." 

"Went into camp at Fayettesville, on the same field 
with General Doubleday's division. Weather fine." 

" Nov. 16. — Our ' Sabbath day's journeys ' differ from 
those of the old Jews in that they are generally longer 
than the journeys of other days. 

" Made a severe march thro' one of the most desolate 
and barren regions I have yet seen. Came in sight of a 
railroad for the first time in two weeks. Camped about 
three miles from Warrenton Junction. 

" No bread in camp, but most of the men have man- 
aged to ' abduct ' some corn from the horse and mule 
rations, and this, parched, serves as hard-tack." 

" On guard at night, which was very dark and 
threatened to be rainy. Did not have a very hard 
time, as my post was at general head-quarters, beside a 
good fire." 

"Nov. 17. — A dark and gloomy day. Being called 
into line at an early hour. Colonel Fellows took his ac- 
customed place in front for the last time, and after read- 
ing his resignation and the order accepting the same, 
made a brief but pointed farewell address to the officers 
and soldiers of the Ninth New Hampshire volunteers. 



208 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [November, 

". . . Colonel Fellows combines in himself the rare 
qualifications of mildness and sternness, bravery and 
prudence, and none of the officers present can now fill 
his place. We shall now long for the return of Lieuten- 
ant-Colonel Titus. Our quartermaster also resigned, 
and returned home with Colonel Fellows. 

" The country seems to be full of troops. The infan- 
try are obliged to take the fields and give the roads to 
the supply trains and artillery. This renders the march- 
ing very hard." 

" Nearly all the forenoon w^as occupied in issuing 
rations. The sight of these has revived the boys' droop- 
ing spirits wonderfully. In the afternoon took up line 
of march for Fredericksburg ; accomplished about ten 
miles. The whole corps was in motion at the same 
time, and in as compact a body as possible, one division, 
with the artillery and baggage, keeping the road, with 
one of the other tw^o on either side. It was a grand and 
imposing spectacle, and one not often seen — 25,000 men, 
with miles of trains in compact order, tramping through 
fields and forests. I did n't wonder much at the excla- 
mation of an old lady who stood in the doorway of her 
cabin and watched us as we passed, — ' Dear suz ! I 
did n't s'pose there wuz so many folkses in the world!' 
. Went into camp at five o'clock." 

*' Nov. 18. — Routed at half-past three o'clock and 
started at daybreak. Camped about half-past one in 
the afternoon, eight miles from Fredericksburg." 

" Our whole corps on one field. Starting at day- 
light, we had marched some twelve or fourteen miles 
by one o'clock, when, well tired out, we encamped, and 
enjoyed not a little the chance for rest. . . . The 
weather has been warm, foggy, and more or less rainy 
for two or three da3's past." 




Lieut. S. Horace Perry, Co. G. 



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" Nov. 19. — Foggy, with some rain. Travelling very 
slippery. Reached Falmouth, opposite Fredericksburg, 
at I p. m. Saw this sign on one of the groceries: 
' Good chuing tobacco for sale here.' 

" 2 :30 p. m. — Are now drawn out on a large plain and 
ordered to rest on our arms, as our artillery is expected 
soon to open on the town. . . . Our batteries are so 
planted that it seems they could destroy the place in an 
hour. At dark all is quiet and have pitched our tents. 
Went to the bank of the river and took a look at the 
city opposite. It is a larger town than I had supposed, 
and a fine-looking place for a Southern city. The rebel 
pickets occupy Fredericksburg, and over the Falmouth 
bank of the Rappahannock are within speaking distance, 
and are firing off blank cartridges of wit at a great rate." 

" Our boys have been down to the river, talking with 
the rebel pickets on the other side, cracking jokes, and 
giving each other a history of what is to come. They 
say we shall take Richmond in ashes." 

" Encamped a short distance back from the river. 
The city is still in the hands of the enemy. They have 
destroyed the bridges, and show some signs of making a 
stand here. . . . Hope by to-morrow our flag 
will be waving triumphantly over the second city of 
Virginia. . . . Our guns command completely the 
whole city, and as soon as our pontoon train can arrive 
and bridge the river, it must fall into our hands." 

[The following incident of special detail is contributed 
by Lieut. S. H. Perry, at that time sergeant of Com- 
pany I :] 

"The regiment arrived opposite Fredericksburg in 
the afternoon of November 19, and went into camp on 
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2IO NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [November, 

the bluff in rear of the Lacy House. Company I, of 
which I was a member, was detailed for picket duty that 
ni<'-ht, our posts extending from the railroad bridge about 
halfway to a ford near Falmouth. As sergeant, I was 
in command of the post at the ferry opposite the city. 

" Next morning, about seven o'clock, an orderly came 
for the officer in command of that post to report to 
General Patrick, provost marshal-general of the Army of 
the Potomac. I did so at once, and received from him 
a white flag, with orders to go to the shore, wave the 
flag, and demand the surrender of the city of Fredericks- 
burg in his name. Carrying out these instructions, I 
received a reply stating that the one in command would 
meet the general, and agree upon terms if possible. This 
statement proved to be only a ruse, however, in order 
that more time might be gained for the opposing army 
to get into position." 

" Nov. 20. — Rained fearfully the latter part of the 
night, and before morning most of the tents were com- 
pletely flooded. . . . There is no wood within a 
long distance of camp, many of the men are completely 
drenched, and altogether it is a cheerless time. 

"At nine and a half a. m. one of our cannon opened 
on a train of cars which the rebs undertook to move from 
Fredericksburg. At ten o'clock cannonading quite brisk. 
. Tremendous rain continued all day and night. 
As we had no wood for a fire and no candles, turned in 
at dark and slept no less than twelve hours." 

" It is only one week to Thanksgiving, and I should 
like very much to be with you, but I know I cannot, so 
must make the best of it. I will be very thankful if they 
will give me plenty of hard-tack. Much more so than I 
ever was for a roast turkey at home." 



211 



^ FREDERICKSBURG. 

" It rained ' right smart,' to use the Virginia phrase, 
last night, and as our bivouac is upon low ground, we 
all came near taking an involuntary bath. Vartous 
were the expressions of feeling as we were summoned 
by the reveille from under our ' shelties' mto the hqmd 
elements witlrout. . • • A few of us, at length, 
by uniting our efforts, succeeded in getting up qu.te a 
respectable fire, and fortifying the inner man with a 
supply of hot coffee and fried hard-tack, concluded, 
unless we got drowned, we should probably Uve for 
some time to come. . • • The storm contmued 
through the day, which we spent in keepmg as com- 
fortable as we could, and in preparing, by gettmg 
brush, for our beds, etc., for the mght." 

.- Nov 21— Left camp about 3 P- ■"• I' '= «"'' ">*' 
several rebel batteries were discovered, all trained upon 
this plain, densely covered with our troops, wh.ch was 
the cause of our hasty move. Moved about a m.le. 

■'This storm, and the non-arrival of the pontoons, 
seems to have ended our advance for the present Just 
at night moved back onto the hills east of Falmouth, and 
went into camp near both wood and water, and on dry 
smooth ground. Pitched our tents for about the twentieth 
time since leaving Pleasant Valley, cooked our supper, 
and by the light of blazing camp-fires perused the con- 
tents of a huge mail-bag that arrived this evenmg. If 
we only had some of the cider and apples you speak of, 
think we could go to bed as jolly as if we were at home. 
As it is, we are far from sober." 

.'Thursday night Company I went on picket on the 
edge of the river, where we stood in the rain and n,ud 
ankle-deep until the next night. While there the bri- 
gade moved, and here we were, not relieved so as to get 



212 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [November, 

into camp until 9 a. m., without a dry thread about us; 
we were glad to throw ourselves upon the ground and 
sleep, and I am sure I never slept sounder ; it was quite 
enough to take one's patriotism from him ; but when we 
got into camp around a good fire, eating our suppers of 
coffee and hard-tack, you might see a jolly crowd." 

" Nov. 22. — Went to Falmouth in the evening with 
Burnham. Carried about nine pounds of 'surplus' 
coffee belonging to the company, which we exchanged 
for about fifty pounds of flour, wdiich w^e lugged back to 
camp, a distance of three miles." 

[Burnham says, — ] 

"We tried what we thought would be a short cut 
through the woods, but if the distance was less the road 
was worse. . . . Falmouth is a little, dirty village, 
of perhaps three hundred inhabitants before the war. It 
has a large flouring-mill, several stores, and was evi- 
dently once the centre of considerable trade and busi- 
ness, but everything here has a w^orn-out, dilapidated 
appearance now. . . . Prices are what in New 
England would seem rather exorbitant : Flour, twenty 
dollars per barrel ; butter, sixty cents per pound ; sugar, 
seventy-five cents ; salt, one hundred dollars per sack, 
and so on." 

[It was at this disheartening stage of affairs that the 
following congratulatory order was issued :] 

Head-Ouarteks, 9TH Army Corps, 
Opposite Fredericksburg, Va., November 22d, 1862. 
General Orders 
No. 13. 
The Brigadier-General Commanding congratulates the troops of 
the 9th Corps on the cheerful and soldier-like manner in which duty 



i862.] FREDERICKSBURG. 213 

has been performed and hardships endured, during the last month. 
Night marches, short rations, exposure to stormy November weather, 
with its rains and snows, while moving in the advance, or with the 
enemy on our flanks for several weeks, all have been borne nobly. 
While animated by such a spirit troops are equal to any emergency, 
and it is with confidence that we face the dangers and trials of 
the future. In view of the coming operations, the Brigadier-General 
Commanding directs the attention of the officers particularly to a 
few points of military importance. 

1 . Outpost duty requires all the intelligence and skill we can com- 
mand, in order to secure the rest and quiet of the camp, and to pre- 
vent surprises. The Army Regulations on this subject should be 
studied from paragraph 602 to 642, and pickets should be posted in 
such a manner as to sustain each other in case of attack, and, sup- 
ported by the Grand Guards, hold the enemy in check long enough 
for the Corps to form for battle. Division, Brigade, and Regimental 
commanders will look particularly both to the instruction of officers, 
and to the performance of picket and grand guard duty. 

2. Company and all other officers will see that their men have 
always two or three days rations about their persons, that their 
cartridge boxes contain forty rounds of ammunition, and that their 
arms are always clean and in good firing condition. The men them- 
selves will not wait for their officers to prompt them to these necessary 
conditions to their comfort and safety. New troops are cautioned 
against overloading their knapsacks. 

3. On going into action let all remember the necessity of keeping 
cool, closing well up on the enemy, and taking good aim. Cavalry 
charges are always to be met, not by random firing, but by a well 
directed volley, which will inevitably scatter the horses. Artillery fire 
is more frightful in sound and appearance than reaHty, and the quicker 
the men move over the ground to the front the smaller will be the loss. 
One well aimed bullet does more execution than ten that are not aimed, 
so that four good shots are worth more than forty rounds fired at 
random. Ammunition should not be wasted. Many battles are lost 
because ammunition gives out at just the critical moment. Even 
rapid firing can best be conducted coolly and with regular aim. 

Finally, fellow-soldiers, let us all remember the enthusiasm and 
patriotism which filled our breasts on first taking up arms for the good 



214 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [November, 

of the country ; that we are fighting for the permanent peace and 
welfare of our famihes, homes, and firesides, and that by a heroic 
effort on the part of every man, this campaign may terminate the war. 
By Command of Brigadier-General Willcox : 

ROBT. A. HUTCHINS, 

Captain aiid Assistant Adjittant-Gejieral. 

" Nov. 23. — We are grateful for another Sabbath of 
rest. Great preparations seem to be on foot for a battle. 
The smoke of camp-fires is seen for miles on every hand, 
and the beating of drums, the blowing of bugles and the 
clatter of cavalry, the rumbling of army trains and 
thundering of artillery over the stony roads, keep up a 
perfect din by day, and thousands of cold and hungry 
mules with their hideous braying give free concerts ' for 
the benefit of the soldiers' every night.'' 

" Cool, but not very uncomfortable. Inspection in the 
morning, religious services by the chaplain in the atter- 
noon. Text of sermon : Rev. xxii,3." 

"Nov. 24. — Were required to lay out our camp in 
regular order and to 'fix up' our quarters as comfortably 
as possible. Evidently the general's plans have 
changed, but why, is more than any of us know." 

" Nov. 25. — We went out scouting with Charlie Hurl- 
butt, going as far as we thought it prudent. Saw a 
review of General Birney's division by General Hooker. 
The troops of the command, consisting of eighteen regi- 
ments and two six-gun batteries, were drawn up in three 
long lines of battle, in the open, showy order peculiar to 
such occasions. The generals rode first along the front, 
and then back along the rear, of each of these, the 
bands playing ' Hail to the Chief.' They then took their 
position in front of the first, and the troops, in column of 
companies, passed in review before them, the music 



1 862 .] FREDERICKSB UR G. 2 1 5 

playing lively marching airs. They were well drilled 
and appeared finely, and as I listened to the soul-stirring 
strains of the music, and saw battalion after battalion 
pass with gleaming bayonets and streaming banners, I 
was almost chained to the spot, and formed new and 
enlarged ideas of the magnitude and strength of our 
army." 

"Nov. 26. — The weather was cold, and it was very 
muddy this morning, it having rained nearly all night. 
This time, however, our shanty was fortunately in a 
condition to shed water, and we slept dry and comforta- 
ble. . . . General Sumner reviewed our division 
this morning." 

Nov. 27. — " I doubt whether there were ever before so 
many vacant chairs or sad hearts in New England as 
there are to-day. . . . Early in the afternoon Com- 
pany E was detailed for picket. Marching to the Rap- 
pahannock we found that we were not needed on the 
posts, and so retired to the vicinity of the Lacy House 
and spent the night. Finding a pile of boards. Barber 
and I spread our blankets on some of them and fixed 
some of the rest into a kind of roof, and altogether our 
roof and house were the greatest luxuries of the day." 

" I am having a Thanksgiving even here. Shall I 
tell you in what it consists? Feeling a little unwell this 
morning, and remembering the Latin proverb, '7^7W£'5 
optimum condimentum est,^ I ate only one hard-tack with 
a little coffee for my breakfast. ... I made some 
flapjacks for my Thanksgiving Dinner, and sprinkled on 
them my day's ration of sugar, and I had a delicious 
dinner. We are to have some boiled beans for supper, 
which will be a great luxury for us, as we have had no 
variety for some time, though we have had plenty of 
good hard-tack and meat." 



2 1 6 NINTH NE W HA MPSHIKE. [November. 

"As I made me a cup of coffee this morning and 
scalded my hard-tacks to kill the worms in them, I felt 
that there were those who had nothing to eat, and after 
satisfying the inner man I said, 'O Lord, I thank thee 
that it is as well with me as it is !' " 

" Rising at six o'clock from a bed of pine boughs and 
army blankets, I made a rush for the brook, and after 
several minutes spent in rubbing and scrubbing con- 
cluded I could see, and would pass muster here in this 
land of dirt and smoke. . . . Breakfast was the 
next thing on the programme. Imagine, if you can, 
eight or ten of us round a smoky fire of green pine, 
cooking coffee in our tin cups, frying pork and hard- 
tack on our tin plates, with split sticks for handles, 
toasting crackers on the coals — talking, laughing, eat- 
ing, and wiping from our tanned and blackened faces 
the tears that the merciless smoke extorts, 
attended the religious services, which Chaplain Gushee 
conducted in a very interesting manner for the two New 
Hampshire regiments of our brigade, in front of General 
Nagle's tent. Text : i Thess. v, i8. ... Company 
E and three or four others were detailed for picket and 
ordered to pack up immediately." 

"Attended service in front of General Nagle's quar- 
ters, we playing for the same. This serves to break the 
monotony of camp life, but the grub remains the same as 
other da3's." 

[Some of the Company E bo\^s sent to the old mill 
and bought a few pounds of flour, and decided to have a 
" minute pudding"' for their Thanksgiving dinner. The 
flour had been manufactured evidently from " grown 
wheat," was very musty, and evidence was not want- 
ing that the rats had enjoyed free access to it. The 



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FREDERICKSBURG. 217 



finishing touch was given by the cook, who burned 
the pudding in the making, and if it did not taste of 
all the colors of the rainbow it certainly smelt of all 
the odors of Tartarus.] 

..Nov. 28.— Yesterday being Thanksgiving Day, I 
began a long letter to you . . • when I was inter- 
rupted, and have not had time to resume. . . • My 
health was never so good as now. I only feel a little 
reluctant to go to bed, which consists of the ground, 
and is pretty cold to warm up." 

"This morning we find ourselves on a beautiful site 
of land, from which we get a grand view of the city. 
I can see perhaps a thousand chimneys piercing the 
roofs of Fredericksburg, yet from all this number the 
smoke is seen curling from only a very few, which 
tells us that the inhabitants have left their homes and 
fled to the country ; but on the rising ground beyond 
the town may be seen batteries and redoubts and long 
lines of breastworks rising one above the other, and all 
ready to pour down upon us volleys of lead and iron 
whenever we shall attempt to cross the river." 

"A comfortless creature is a sick soldier at this season 
of the year. If we attempt to warm ourselves the smoke 
drives in our faces, while we freeze one side and roast the 
other. If we go into our tents, they are cold, muddy, and 
repulsive, and among our army rations there is nothing 
that one a little out of health does not perfectly loathe." 
" No guard mount this morning. Played for brigade 
drill, and afterwards for dress parade." 

" The ' reb' pickets are just across the river, perhaps 
fifty rods broad at this point, and sometimes bandy words 
with our men. Farther back some of their fortifications 
are in view, and the hills beyond are smoky with their 



2 1 8 NINTH NE W HA MPS HI RE. [November, 

camp-fires. Picked a rosebud from a well-loaded bush 
in the garden of the De Lacv House, where we staved 
last nigfht." 

" Nov. 29. — Saturday is washing day with us, it being 
understood that the men have the day as much to them- 
selves as possible for this purpose." 

" Nov. 30. — I would like to have you know that we 
have wet rains in Virginia, such as you know nothing 
of in Vermont. ... At present we are some ways 
from wood, and on a hill, where the wind strikes us in 
every direction. 

" . . . Had to deal out three days' rations to the 
men, consisting of hard-tack, pork, coffee, and sugar, 
also rice and beans, which are cooked in a mess. We 
also have 1.1-4 pounds of fresh beef every other day. 
The ration of pork is twelve ounces per day, both of 
which the men prefer to cook themselves. We feel the 
need of more sugar, it being only fifteen pounds to one 
hundred men, which makes two large spoontuls per day 
to a man. . . . The $5.00 — Vermont or New 
Hampshire money — is good here, but I could pass that 
$5.00 Secesh bill that I sent you if I had it. 

" . . . I have sent to Washington for a field 
sword for the captain as a present from the company, 
costing $13.00, to be paid for equally by them. Colonel 
Titus will bring it with him. ... I sent a paper 
with a hard-tack enclosed the 27th." 

" This morning played for general inspection, this 
afternoon for services at the Forty-eighth Pennsylvania 
head-quarters." 

"Sermon by the chaplain in the afternoon. Text: 
Luke xxi, 25. A cold place to worship, to sit on the 
wet ground in a cold windy day." 



1 862.] FREDERICKSBURG. 219 

"Dec. I. — Regular drills have been instituted, of 
nearly four hours per day, Saturdays and Sundays 
excepted." 

" This is the first opportunity I have had to-day, but 
as we draw a half candle now — last night being the first 
since we left Pleasant Valley — I can write evenings after 
a fashion. 

" I was highly pleased to receive the stockings, 
nightcap, and bags, all safe and satisfactory. The 
cap is made different from most others, but all the 
warmer, they being more like a cap without a visor, a 
band about an inch wide, with full crown, and a knot or 
tassel in the centre. Some of them are quite fanciful. 

"Send in my box a pound of saleratus, or something 
of the kind, for making cakes with water, with directions 
for use — and anything else you choose. Have the box 
stout and well nailed, for they receive rough usage from 
Washington here. Few bottles come through safe. 
One thing more, is a pound of pure leaf tobacco. It 
m.ay surprise you, but I have used it all the time. The 
surgeon recommended it as a preventive of disease in 
this climate, and on observation I am confident that it is 
the case. It costs here from one to two dollars per 
pound, according to the quality." 

"Dec. 2. — The New Hampshire Second arrived here 
a few days ago. We were glad to see them you may 
imagine." 

" Dec. 3. — The president's message is the great 
theme of conversation thro' the army. I think no one 
uninspired can now presume to interpret the signs of 
the times or tell us what the future of our Republic 
may be." 

" There 'are no preparations making for winter quar- 



220 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [December, 

ters yet. Many are getting sick from exposure, while 
others are getting as fat as fools on hard-tack and pork. 
We get but a pound of bread a day. I can eat the 
whole any time at one meal, but I weigh 174 pounds, 
and what I get fat on I can't see, unless it is on faith 
that I am going home next spring. 

"You can't imagine howl should like to see you; 
and wouldn't we walk down to Mrs. C's and get some 
apples? I have not tasted one for many a long day, 
and do not expect to for many another." 

"This evening serenaded General Sturgis. Had a 
splendid treat of apples and tobacco." 

"Dec. 4. — Started as soon as light this morning with 
Bugbee to get some Indian meal. Went to a mill about 
two miles distant, where we obtained each a haversack 
full, which will furnish us with many a dainty ' mess.'" 

"Dec. 5. — On duty as 'police,' and had a nice time 
lugging wood and water for the cooks." 

"Things are generally upside down today, and we 
may as well laugh as cry at circumstances. Indeed I 
do n't know which alternative our mothers would take if 
they were to look in upon us this p. m., for they would 
imagine us very uncomfortable in the first place ; and 
when they saw us using our Yankee ingenuity to better 
our condition, I am sure they would laugh and say, ' I'll 
risk you for a while.' Here I am, just commencing this 
letter. Do you ask where? Why, in my little fly-tent 
with three companions, the size of our domicile allowing 
us but two postures, — lying and sitting, — the latter only 
when we take up with very humble seats. Accordingly, 
I am seated on my knapsack, clad in overcoat, gloves, 
and hat, and thus able to keep quite comfortable, except 
my feet are a little cold just now. The snow and sleet 



1 862.] FREDERICKSB URG. 221 

are pattering down upon our tent, and occasionally drops 
of water and snowflakes introduce themselves through 
the thin cloth or some convenient aperture, for our house 
is well ventilated. I shall not attempt to draw the 
picture outside the tent, for I can give you no correct 
idea of Virginia mud on and about a camp-ground 
during a storm like the present. But with pleasant tent- 
mates, when in good health, I can pass even such a day 
with considerable pleasure. This afternoon I read one 
of Beecher's sermons aloud. About the time I finished 
a mail was announced, and out we rushed, thinking 
nothing of mud or snow till we had seen the last letter 
delivered. I received two, one of which covered only 
a half sheet, and I am using the other half in writing 
this letter. We shall wrap up in our blankets about 
dark, and lie as warm as pigs till daylight." 

" Dec. 6. — Cold and frozen, thawing but very little in 
the sun. No drills, but hard work to keep warm." 

"Dec. 7. — We got a ration of potatoes yesterday, the 
first we have tasted for more than a month. We get rice 
or beans almost every day, so we get along very well 
with eight hard crackers a day." 

"We had snow day before yesterday, and it is cold 
here now. The snow is some three inches deep. We 
have little shelter tents with no fire, and have to keep 
warm the best we can. We earnestly hope there will be 
a settlement of this thing on the president's recommenda- 
tion. Fighting is getting unpopular, especially among 
the private soldiers." 

"Would be called a cold day, even in New England. 
Between the smoke and cold my eyes are nearly out. 

. The only way I can stand it is to crawl in my tent, 
draw on overcoat and gloves, and wrap up in our 
blankets." 



22 2 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [December, 

"Dec. 8. — A little warmer. Orders to 'fix up' our 
tents as comfortably as possible, and excusing us from 
dutv for two days for this purpose." 

"This evening serenaded at head-quarters. Colonel 
Fellows having resigned on account of ill health, Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel Titus is promoted to be colonel, Captain 
Babbitt to be lieutenant-colonel, Lieutenants Hough, 
Hutchinson, Smith, and others to be captains, Second 
Lieutenant Copp to be first lieutenant, and others." 

" Could not get tools yesterday to work with in remod- 
elling our dwelling, but went at it early this morning. 

Cut and lugged on our backs logs enough to stock- 
ade our ' cabin' one and a half feet or so from the 
ground, then dug down a few inches, using the dirt to 
bank up with. Over this stretched four out of our five 
(there being one to each man) pieces of tent-cloth. 
Built a fire-place with chimney in farther end, with sticks 
of wood for bricks and mud for mortar. Fastened up the 
other end with our remaining piece of tent-cloth, which 
answered also for the door, and spread three or four 
inches of pine boughs on the 'floor,' which completed 
our improvements. Building a fire in our ' chimney,' as 
\ve termed it, and finding that it worked splendidly, we 
turned in, as proud and merry as a New York merchant 
would be with a new brownstone front. Before we had 
finished, however, orders were received to be in readi- 
ness to move on short notice, with three days' rations in 
haversacks." 

" Dec. lO. — Pork and hard-tack will fat a soldier if he 
only gets enough of it. I weigh i8o pounds. 

"Our regiment was on picket Monday on the banks 
of the river. The rebs were on the other side, in plain 
sight and speaking distance, but during the whole 



1 862.] FREDERICKSBURG. 2 2 



>5 



twenty-four hours neither side spoke a word to the 

other." 

"Expecting an engagement to-morrow. The band 

was ordered to Division Surgeon Cutter's head-quarters, 
to receive instructions. This is the first engagement 
since we were brigaded. Now our duties are different. 
The Second Brigade band was also there. In the even- 
ing serenaded Colonel Stevens and Lieutenant-Colonel 
Bowers of the Thirteenth New Hampshire, they both 
being residents of Nashua." 

"Dec. II. — We reported to Dr. Cutter, accompanied 
by members of the Second Brigade band, and were 
ordered to the rear of Stafford Heights. Began to erect 
hospital tents, working at this all day and remaining 
here through the night." 

"The battle has opened in terrible earnest. At 6 a. m. 
I was awakened by the discharge of two heavy cannon, 
and in less than five minutes there was a deafening roar 
of artillery on all sides. 

" Noon. — I never had any idea of a terrific cannonade 
before. There has hardly been a moment's cessation 
since the first gun was fired this morning, and much of 
the time it would seem as if the very elements were con- 
vulsed in the fierce struggle. 

"Artillery and ammunition trains were rumbling over 
the roads during the whole of last night, and the infantry 
which has passed this morning seems almost without 
number. . . . If we succeed in crossing, there must 
be a bloody battle ; if the enemy should retreat, a hard 
campaign is before us. At 2 p. m., marched back to 
camp and made coffee ; 4 p. m., moved toward the river 
again ; dark, returned to camp and arranged for a com- 
fortable night. The smoke from the batteries and from 



224 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [December, 

the burning buildings set on fire in the cit}'^ by the shell 
from our cannon, deepened twilight into darkness, save 
where the ruthless flames are still doincj their work of 
destruction amidst the once quiet homes of Fredericks- 
burg." 

" Dec. 12. — First rations of whiskey issued. 
Went down and helped deal out rations." 

" Soon after sunrise we were again in motion. 
Marched this time directly to the river, crossed, and 
took position in the first street parallel with the river and 
a little south of the bridge. Remained here till nearl}'' 
night, when w^e moved farther south, to the vicinity of 
the ruins of the railroad bridge, where, stacking arms 
and eating our supper of hard-tack and pork, we were 
told to make the sidewalks our bed, and sleep if possible." 

" The city presents a spectacle such as I never saw 
before, nor do I wish to see again. Houses have been 
perforated through and through with solid shot, and torn 
in pieces by bursting shell, while the streets are strewed 
with furniture of all descriptions. Articles of clothing, 
toys, crockery, and cooking utensils, books, papers, 
manuscripts, cans, boxes, etc., which the soldiers use 
for comfort or amusement as best suits their inclination. 
Some are searching for valuables, some for eatables, and 
more for tobacco than for both, and these latter are most 
successful. 

"At night the city is literally filled with Union sol- 
diers. Fires were all extinguished at dark, and we 
bivouacked in the muddy streets. I procured a couple 
of doors, one of which I used for a bed and the other I 
arranged to break off" the wind, and thus with one of my 
tent-mates slept soundly and sweetly. 

"The streets at this time present a most grotesque 



1862.] FREDERICKSBURG. 225 

appearance. The sidewalks and gutters are every- 
where lined with mattresses, lounges, chairs, etc., 
which the soldiers, bringing out for temporary use, had 
not been careful to return. Underfoot, books and every 
kind of lighter household furniture were thickly strown. 
Flour had been found in large quantities, and on every 
hand, with their batter in pitchers, bowls, and all kinds 
of dishes, the boys were busy cooking fritters." 

"We were cutting pine and cedar twigs for beds for 
the wounded, but few are brought in as yet." 

" Dec. 13. — At an early hour Dr. Cutter called for 
fourteen men, seven from each band, to go with him to 
the city to establish hospitals there. Arrived at day- 
light, and began at once to clear some residences of 
everything movable, and in a short time had four ready 
for occupancy. We were then ordered to clear the Bap- 
tist church. While this was being done the armies had 
met, and the wounded were being rapidly brought in. 
In fact, quicker than we had cleared the houses they 
were filled. Then in the ante-rooms of the church the 
surgeons began to cut and slash. . . . During the 
day and night the ambulances were carrying back the 
wounded, some without being attended to, on the south 
side, and all who possibly could were ordered to walk." 

" Heavy cannonading commenced at 9 a. m., at 
which we are ordered to ' fall in.' At 10 a. m. we 
marched a half mile through what was formerly an ele- 
gant street, but mansions and huts alike reveal the 
effects of our batteries upon the town. 

"II a. m. — Are now halting by the river-side, and 
some of our batteries have opened a brisk fire. A large 
balloon has just ascended from the other side, which is a 
novel sight for many of us. A company of bridge- 

XV 



226 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [December, 

builders have commenced to rebuild the railroad bridge, 
working under cover of our batteries. 

"Noon. — Batteries are now hotly engaged on both 
sides of the river. The infantry is now becoming 
engaged in rear of the town. Now we can hear the 
thunder of batteries, the whizzing of shot, the hurtling of 
shell, their explosion in air, the rattle and crash of mus- 
ketry, and the hissing and humming of stray bullets 
which pop over our heads. No doubt we shall soon be 
engaged. Our captain is back in camp sick. Lieuten- 
ant Hutchinson commands the company, and Lieutenant 
Little is the only other officer. 

" 2 p. m. — The brigade next to us is now moving to 
the front. 

" 2 :20. — We have advanced near the front, at the left 
ot the city, and are now lying under the brow of a small 
ridge. The musketry firing is terrific only a few rods in 
front of us. Orders to ' Forward.' 

" I can never describe, nor can I ever forget, the 
scenes of that afternoon, after the fall of Lieutenant 
Lewis. The plain known as the ' slaughter-pen,' thickly 
strewed with dead and dying, the bursting of shell in our 
very midst, cannon balls tearing up the earth around us, 
the air filled with the hissing and screeching of the un- 
seen missiles of death, bullets striking the ground all 
around us and throwing up mud and gravel in our faces, 
the shouts of officers, the yells of the wounded, the gaps 
made in our ranks at every step, and that, too, when 
rushing at the top of our speed, the frightful looking 
corpses which strewed the ground still reeking with 
]3lQod — all was hideous, frightful, hellish — I was sufier- 
ing from a severe cold and shortness of breath, and when 
about two thirds of the distance across the plain stumbled 



i862.] FREDERICKSBURG. 227 

and fell, and attempting to rise seemed completely 
exhausted. Dead and dying lay thick around me, and 
the missiles of death spared not even these. 

"I hastily freed myself from all luggage except my 
arms, ammunition, haversack, and canteen. I then 
sprang to my feet and pushed on to the front. Here, 
being partially protected by the embankment, I fired my 
fifty rounds of cartridges to the best of my ability — and 
most of my comrades did the same. 

" Darkness now drew on, and when we ceased firing 
we were covered with mud, our faces blackened with 
powder, our bodies freely perspiring under the activity 
and excitement of the scene, and our whole selves weary 
with the day's scenes and labors. 

" Soon after dusk our regiment was ordered to fall 
back to the city. Stepped into several slough-holes on 
my way back, filling both boots with mud and water. 

" Arrived at the city, and after a sad roll-call, in which 
neither of my three tent-mates answered to their names, 
were ordered to rest as comfortably as possible, but in 
no case to light a fire. I turned in with George, Tracy, 
Burnham, and some others, and after returning thanks 
to God for our preservation, we lay down close beside an 
old slave-pen, and covering ourselves with our blankets 
were soon asleep. 

" But scarcely had we forgotten the horrors of w^ar 
and begun to dream of home, when in husky tones we 
heard the order, ' Ninth New Hampshire, fall in ! ' 
which we did as quietly as possible, took a fresh supply 
of ammunition, and again started for the front. Arriv- 
ing on the field something after midnight, we were sta- 
tioned as a reserve picket force near the old brick-kilns. 
A heavy, chilling fog settled down upon the plain, and 
we suffered much from the cold." 



228 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [December, 

" The ' rebs,' meanwhile, were more prodigal of their 
shells than they had been the day before. . . . One 
of them exploded in the midst of a band who, across the 
river near the Lacy House, were playing ' Hail, Colum- 
bia ! ' The cessation of the music in the midst of the 
most inspiring strain was as sudden as the explosion had 
been, and the musicians w^ent skedaddling to a place 
of safety in quicker time than they had ever played 
' Yankee Doodle ! '" 

[Apropos of the above statement is the following new^s- 
paper correspondence, showing why the music was cut 
short at Fredericksburg :] 

To the JEditor National Tribune: 

Let me say a word about that music at the crossing 
of the Rappahannock, alluded to by General How^ard in 
his article on Fredericksburg. After my brigade (First 
brigade, Second division. Ninth corps) had crossed the 
river, it lay in line on the first street parallel with 
the river — the right of m}' regiment (the Ninth New 
Hampshire) being opposite the end of the bridge, above 
the railroad bridge. While we were lying there the 
Twelfth New Hampshire (a new regiment) came march- 
ing across the plain west of the Lacy House, with their 
band at the head of the column. When they came to 
the descent leading dow^n to the pontoons, instead of 
taking advantage of a ravine, which would have covered 
them, they started down the open slope in plain view of 
the Johnnies' batteries. When the band came to the 
crest of the descent, they could look across the river and 
see the thousands of troops that had preceded them, and 
they struck up " Bully for You, Bully for You." At 
this, old Gen. Sam Sturgis, commanding the division. 





Sergt. Wm. H. Hartwell, Co. I. Q. M. Sergt. Charles E. Rugg. 





Sergt. Wm. H. Hartwell, Co. I. Edward M. Messenger, Co. I. 



1862.] FREDERICKSBURG. 229 

who was sitting on a door-step in front of my regiment, 

said: "Who in commands that brigade? He'll 

get the eternal stuffing knocked out of him in two 

minutes." He had hardly got the words out when 

"quit, quit," came a couple of shells over our heads, 

and I tell you what, Mr. Editor, they cut that "Bully 

for You " mighty short. 

Wm. H. Hart well, 

Sergeant, Co. /, gth N. H. J^ols. 
Kirkwood, 111. 

" By the time I had fired my sixty-four rounds it was 
nearly dark, my gun was so foul I could scarcely force 
a bullet home, and taking a plump-looking haversack 
that lay just in front of me, I crawled back a few steps, 
where I should be more out of the way of stray balls- 
Opening the haversack, I found a box of butter and 
a plentiful supply of pork and hard bread, and soon 
put myself outside of nearly an ordinary day's rations, 
rendezvoused near where we passed the previ- 
ous night. Our ranks were much thinned, but as there 
were of course many stragglers, we could not ascertain 
anything definite in regard to our loss. A large number 
of us had taken possession of a heavy brick building 
formerly used as a slave-pen, intending to make it our 
quarters for the night. Several of us had reached the 
third story, and were spreading our blankets, when — 
crash came a shell against the wall ! The explosion 
nearly stunned us, and sent the bricks whizzing most 
unpleasantly about our ears." 

" Dec. 14. — The wounded of yesterday are being 
brought in, and we are kept busy in the hospitals." 

"Remained in the vicinity of the brick-kilns all day. 
The plain is strewed with corpses, and all the debris 



230 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [December, 

ever to be found upon a modern battle-field. From the 
numerous knapsacks lying about we have supplied our- 
selves with blankets in place of those lost yesterday, 
and many other comforts. I exchanged my boots, 
burst open at the sides and worn through on the bot- 
toms, for a good pair of shoes from feet that have no 
further use for them. Also took from a knapsack a 
good pair of socks, of which I was greatly in need, and 
a pair of new woollen drawers. 

" No firing to-day, except occasional skirmishes along 
the picket line. Moved back into the city at dark, and 
for the third time lay down to sleep in the streets of 
Fredericksburg. The city is full of wounded, and every 
house is a hospital, and few but might be called ' dead 
houses.' 

" Soon after midnight we were called out, furnished 
with a fresh supply of ammunition, and sent as a reserve 
picket to the outskirts of the city, south of the railroad. 
Here, in what had been a flower-bed, curled up on my 
blanket-roll and haversack, I was soon asleep again, 
and did not wake till morning. This morning a detail 
was called for to fill up the color guard, and I volun- 
teered to go. Will now be with my chum Tracy all the 
time."' 

"Dec. 15. — Was this morning stationed on guard at 
the church. While here I received letters from home, 
also a pair of boots, which I very much needed. Re- 
mained on guard all day. As soon as darkness came 
we were told to take our effects and report to the 
division hospital on the north side. . . . We had 
a good night's rest, which is the first since we went to 
the city, either assisting at the amputating-table or on 
guard for the past sixty hours." 



1862.] FREDERICKSBURG. 23 1 

" Had a chance to cook a warm breakfast, clean 
our guns, collect stragglers, etc., this morning. Also 
counted up our loss, as nearly as it could be ascertained. 
Foots up eight or ten killed and ninety wounded, 
with quite a number still missing. In Company E five 
are missing and eight are wounded, among them Barber, 
whose left arm, crushed by a piece of shell, has been 
disjointed at the shoulder. 

"Witnessed to-day some of the horrors of war in a 
new form, or rather in a new degree. About sunrise 
commenced moving the wounded to the Falmouth side. 
Oh, my God, spare me the pain of such another sight! 
For eight long hours the streets were crowded with the 
mutilated victims of Saturday's fighting. Those who 
have the use of their limbs are hobbling along as best 
they can, many on crutches of their own manufacture, 
hastily improvised from fence-boards, or anything that 
would serve their purpose, many leaning for support on 
those but slightly wounded, and thousands are being 
borne along on stretchers and in ambulances. The 
heart sickens at such a sight of suffering. . . . And 
yet, from all these bleeding, suffering thousands I have 
not heard a groan or complaint. Hundreds are left 
dead about the hospitals. . . . Not only are our 
wounded crossing the riv^er, but ammunition and stores 
are recrossing, so that it looks like an evacuation. 

" Very little fighting during the day. Soon after dark 
we were supplied with extra ammunition, and with the 
rest of our brigade moved out of the city toward the 
front. Even the rattling of a tin cup was forbidden. 
At the front we were variously disposed of. Company 
E and two or three other companies were taken into the 
second story of an old brick building, — very large, but 
which seemed to have only one apartment above — placed 



232 NINTH NE W HA MPS HIRE. [December, 

around the room next the wall, and ordered to dig loop- 
holes thro' the brick walls with bayonets as quietly as 
possible. We were not permitted to speak aloud, and 
were forbidden on pain of death to look out of a window 
when it should become light. The object of this per- 
formance I am at a loss to divine, but if the enemy had 
advanced upon us suddenly we must all have been cap- 
tured ; or, if they had tired a single shell into the old 
building, it might have torn it to shatters and buried us in 
its ruins. About midnight we were ordered out of the 
building, and we freely obeyed, tho' as stealthily as we 
had entered it. We moved on towards the city, but on 
entering it, instead of finding the streets crowded with 
troops as we had left them, there was not a soldier to be 
seen outside our ranks, and an ominous silence, broken 
only by our stealthy footfalls, pervaded the whole city. 
Passing along the main streets, we at length filed down to 
the river, and there were no longer any doubts as to the 
movement — we were retreating across the Rappahannock. 

"As we stepped upon the pontoon bridge every heart 
beat with mingled sensations of joy and grief. Joy, that 
another great battle was ended and we were able to 
write to our friends 'we are safe.' But this feeling was 
far outweighed by the thought that our great army was 
again defeated, and by the remembrance of the noble 
comrades we had left unburied behind, and the anguish 
which would accompany the news of their death to thous- 
ands of homes. Our regiment had entered Fredericks- 
burg with about 600 men, and we were returning with 
about 350. 

"We returned to our old camp-ground, and being 
weary and sleepy we lay down, very many of us without 
pitching our tents, and with a few sighs for our dead and 
wounded comrades, we fell asleep." 



CHAPTER VII. 
Closing Up the Year. 

The year 1862 was drawing to a close. The Ninth 
New Hampshire had seen nearly four months of active 
service, and during that time had participated in three 
battles. It had been a stern experience for lads scarce 
starting in life for themselves, — one that would leave its 
impress on all their future. But there were brave hearts 
left, in spite of disaster, defeat, and hardship. There 
had been much to discourage and dishearten, yet they 
had shown themselves true men, and in the face of their 
sadly diminished numbers still looked into the future 
with the utmost intrepidity. Surely there would be a 
reward for all this terrible suffering, and the right must 
prevail. 

In the absence of Colonel Titus, Lieutenant-Colonel 
Babbitt had led the regiment at Fredericksburg, and he 
thus reported the specific action of the Ninth New 
Hampshire to Brigadier-General Nagle : 

"I have the honor to forward herewith a list of the 
loss of this regiment in the engagement of Saturday last, 
near this city, which is as correct as can be made at this 
time. Some of those reported as missing are expected 
to soon ioin the command, while it is feared that others of 
that number will prove to have been killed. 

"The regiment was ordered to advance about two 
o'clock from the bank of the river, each company mov- 



234 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [December, 

ing in column through the streets until arriving outside 
the city near the scene of action, where it formed in line 
of battle and awaited orders. It was then ordered to 
move by the right flank forming line upon the railroad 
track, and was thus ordered to advance. After passing 
the railroad, while in a deep cut, the regiment received 
a galling, enfilading fire from the enemy's artillery, 
which was continued with great eflfect after passing 
beyond. Notwithstanding this repulse, the men, though 
in considerable confusion, pushed forward and took a 
good position, where they remained until dark. Most of 
the companies having then exhausted their ammunition, 
they withdrew in good order, following the Forty-eighth 
Pennsylvania volunteers. 

"The conduct of officers and men, considering the 
difficulty and extreme danger of the first advance, was 
most commendable. Sergeant Dinsmore, bearer of the 
National colors, fell early in the action, mortally wound- 
ed, and the colors were brought safely through by Sec- 
ond Lieutenant Copp of Company C. I regret to report 
the instant death of First Lieutenant John G. Lewis of 
Company H, an efficient and gallant officer, who was 
killed soon after passing the cut near the railroad. 
Captain John B. Cooper of Company K, having been 
absent for months past on account of wounds received 
at the Battle of Antietam, joined his command only an 
hour before the order to advance, and did good service. 
Other officers were slightly wounded, most of whom will 
soon be able to resume their commands." 

The official list of the killed, wounded, and missing, 
between the dates of December ii and December i6, 
follows : 




Lieut. Col. John W. Babbitt. 



1862.] CLOSING UP THE YEAR. 235 

Four were killed outright: Private G. W.Wright of 
Company C, Sergeant E. W. Dinsmore and Private 
W. S. Chapman of Company F, and First Lieutenant 
John G. Lewis of Company H. 

The wounded numbered sixty-eight : 

Company A.-First Sergeant L. H. Caldwell, 
Sergeants J. G. Merrill and Morrison Alexander, 
Privates B. D. James, W. McGarrett, J. L. Archer, 

F. Lovejoy. ^ , , 

Company B.-First Sergeant W. H. Edmunds, 
Privates J. Harrington, J. Carroll, W. Griffin, A. P. 

Horne. . .. , 

Company C.-Captain A. S. Edgerly, Corporals John 

Robinson and J. S. Bean, Privates J. S. Chase 

O. Hutchinson, C. J. Ranlet, S. Tibbetts, J. W. 

Williams. . 

Company D.— Privates G. B. Brown, P. Potter, C. A. 

Hall, A. Eastman, E. Bunce, Peter Menard. 

Company E.-Privates J. S. Rowell, F. Howe, A J. 
Davis, H. C. Bugbee, A. Griffith, D. Hadley, G. W. 
Barber, B. F. Pettingill. 

Company F.-Lieutenant L. B. Little, Privates 

N. W. Wier, H. A. Clement. 

Company G.-Lieutenant Charles A. Harnden, 
Privates J. F. Wilkins, C. W. Wheeler. 

Company H.-Sergeant J. B. Tumbly, Corporals A. 
Little, C. H. Watts, Privates J. G. Clogston, J. Avery, 
C. H. Wentworth, M. F. Gray, F. Dexter, J. Scott, L. 
Beard, H. Martin, W. C. Eastman, J. Buffum, J. H. 
Howard, N. Whitcomb, M. Hester. 

Company L-Privates A. A. Wymer, M. R. Elhs. 

Company K.-Corporals E. R. Emerson, E. R. Mil- 
ler, A. Brown, Privates G. F. Blood, G. A. Chase, O. 



236 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [December, 

L. Cummings, G. N. Loving, A. Patmorn, C. Sanborn, 

S. F. Lane. 

Twelve were reported as missing : 

Company B. — Sergeant W. Pettingill, Private D. 

Kean (wounded, and died December 29), Privates W. 

McClary, H. J. Page, W. L. Skiilings. 

Company C. — Privates J. Bradford, Thomas F. 

Gile, Jr. 

Company D. — Private Orrin S. Abbott- 
Company E.— Privates R. W. Clark, F. W. Rand, 

A. C. Stephens, E. O. Sheppard. 

The following spirited account of the part borne by 
Company H, whose gallant first lieutenant was killed 
outright, and whose w^ounded numbered three officers 
and thirteen privates, finds appropriate place here : 

COMPANY H AT FREDERICKSBURG. 
By Capt. Charles W. Ed^erly. 

I saw, and Company H saw, as much of the Battle of 
Fredericksburg, and a little more, than any other com- 
pany in the regiment. 

Colonel Babbitt will probably remember, and Adju- 
tant Chandler certainly would, that Company H was 
detailed the day before the battle (and I was the only 
commissioned officer at the time) to report to Lieutenant- 
Colonel Gillespie, at the Lacy House, for fatigue duty 
for twenty-four hours. I reported to him at 9 a. m., and 
we awaited orders from him till 10 p. m., when the pon- 
toon train arrived, and we marched some three miles 
below the city to a place called Deep Run, where we 
were furnished with picks, shovels, and axes, and then 



i862.] CLOSING UP THE YEAR. 237 

we went to work in good earnest to build a road over the 
steep bank to the river. 

Every man worked with a will, and as quietly as 
possible. A Massachusetts regiment was in our front, 
to protect us, and the pontoon men, who were laying the 
boats; and Raymond's battery on the river-bank, at the 
very spot where we began to grade the road on the hill- 
side, was in readiness in case of an attack by the John- 
nies. All went well ; we had our road completed, and 
were moving about to keep warm and kill time till day- 
light, when at four o'clock in the morning we were dis- 
covered by the enemy. 

A blue rocket went up from the rebel camp in our 
front, followed immediately by a red one, and then we 
heard the long roll beat, and in less than five minutes we 
saw a rebel regiment coming down the road leading to 
the pontoon bridge, which by that time was nearly com- 
pleted. 

Our boys were standing just a little to the left and rear 
of Raymond's battery when they discharged the first 
piece at the advancing rebs. This shot was followed by 
several others from the same battery, and in less than 
thirty minutes afterwards our batteries were all at work. 
So that the first piece of artillery to open fire on the 
Union side in that great battle was in position to cover 
the men who were laying the pontoon bridge and Com- 
pany H of the Ninth New Hampshire volunteers. 

When we returned to camp the whole Ninth corps was 
out on the plain in front of the Lacy House, where I 
reported to Colonel Babbitt, and then went to camp for 
rations and arms and rejoined the regiment as soon as 
possible. The regiment returned to camp that night, 
and the next morning crossed the pontoons into the city. 



238 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [December, 

Company H was therefore in at the beginning as well as 
the ending of the Battle of Fredericksburg. 



GLINTS FROM THE FIELD. 

Fredericksburg, Dec. 13, 1862. 

[Lines found in the knapsack of Charles H. Duncan, Company E, 
after his death at Camp Burnside, Ky.] 

At early morn, that awful day, 

The mist along the river lay. 

And, wrapt in dense and massive cloud. 

Lay Union hearts and rebels proud; 

Too soon in deadly strife arrayed, 

Too soon by slaughter lowly laid. 

For, ere the yonder rising sun 

Again his daily race has run. 

The cannon's deep and horrid roar 

Shall sound from either quaking shore. 

The million deadly bullets fly. 

And shrieking shells shall plough the sky. 

"Ye lowering mists, still longer stay; 
Ye winds, still longer cease to play, — 
Nor lift the frail and cloudy screen. 
And open to the world the scene 
Of blood and horror, pain and death, 
To still the blood and stop the breath ! " 

Thus weeping Mercy loudly calls 
Through Fred'rick's torn and trampled halls. 
But Justice stands, with sterner mien. 
Bearing the sword most bright and keen : 
" The cause is just, is glorious. 
Shall be, at last, victorious. 



1862.] CLOSING UP THE YEAR. 239 

"Who dies in freedom's holy cause — 
Dies to protect her trampled laws, 
Throws not his sacred life away — 
His name shall live in future day ; 
What though, unknown, he lowly rest, 
His dust is precious, mem'ry blest.'" 

But see, the strong and mighty sun 
The airy field hath fairly won ; 
The broken mists now lowly fly, 
Or on the hill-tops softly lie ; 
And now, like man's immortal soul. 
They calmly, swiftly, upward roll. 

Oh, would that ev'ry martyr soul 
Might thus attain a heavenly goal ; 
For God, as for his country, die, 
And dwell eternally on high ! 
' Then should our grief with faith arise. 

As when the Christian patriot dies. 



The survivors of the Battle of Fredericksburg will 
never cease to wonder how they ever came through such 
a storm of lead and iron. The streets of the city were a 
mass of wreckage, and the houses were riddled with shot 
and shell, no less than thirty-eight gaping apertures 
being counted in one small building. Evidently the in- 
habitants were compelled to leave at short notice, for in 
many instances tables were standing spread, with the 
food half consumed upon the plates. 



Under the supervision of the brigade surgeon. Dr. 
Cutter, the members of the band were doing a noble 
work. During the engagement they were literally with- 
out rest or sleep, and though as many of the wounded as 



240 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [December, 

possible were sent to Washington, still so many were left 
that the members of the two bands were divided into two 
squads for night and day service. Their principal duties 
were the preparation of tea, coffee, beef tea, and soup 
and vegetables for the sick, and to assist the surgeon in 
the dressing of wounds. 



Talk of comforts for the sick ! A visit to the hos- 
pital tents on the morning of the i6th of December would 
have revealed very little in that line of commodities. A 
heavy rain had fallen the night before, and the blazing 
fires in front of the tents was the only cheerful feature of 
the scene. Here and there between the tents could be 
seen the bodies of those who had died during the night, 
each with a bit of cloth over the face and a piece of 
paper bearing their name and company pinned on the 
breast. Deatii in any form is ghastly, but who could 
repress a shudder of horror at the sight of those poor 
maimed bodies, as they lay there in the slowly dripping 
rain, awaiting burial ! Inside the tents the ground was 
covered with straw, or pine and cedar boughs, and on 
these rude couches, wrapped in their blankets, lay men 
wounded in every conceivable manner, yet cheerful, 
despite their dismal surroundings. Nor was this the 
worst, for many of the wounded had lain all night in the 
drenching rain, without even a blanket, for lack of ac- 
commodations. 

Private George W. Barber of Company E was among 
the severely wounded, and was discharged for disability 
three months later. As the regiment was hurrying over 
the plain known as the " slaughter-pen," a large piece 
of shell struck his left arm near the shoulder, shattering 



i862.] CLOSING UP THE YEAR. 24 1 

the bone and lacerating the flesh. Bullets and shells 
were claiming victims all around him, but he coolly 
undid the rope that bound his blanket, then wound it 
tightly around his arm, to stanch the bleeding, and 
started back towards the city. On the way he became 
faint from pain and loss of blood, and was put on a 
stretcher and taken to the Baptist church, which had 
been utilized as an amputating-room. Here his arm 
was taken off at the shoulder joint, but his life was de- 
spaired of. The next moi-ning found him still aHve, 
however, and he was placed in an ambulance, carried 
across the river, and put in a tent. He lay there for 
thirty-six hours without the slightest attention, and with 
nothing to eat or drink except a Httle water ; but there 
was good stuff in the fellow, and he finally pulled 
through all right. 

Sergeant Robinson says, — 

"All of my three tent-mates (including Barber) were 
missing on the morning of the i6th. I started for the 
Second Division hospital to search for them. After a 
long hunt, during which I lifted the cloth from many a 
dead man's face, I found Barber. He gave me some 
trinkets from his pockets, including his diary, to send to 
his friends, and said, ' Whatever comes of this, tell them 
IJiave no regrets for the course I have taken.' Some 
three months later, while I was sick in the hospital in 
Washington, Barber walked into my ward one day on 
his way home, going back to school and college. I 
gave him back the trinkets, including some bullets that 
he picked up when he was hit, and his diary." 

XVI 



242 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [December, 

The 17th of December was very cold, and a light 
snow had fallen on the field, hiding from view the un- 
buried bodies of the slain, who lay where they had fallen 
in the field beyond the town. That day, however, a 
detachment of men was sent across the river under a 
flag of truce, and the dead were decently interred. 

Captain Edgerly contributes the following peculiar 
incident : 

" There was a man in Company D by the name of 
Potter, and he was the only man in our regiment, to my 
knowledge, that had the moral courage to pray audibly 
every night before retiring to rest, and while we were 
encamped near Falmouth, Va., his tent was near mine, 
and I heard him pray often, and I respected him for his 
moral courage, and became quite well acquainted with 
him. At the Battle of Fredericksburg, while we were 
in front of Marye's heights and the rebel rifle-pits, our 
regiment was badly mixed up with others, and the cas- 
ualties of battle were very numerous. Mixed in with 
my own company I saw Potter, and blood was stream- 
ing from his mouth. I spoke to him and asked him if 
he was badly wounded, but he only shook his head, so I 
found he could not talk. The next morninfj I went into 
a house to see some of our wounded men, and Dr. Gib- 
son was in charge ; among others I saw Potter and 
spoke to him, but he again shook his head. I asked 
Dr. Gibson in regard to his wound, and he told me that a 
ball had passed through his mouth parallel with the lips, 
taking out some of his teeth, and passing under the 
tongue had cut it nearly half otT. I have never seen 
him since, but I have thought of him many times, and 
how strange it was that our only audibly praying man 
should have his tongue severed by a rebel bullet ; but 



i862.] CLOSIIVG UP THE YEAR. 243 

at the same time I think he was a good man. I believe 
he is still living at Conway, N. H." 



With a total loss on the Union side of 1,284 killed and 
9,600 wounded, it is not strange that in caring for the 
living the dead, who could suffer no more, were neg- 
lected. In his official report General McLaws accounts 
in a measure for the heavy loss on the Federal side. 
He says, — "The body of one man, believed to be an 
officer, was found within about thirty yards of the stone 
wall, and other single bodies were scattered at increased 
distances, until the main mass of the dead lay thickly 
strewn over the ground at something over one hundred 
yards off', and extending to the ravine, commencing at 
the point where our men would allow the enemy's col- 
umn to approach before opening fire, and beyond which 
no organized body of men was able to pass." 



Sergeant Hiram W. French, of Company D, writes, — 
" Those who were with us when we were hurled against 
that fatal stone wall will remember that we crossed a 
deep ditch, or railroad cut, just before. The enemy 
was shelling us from Marye's heights, and I recall with 
what a feeling of relief I plunged, slid, and tumbled 
down into that cut, believing that for the time we would 
be safe from the enemy's fire. But alas ! no sooner had 
I reached the bottoni than I chanced to glance off" to our 
left, in the direction the cut ran, and saw a puff" of white 
smoke, then another, — and bang ! bang ! came two shells 
up the cut. I looked back, and saw some of the offi- 
cers who had not yet come down into the cut. At that 
moment Lieutenant Lewis (a big, ffeshy man) fell head- 



244 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [December, 

long and rolled down over the bank into the cut. Then 
I heard Colonel Babbitt, in his clear, ringing tones, 

shout, 'Forward, men, forward! They'll shell h 1 

out of you here ! ' We climbed the opposite bank, and 
met a worse fusillade from the batteries in front, one 
shell exploding right in the faces of the Company E 
men just as we gained the top of the slope." 



In the camp proper, matters were very quiet. There 
was an occasional inspection, but in the main the men 
were left pretty much to themselves. One day a couple 
of them procured a beef's heart and a chunk of tallow 
from the butcher, and going into the woods a little way, 
built a fire, cooked their meat, and managed to divide 
the heart between them in the course of the day. 

The Ninth had its share of the picketing, however, 
and it was no pleasant task to pace up and down the 
bleak shore of the river all the long, dreary night. 
Sometimes fortune smiled on them though. One time 
in particular a cold, north-west wind had been blowing 
"great guns" all day, and late in the afternoon the 
regiment was ordered out. But as good luck would 
have it, when the station was reached it was found to be 
in a deep ravine, and permission to light fires was ob- 
tained ; so that, sheltered from the bitter wind, the boys 
managed to have a pretty jolly time. 



Just before Christmas the regiment was paid ofi' up to 
the first of November, and while the majority of the men 
sent the greater part of their money home, nevertheless 
the sutlers did a thriving business the next few days, and 
the boys fairly revelled in apples and other luxuries. 



i862.] CLOSING UP THE YEAR. 245 

After all, man is largely a creature of circumstances. 
The first shock of horror at the scenes they had so 
recently witnessed passed away, and with the coming 
of pleasanter weather and the paymaster and sutlers 
there was a wonderful lightening of spirits, and the boys 
were as jovial and happy as the proverbial coon on his 
favorite maple ; but by the same force of reasoning, 
under the depressing influence of cold and the lack of 
creature comforts there was a strong suggestion of a 
farmer's cattle caught in an unexpected snow-squall. 

In Chapter VI, under date of December 13, one of 
the diarists mentions the fact that the captain of the 
company was back in the camp sick. The following 
letter, dated December 24, from Captain Alexander to 
his sister, explains the circumstances : 

"We are now occupying the same encampment that 
we have done for the past month, and the same occupied 
by our troops before the battle. I was not in the battle, 
as I had been sick for some two weeks before it took 
place with severe pains in my back and sides — resulting, 
I suppose, from a cold. So severe was it that I was 
unable to walk, or hardly sit up. I am a good deal 
better now, so that I have returned to duty, but am not 
yet free from pain, though I hope soon to be entirely 
well. 

" It was a terrible battle fought here, and a terrible 
reverse to our side. I hope such an one may never 
again befall our army. No chance of success did our 
troops have to gain a victory. The rebels had fortified 
the hills in the rear of the city in such a manner that 
infantry had no chance — before they could get within 
musket range they were subjected to a most galling fire 
of artillery, and when they arrived near enough to fire 



246 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [December, 

they were mowed down by the musket balls of the rebel 
infantry. 

" I do not know whether another attempt will be made 
or not. The rebels are working night and day, throw- 
ing up intrenchments and digging rifle-pits, so they are 
much stronger than before. If they attempt it again, it 
will be a bloody contest. I hope if they have one that 
I shall be well, and able to lead my company, for I 
assure you I never spent such uncomfortable days in 
my life as when my company went away without me, 
and when I lay in my tent and heard the roar of cannon 
and the sharp crack of musketry, and knew that my 
company was there and I not with them. It was the 
first time it had ever gone anywhere and I did not go 
with them. My company were fortunate — I had none 
killed and only four wounded — but the left wing of the 
regiment suffered much. In the morning I was deter- 
mined to go, but the surgeon and colonel told me not to 
attempt it. 

"There is a very probable rumor in camp that the 
Ninth Army corps is going to Alexandria this winter. 
I have understood that Major-General Sedgwick has 
been appointed to the command of the Ninth corps, and 
it is said that the corps he commands is to be sent for 
the defence of Washington, as General Sedgwick has 
been wounded and is not fit for active service. I hope it 
is so, for the regiment has suffered and endured more, I 
think, than any other regiment in the same time. You 
would not know it if you were to see it to-day. Yester- 
day we had a grand review before General Sumner, and 
our regiment only brought out 312 muskets — quite a dif- 
ference from the 960 in Concord. I can't get out more 
than thirty-five men at the most — the rest are dead, 
wounded, sick, or detailed — or deserted." 



i862.] CLOSING UP THE YEAR. 247 

Merry Christmas saw the regiment comfortably estab- 
lished on the camp-ground they had occupied before 
crossing the Rappahannock. Qiiiet and discipline were 
fully restored, and daily drills had been instituted while 
the reorganizing and equipping of the troops went on. 
The weather that day was mild and sunny, and strongly 
reminded one of the beautiful days of the Indian summer 
in the far-off Granite state. Chaplain Gushee conducted 
services in front of General Nagle's head-quarters, and 
then came the Christmas dinner. Beefsteak and potatoes 
were luxuries indeed after a steady diet of pork and hard- 
tack, and were greatly enjoyed. 

The remainder of the month slipped away in the 
monotonous round of duties, the only special incident 
being the promotion of Brigadier-General Nagle to the 
command of the division, and of Colonel Allen of the 
Second Maryland to that of the brigade. The last 
day of the year 1862 closed down on the Ninth New 
Hampshire cold and rainy, but hope still whispered that 
with the dawning of the new year might come brighter 
fortunes. 

BESIDE THE CAMP-FIRE. 

The Ninth had met with its share of adventures during 
the stay at Fredericksburg, and a few brief sketches are 
here inserted in remembrance of bygone days. 

The Chaflahi's Horse. — Up to this time Chaplain 
Gushee had been obliged to ride anything but a desir- 
able beast, but the boys could n't quite stand that, and a 
beautiful cream-colored horse was provided for his use. 
The animal was a great favorite with the chaplain, who 
retained him as long as he himself remained in the army. 



248 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [December, 

A Midnight MarcJi. — One cold, stormy night Compa- 
ny I was ordered on picket duty. The rest of the regi- 
ment chuckled at their good fortune in being under cover, 
but the laugh was on the other side before morning. 
The Second brigade was deep in its beauty sleep when 
the order to "Turn out under arms I" rang through the 
camp, and hastily donning their equipments, the men 
were soon in line. Through mud and snow for two 
long, weary miles they tramped, the order was given to 
return, and they finally turned in again, wet, cold, and 
thoroughly disgusted, heartily echoing the regimental 
poet's inspiration, — 

' ' The toughest march that '^ver was made 

Since the days of old King Pharaoh, 
Was the march that was made by the Second brigade. 

By order of General Ferrero ! " 

yighting in His Sleep. — Another night, when the camp 
lay wrapped in slumber, a gun was discharged right in 
their midst. Of course everybody turned out in a hurry, 
expecting nothing less than a midnight attack, — only to 
find that Sergeant Fletcher, of Company I, had been 
tackling the enemy single-handed in his sleep, and had 
accidentally discharged his gun, the ball passing through 
his foot. 

Fifty fer Cent. — After the regiment was paid off it 
was discovered that some of the men were not indisposed 
to turn an honest penny. Two of them invested their 
joint stock in apples, and after indulging themselves 
proceeded to peddle out the rest at an advance of fifty 
per cent, over the original cost before the boys caught on. 

Sugar in Theirs. Just before going into camp at 
Fredericksburg. SergeantWilcox detailed Foster, Wheel- 
er, and Kemp, of Company I, as a guard over the brigade 



i862.] CLOSING UP THE YEAR. 249 

commissary stores. The rest of the regiment had gone 
along, the boys were left to themselves, and the old adage 
that "When the cat's away the mice will play," was 
exemplified. "Jake" Green was the officer of the guard, 
and after listening in silence to their comments on their 
rations for some time, sympathetic Jake finally burst 
out, — "The orders is for you boys to steal nottings and 
let nobody else steal nottings ; but mein Gott, boys, if you 
drinks your coffee mitout sugar to-morrow, you be 

d d fools ! " They had sugar in theirs for several 

mornings. 

A leaf from a soldier's note-book furnished this : 

"We crossed the Rappahannock river into the city, 
Friday, December 12. Here I saw, at the corner of a 
brick house, an old rebel soldier with the top of his head 
shot oft', leaving a part of the ears and nose. It was cut 
as smooth and as straight as if done with a knife. 

"For the first time since leaving home I had the 
pleasure of sleeping on a feather-bed, one that we boys 
borrowed from a deserted house. We also confiscated a 
barrel of flour to our use, which we speedily converted 
into griddle-cakes, cooking them over a fire which we 
built in the middle of the street. About a half dozen of 
"US were having a good time, frying and eating, when a 
shell burst overhead, and a good-sized piece dropped 
down in the midst of our frying-pans, scattering them — 
as well as the boys — in a hurry. 

"That afternoon we had other cakes to fry, I can tell 
you ; and I shall never forgot the charge over that field 
and through the deep cut where the rebels mowed us 
down like grass, and where I was wounded in the face 
by a piece of shell." 



250 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [December, 

And now a bit of hospital experience from a lad who 
was only sixteen years old at the time of his enlistment, 
and who afterwards received two wounds at Spottsyl- 
vania : 

"After the fight Wheeler, Phillips, and myself were 
detailed to go over with the party who were to bury the 
dead. The trenches were dug six feet wide and three 
feet deep, and in one trench in particular I remember of 
helping put in two hundred and seventy-five men, all of 
them entirely nude, for the rebels were short of clothing 
at that time. 

"We were there burying the dead two days and one 
night. The night we returned to camp, Wheeler, Phil- 
lips, and myself were taken sick with typhoid fever, and 
in a few days were loaded into a freight car and shipped 
to Aquia Creek with the sick and wounded. On arriving 
there, we were put into a tent that would hold twelve 
small cots. We had one man to attend to us, and he had 
to w^alk around with rubber boots on, half way to his 
knees in mud. In a little while Phillips, who laid oppo- 
site to me, on the other side of the tent, died in the fore- 
noon ; and that afternoon Wheeler, who had a cot close 
beside mine, also died. 

"Not long after the order came to remove all the sick 
and wounded of the Ninth Army corps to Washington. 
I was placed on a stretcher, carried to the boat, and laid 
on deck. Before we got to Washington some unprin- 
cipled wretch relieved me of my watch and chain and 
everything else I had in my pockets. On arriving at 
Washington, I was put in an ambulance with another 
comrade, and he died before we reached the hospital. 
You may be sure I was glad enough when I got back 
among well folks." 



,86z.] CLOSING UP THE YEAR. 251 

A day or two after the battle a man of Company E went 
to the hospital to visit Barber. He found eleven men, 
nine of whom had amputated limbs, and some who 
were wounded in two or three places, in a wall tent and 
tended by a single nurse, who was tired out Barber 
asked his comrade to stay all night wUh the boys He 
obtained leave, and was soon installed as "«- f- ''- 
night. It was a new and trying expenence, and he was 
kept busy bathing wounds, administering cordials, and 
waiting in various ways upon the men. It was a c^d 
frostv night, and with one exception the men lay upon the 
ground, with a little straw under them but no covering 
over them. One of the men had a half blanket merely. 
About seven o'clock the surgeon in charge came around 
looked at the wounds, gave orders for the n.ght. counted 
the men, and said,-" Nurse, in an hour come to my quar- 
ters and get ten blankets for these men." As the nurse 
started after them, the man with a half blanket satd,- 
..You get one for me if you can." "I'll see what I 
can do." he replied. At the surgeon's tent, the surgeon 
asked, "How many blankets were you to have, my 
man?" "There are eleven men in my tent, sir, he 
replied. " Steward, count out this man eleven blankets, 
the doctor said. So one for every man was earned 
back, and that nurse's reputation for eficiency was well 

established. . . .j ^ 

Another comrade contributes this incident : 

..While we were crossing the plain back of Fredericks- 
burg, before we reached the railroad,-which I could see 
plainly, being slightly in the rear as ^^-f ^7^^7;'- 
there was one man who was putting in the steps for all 
he was worth. He was a lieutenant, commg, I think, 
from Newport, and was the smallest man in the regi- 



252 NINTH NE W HAMPSHIRE. [December, 

ment. We were going it on the double-quick, and the 
best he could do, he could not quite keep up. All at 
once a shot from a cannon came skipping along the 
ground, so near him that the wind of it sent him head 
over heels for several feet (it seemed to me to be rods), 
before he finally came to a stop. I thought sure he must 
be hurt, but he jumped up, and having gained on the 
regiment by the help of the ball, turned round to his com- 
mand and shouted sharply, ' Close up there ! ' Oh, he 
was a cool one, if he was little." 

From the diary of the lamented Captain Alexander 
comes this graphic picture of a night on the picket : 

"ALONG THE RAPPAHANNOCK." 

We had just got our tent fixed so we could sleep com- 
fortably to-night — having carried boards on my back 
nearly a half mile — when the adjutant came to the tent 
and gave me the unwelcome intelligence that my com- 
pany and Company I were detailed to go on picket 
along the Rappahannock, both companies being under 
my command. So we packed our tents, rolled up our 
blankets, and trudged along through the mud, almost to 
our knees, to the river-bank. 

We were to picket the river above the bridge. Before 
we got our pickets stationed, darkness was upon us. 
The rebel pickets could be plainly seen, sitting beside 
their fires, within musket range. . . . Tired, hun- 
gry, and wet to the skin, — after having travelled over 
the whole distance twice to station the pickets and give 
them instructions, — I seated myself on the wet ground, 
beside a few embers left by the pickets we relieved, to 
pass the weary night. . . . 



1 862.] CLOSING UP THE YEAR. 253 

Thank God, morning has once more dawned upon us, 
though still raining and the wind blowing. I hail the 
break of day with delight, for such a long, cold, rainy, 
wearisome night I never experienced. . . . Once 
during the night I walked the length of the pickets to 
see that all was right, but at no time did sleep visit my 
eyelids. . . . We were not relieved till after dark. 
The regiment had moved during the day some two miles 
back from the river, so for almost three miles, through 
mud and water, we trudged along, and tired and hungry 
arrived in camp about 9 p. m. 



CARRYING THE COLORS. 

Sergeant Dinsmore was the original bearer of the 
National colors, but at Fredericksburg, while the regi- 
ment was moving forward to attack the enemy's lines, a 
piece of shell struck Dinsmore in the left breast, and he 
fell, mortally wounded, carrying the colors with him to 
the ground. Without a moment's delay Capt. C. D. 
Copp, then second lieutenant of the color company, 
sprang quickly to the front, drew the colors from under 
his fallen comrade, and calling out, " Forward, boys, 
forward !" led the regiment through that terrible storm 
of shot, shell, and leaden hail, carrying them as far for- 
ward as the regiment went on that field. For this act 
Captain Copp was awarded the "Medal of Honor " which 
by an act of congress is given to all soldiers who dis- 
tinguish themselves by any deed of special bravery. 

The next morning, at roll-call. Captain Stone called 
for some sergeant to volunteer to carry the colors. The 
regiment had been so much reduced that only one or two 
sergeants were left in the color company, and as no one 



254 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [December, 

seemed anxious for the dangerous position, Captain 
Stone again called out, " Is there any private who will 
volunteer to take the colors?" James B. Prendable was 
a brave fellow, though a little slow of speech, but he 
finally managed to stammer out, " I-I-1 11 t-take them, 
Ca-Captain, and ca-ca-carry them t-till I fall !" He was 
promoted to be color sergeant, and carried the colors 
until he, too, was wounded on the field at Spottsylvania. 




Colok-Bearer James Prendable, Co. F. 



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George W. Morton, Co. F. 




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Charles W. Undbbhill, Co. F. 



EoscoE B. Kidder, Co. F. 



CHAPTER VIII. 

Falmouth, Newport News, and Kentucky. 

January 26, 1863, General Burnside transferred the 
command of the Army of the Potomac to Major-General 
Joseph Hooker. No general movement of the army had 
been made since the abortive attempt to dislodge the 
Confederate forces at Fredericksburg. During the last 
days of December a cavalry raid under General Averill 
around the enemy's left had been auspiciously begun, 
and was to have been supplemented by a general move- 
ment along his front and right flank, but positive orders 
from Washington prevented the successful accomplish- 
ment of the commanding general's plans. 

On the 20th of January a movement across the Rap- 
pahannock at Banks's ford was inaugurated, but was 
foiled by a furious rain-storm, which rendered the roads 
absolutely impassable. Even the march back to Fal- 
mouth was made with extreme difficulty. Burnside, 
whose plans had now been thwarted for the third time, 
tendered his resignation as major-general of volunteers ; 
but the president refused to accept it, preferring to relieve 
him of the command of the Army of the Potomac, and to 
retain his services for use in other fields. 

The order relieving Burnside arrived on the 25th, he 
turned the command over to Hooker on the 26th, and 
immediately proceeded to Providence. After a few 
weeks rest he was appointed to the command of the 



256 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [March, 

Department of the Ohio, with head-quarters at Cincin- 
nati. This department comprised the states of Ohio, 
Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and eastern Kentucky. 
General Burnside reached Cincinnati March 23, and 
assumed command on the 25th. The Confederate gen- 
eral Pegram was devastating central Kentucky almost 
without opposition, and the need of re-enforcements to 
the unattached Federal regiments in Burnside's depart- 
ment was manifest. On his request the two divisions of 
the Ninth corps commanded by Generals Willcox and 
Sturgis were transferred to the Department of the Ohio, 
from Newport News, whither they had been sent from 
Falmouth on February 10. 

General Sturgis was relieved of his command on the 
departure of the division from Newport News, and 
Gen. Robert B. Potter, formerly colonel of the Fifty- 
first New York, was assigned to the position. On 
March 13, 1863, Colonel Potter was promoted to be 
brigadier-general. Getty's division (formerly Rod- 
man's) was detached from its corps at Newport News 
and ordered to Suffolk, where the enemy was threat- 
ening the Federal works. This division as a complete 
command never afterwards rejoined the Ninth corps, 
but the detached regiments never forgot their former 
comrades, and though transferred to other commands 
their tents still bore the initials "9th A. C," by which 
thev were proud to be known. 

General Burnside's affection for the officers and men 
who were attached to the Ninth corps never lessened. 
In his general order taking leave of the Army of the 
Potomac he said, — "The commanding general, in tak- 
ing an affectionate leave of the entire army, from which 
he separates with much regret, may be pardoned if he 



1863.] FALMOUTH TO KENTUCKY. 257 

bids an especial farewell to his long-tried associates of 
the Ninth corps. His prayers are that God may be with 
you, and grant you continual success until the Rebellion 
be crushed." 

The corps in Kentucky was once more under its 
beloved Burnside, but since his advancement from its 
special direction to more extended duties many changes 
in corps commanders had occurred. Following General 
Burnside came Maj. Gen, Jesse L. Reno, who was killed 
at South Mountain, September 14, 1862. General Reno 
was succeeded by Gen. Jacob D. Cox, who did such 
good service at Antietam ; but on October 7, 1862, 
General Cox, with his famous Kanawha division, was 
ordered to West Virginia. Brig. Gen. Orlando B. Will- 
cox was then assigned to the command of the corps. 
Brig. Gen. W. W. Burns taking charge of General Will- 
cox's division, and Brig. Gen. G. W. Getty that of the 
gallant Rodman, who fell at Antietam. 

General Willcox retained the command through the 
Battle of Fredericksburg, where his services were mani- 
fold and highly meritorious, and until just before Gen- 
eral Burnside left the Army of the Potomac, when Maj. 
Gen. John Sedgwick succeeded General Willcox, and 
the latter returned to his division. February 5, 1863, 
General Sedgwick was transferred to the Sixth corps, 
and Maj. Gen. William F. Smith was assigned to the 
Ninth. In March, 1863, Smith was succeeded by Maj. 
Gen. John G. Parke, an old companion-in-arms, who had 
been General Burnside's chief of staff when the latter 
commanded the corps and also when he directed the 
Army of the Potomac. 

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During the winter at Falmouth, until the corps 

XVI 



258 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [January, 

removed to Newport News, the Ninth regiment had suf- 
fered severely from sickness. Not expecting to remain 
for a long time on tlie ground where they encamped 
before and after the Battle of Fredericksburg, many of 
the men did not build comfortable quarters ; and in a few 
weeks the forests had been so completely cleared away, 
for miles in that vicinity, that it was almost impossible to 
obtain firewood, to say nothing of material for building 
quarters. Men and officers were alike unaccustomed to 
the shifting weather of a Virginia winter, and knew 
nothing of preparing "winter quarters." Fevers pre- 
vailed to an alarming extent, and the regiment was also 
visited by measles, and during the winter many were 
borne to their last resting-place beneath Virginia soil. 

The new year opened with fine, clear weather, much 
like the latter part of October in a more northern clime : 
but as many of the boys were almost barefoot, and with- 
out gloves or mittens, drilling was pretty cold work in 
the frost of the early morning. x\t the regular drill on 
New Year's morning. Company I had a pleasant sur- 
prise in store for their tbrmer captain, now Lieutenant- 
Colonel Babbitt, they having clubbed together and sent 
to Washington for a handsome field sword and belt cost- 
ing thirty-five dollars. Sergt. S. H. Perry made the 
presentation speech. The colonel was taken by sur- 
prise that time, and after heartily thanking the boys for 
their beautiful and appropriate gift, he was heard to 
wonder how they managed to get it into camp without 
his knowing about it. Perhaps if Adjutant Chandler 
had been questioned in regard to the matter the colonel 
would have found out how it was done. 

Outside the ordinary routine of duty the camp was very 
quiet, the men spending most of their time in the shelter 



1863.] FALMOUTH TO KENTUCKY. 259 

of their thin cotton tents ; while the few who had been for- 
tunate enough to have secured log huts for themselves, 
could indulge in the luxury of a fire in a mud fire-place 
with a barrel for a chimney, provided they were willing 
to cut the wood and then " back " it for a mile or more 
to camp. It is not strange that the majority of the 
soldiers were suffering from colds and sore throats, and 
that the hospital steward was overrun with applications 
for " syrup of squills." 

Quartermaster Moses was absent from camp that New 
Year's day on a very pleasant duty, for word had come 
from Washington that a number of boxes for the Ninth 
New Hampshire boys had been forwarded from that 
point to Aquia Creek. When the quartermaster ar- 
rived with his precious treasures the following day, 
you would have thought a Fourth of July celebration 
was going on in camp, so great was the uproar of 
rejoicing. Only those who have suffered from cold and 
hunger can understand what warm clothing and some 
of " mother's cooking " meant to the boys at that time. 

The night of January 3 was spent by the regiment on 
picket, and they had but just got back to camp the next 
morning when they were ordered out again for inspection. 
"Not very many left to inspect!" was the comment, 
and what with the wounded and the sick, the ranks were 
indeed thin. A day or two later they were out again, 
this time participating in a grand review of the corps 
by General Burnside, though a sudden shower rather 
spoiled the effect and sent the men to their quarters on 
the " double-quick." 

Rainy weather was dreaded by the soldiers perhaps 
the worst of all, for it was impossible to keep dry in 
their tents, and a long or severe storm would make the 



26o NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [January, 

" floor " of the tightest hut a reguhir mud-puddle. One 
day would be as warm and mild as in the early spring, 
and the men would be out on drill for two or three hours 
at a time, without a thought of being cold ; and perhaps 
the very next day would come a driving storm, and they 
would crouch, shivering, in their tents till the sun shone 
again. So it was that one after another fell victims to 
the prevalent maladies, and were borne to the hospital. 

About once in four days the regiment did picket duty, 
and drills were varied by a detail to cut wood, which 
now had to be hauled by teams two or three miles. 
There was enough to eat — such as it was — but the con- 
dition of the men, as a whole, was truly deplorable. It 
didn't help matters any, either, to read in the papers 
that the soldiers were supplied with everything to make 
them comfortable. Only the men themselves knew what 
they suffered. The news correspondents and commis- 
sioners, who occasionally visited the camp, seldom 
extended their investigations beyond head-quarters. 
Had they endured what these soldier-bo}' s of ours had — 
march till ten o'clock at night, then pitch tents that were 
frozen stiff', eat a supper of hard-tack and raw pork, and 
turn in with the ground covered with snow and the mer- 
cury below the freezing-point ; bivouac in the open 
streets under the enemy's guns, and march across an 
open plain in the face of almost certain death; or, least 
endurable of all, live, or rather exist, for weeks in a 
literal mud-hole, such as a Northerner would go around 
rather than through, even if provided with rubber boots 
— had they done all these things, suffered all these things, 
then indeed could they have furnished their papers with 
" startling intelligence." 



1863.] FALMOUTH TO KENTUCKY. 26 1 

January 16 orders were received to have the men 
ready to move on the following day, with three days 
rations. Any change from their present quarters was 
welcome, and preparations were made with alacrity. But 
it proved to be a false alarm, and again the monotonous 
regime held sway. At this time nearly all the provisions 
were issued raw, the men making their own coffee and 
doing their cooking, except the weekly dish of beans and 
rice, and many were the devices adopted to enlarge upon 
their somewhat limited bill of fare. 

Occasionally a little flour was to be had, and this was 
made into a kind of pudding, and one of the boys essay- 
ed some biscuits even. While in Fredericksburg he had 
secured a large package of what he took to be saleratus, 
and his plan was to use some vinegar with this to pro- 
duce the coveted leavening power ; but the saleratus, 
instead of dissolving when mixed with the vinegar, 
speedily hardened into a small cake, for it happened to 
be plaster of paris. So that scheme came to naught ; 
but our hero was not a whit discouraged, and with lye, 
manufactured from the ashes in the fire-place, he tried 
his luck again ; and this time succeeded in getting some 
veritable biscuits, light and sweet, though it must be 
confessed they were just a trifle tough. 

Another favorite dish was slices of fat pork fried out, 
and the grav}'^ thickened with a little flour or meal, while 
a bit of apple-sauce was a wonderful lubricator in getting 
down the flinty hard-tack. Hoe-cakes baked in the 
ashes were not be3'ond the veriest tyro, and the men vied 
with each other as to who could serve up the greatest 
variety. Certainly they were none the worse for these 
diversions, and were far happier than if the time had 
been spent in brooding over their misfortunes. 



262 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [January, 

Active operations commenced again on the 20th. Hook- 
er's and Franklin's divisions were to have the advance, 
and accordingly broke camp that day, while the rest of 
the army was ordered to be ready to move on the follow- 
ing morning. That night, however, a violent rain-storm 
set in, continuing all that day and the next, and render- 
ing the roads wholly impassable. It was bad enough 
for those who were left in camp, for every tent was 
flooded, and it was impossible to use the teams for get- 
ting wood ; but the sufferings of those who were exposed 
to the fury of the elements without any shelter whatever, 
were simply beyond description. 

The rain ceased towards night on the 23d, and through 
oceans of mud Hooker's and Franklin's commands 
wearily waded their way back to the old camping- 
ground, though it was only by the combined strength of 
horses and men that the batteries of artillery were 
restored to their former quarters. It was plain that no 
further move could be attempted at present, the number 
of sick ones increased daily, and a sort of dull despair 
settled down upon the camp. 

There were still a large number of cases of the 
measles, and Sergt. C. W. Wilcox had the genuine 
*' black" measles. As soon as a man was over the worst 
of the disease he was sent back to his tent, to make 
room for some other unfortunate, and there were several 
deaths resulting from the increased exposure, which told 
heavily upon the already weakened constitutions. It 
was all that could be done, though it did seem cruel ; but 
when one thinks of caring for eight thousand patients, 
which was the largest number that could be accommo- 
dated in the field and general hospital, besides the many 
that were sick in the tents, some idea of the amount of 



1863.] FALMOUTH TO KENTUCKY. 263 

suffering there was among the soldiers at this time can 
be obtained. 

Colonel Titus, who had been absent on sick leave since 
he was so severely wounded at the Battle of Antietam, 
returned to duty January 31, and received a hearty wel- 
come. Four months only had intervened, but the regi- 
ment which had numbered close to a thousand men on 
that pleasant September afternoon now had less than 
four hundred men in the ranks. 

The first week in February it stormed every day, and 
still one cheery soul wrote home from his quarters in the 
hospital, — "I have sat up a good deal to-day, and what 
do you think is the reason of it? Thank God, my box 
came this afternoon, safe and sound, or nearly so. The 
boys brought it in to me, and helped open it, together 
with Lieutenant Green's. They all thought it the nicest 
box of stuff they had seen. The dried apples and butter 
made their eyes hang right out." 

Another letter reads, — " I am in great need of my coat, 
as my old one has given out round the armpits and the but- 
ton-holes are nearly torn out. When I came out here I 
did n't have a single ragged thing, but now I am all rags. 
The boots we get here are miserable affairs, and I want 

N to get me up a good pair. Send them by mail 

and mark them ' Soldier's Comforts,' and they will come 
for a cent an ounce." 

On the 6th orders were issued for the sending to Wash- 
ington of the sick, and for the command to be ready to 
move at a moment's notice, though the Ninth went on 
picket duty that morning and was not relieved till three 
o'clock the next afternoon. When Captain Stone ordered 
out Company F only twenty-three men responded to the 
call. It was their last picket tour on the Rappahannock, 



264 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [February, 

for when they got back to camp they found that the sick 
were on their way to Washington, and that they them- 
selves were to leave on the morrow. 

On the morning of February 9 the camp on the Rap- 
pahannock was astir at an early hour, and it was with 
light hearts that the men made ready for their departure 
from this " Slough of Despond" which had claimed so 
many hapeless victims — "martyrs in their country's 
cause." On arriving at the station there was consider- 
able delay before the cars were boarded and the journey 
to Aquia Creek was begun. It was nearly dark when 
the long train finally came to a standstill, but by eight 
o'clock the Ninth New Hampshire was on board the 
transport Coluvibia, and the weary travellers, snugly 
wrapped in their blankets, were ready for the "sweet 
restorer" to commence his wonted labors. 

The morning dawned, bright, warm, and clear, and 
about ten o'clock the Columbia weighed anchor, and in 
company with the Metamoi'a and Juniata steamed down 
the stream. These transports had on board the troops of 
the brigade, and were followed by several schooners 
which were conveying the trains and heavy baggage. 
Many of the men remained on deck the greater portion 
of the day, watching the numerous craft on the broad 
bosom of the Potomac, or trying to get interested in the 
rather monotonous scendry along the banks of that noble 
stream. 

Perhaps the most novel scene of the day was that 
afforded by three tugs, puffing and snorting along 
against the current, towing no less than forty barges 
laden with hay. These were fastened together four 
abreast, and formed an imposing load for the three little 
sea ponies to which they were attached. During the 



1863] FALMOUTH TO KENTUCKY. 265 

middle of the day the sun shone out so warmly as to be 
quite oppressive, and this to Northern-bred men seemed 
not a little remarkable, remembering, as they did, that 
up in the old Granite state the snow would be lying 
white and thick on hill-top and valley. 



NEWPORT NEWS TO CINCINNATI. 

The morning sunlight was gilding the scene when the 
Ninth New Hampshire boys roused themselves sufficiently 
to look about them. The boat was anchored in Hampton 
Roads, and on all sides were vessels of every descrip- 
tion, their white sails gleaming in the bright sunlight and 
their colors dipping in the fresh breeze. Close at hand 
rose the grim-looking walls of Fortress Monroe, its black- 
mouthed cannon, with those of the Rip-Raps just across 
the channel, threatening with mute defiance the foe who 
should dare to venture within their reach. 

It was not long before orders were received to proceed 
at once to Newport News, and it was nearly noon when 
the boat dropped anchor near the landing. The Ninth 
came ashore during the afternoon, and went into camp 
on a dry, sandy plain about a half mile from the landing, 
with an abundance of wood and water close at hand. 

What an immense relief was the change to their pres- 
ent situation from the mud and filth of Falmouth ! The 
men set about the arrangements for their new homes with 
light hearts and willing hands, their quarters soon boast- 
ing of bunks, fire-places, and in fact all the modern con- 
veniences their Yankee ingenuit}^ could devise. The 
weather was delightful, and plenty of soft bread and 
other good things to which they had long been stran- 
gers were provided in abundance. Oysters of the very 



266 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [March, 

best quality could be bought for a dollar a bushel in the 
shell, and were an appetizing addition to the bill of fare. 
So, with the help of an occasional box of" goodies" from 
home friends, the men contrived to exist very comfort- 
ably, and life took on a somewhat brighter hue. 

As soon as they had become fairly well settled in their 
new quarters. Colonel Titus instituted daily drills again ; 
but as he was an excellent disciplinarian, and withal 
popular with the men, they did not regard their duties as 
especially irksome, and were very proud of their effi- 
ciency, when, in the latter part of February, the Ninth 
corps was reviewed by Generals Dix and Smith. What 
was to become of them when the spring campaign 
opened, was a question that troubled them very little at 
this time. The prevailing opinion seemed to be that 
Hooker would proceed to attack Lee as soon as the 
roads became passable for the artillery, and it was 
thought that the Ninth corps would be sent farther south. 
But " Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof," had 
long been the motto of the Ninth New Hampshire, and 
they proposed to enjoy their present advantages to the 
utmost while they lasted. 

So the days slipped by, in unvaried, though pleasant, 
monotony, and on March 25 the long expected orders 
arrived. The six-weeks rest under favorable conditions 
had greatly improved the general health of the men, and 
they were in far better shape for an active campaign than 
when they left Falmouth. It was not without regret that 
they left their pleasant camp on the James, yet once on 
board the steamer Croton, that was to carry them up the 
Chesapeake to Baltimore, three hearty cheers rent the 
air as the steamer cast her moorinrrs and the Ninth New 
Hampshire was once more en route. 



1863.] FALMOUTH TO KENTUCKY. 267 

Baltimore was reached on the afternoon of the 26th, 
and having marched across the city, the regiment 
boarded the cars. It was nearly dark when the train 
started on its w^ay to Harrisburg, and when York was 
reached, towards eleven o'clock, a stop of about an hour 
was made, while rations and hot coffee were issued to 
the men, who had had nothing to eat for thirty-six hours. 
The pie and apple girls were out in full force, and the 
boys invested their spare change in a liberal supply of 
these delectables. When daylight dawned, the train was 
passing up the vallev of the Susquehanna, and soon 
after came to a stop in the pleasant city of Harrisburg. 
Here the train was switched onto the Pennsylvania 
Central road, and pushed steadily on for Pittsburg, two 
hundred and fifty miles away. At Altoona and Patter- 
son short stops were made, and hot coffee was served to 
the men through the kindly forethought of General 
Burnside, who had preceded them on the journey. 

The train steamed into the " Iron city" a little before 
midnight on the 27th, and the men were glad to " unkink 
the knots" by a short march to the city hall, where the 
kind-hearted women had prepared a bountiful repast for 
the hungry and wearied soldiers. Having done ample 
justice to the good things, and given three rousing 
cheers for the fair donors, the return march to the station 
was made, where, stowing themselves away in con- 
venient corners, the men devoted the remaininor hours of 
the night to such sleep as it was possible to obtain. 

At an early hour the journey was resumed, this time 
over the Ohio Central. The day passed uneventfully, 
and the men were too tired and sleepy to pay much 
attention to their surroundings. Only one stop was made 
before reaching Columbus, where they arrived late in 



268 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [March. 

the night. Soon after daylight they were again on the 
way, and at three o'clock in the afternoon of Sunday, 
March 29, the train came to a standstill in the city of 
Cincinnati, Ohio. 

Only a few minutes were required to clear the cars of 
their living freight, and the men needed no urging to 
fall into a "double-quick" for the short march to the 
Fifth-street market, where a good dinner was waiting 
for them. Arms were quickly stacked in the street, and 
the men fell to with alacrity after their long fast. This 
pleasant duty being satisfactorily accomplished and their 
hosts roundly cheered, they started for the ferry, paus- 
ing as they passed General Burnside's head-quarters to 
give him three cheers and a "tiger." The river was 
•crossed, a train boarded, and about dark the regiment 
was on its way to Lexington, Ky., one hundred miles to 
the south. 



THE BLUE GRASS REGION. 

Before the arrival of the troops from the East, the 
Confederate forces under General Pegram had been 
driven across the Cumberland river by the Union men 
under Generals Gillmore and Boyle, and with the arrival 
of the two divisions of the Ninth corps there came to the 
much-harassed people of Kentucky an assurance of 
security from further depredations by their neighbors on 
the south. Yet the Northern troops were not received 
at first in the most cordial w^ay, for the Kentuckians 
were not much acquainted with Yankees and were pre- 
judiced against them, nor did they care to welcome 
Abolitionists to their homes. But the Union troops had 



1863] FALMOUTH TO KENTUCKY. 269 

been sent there to foster patriotism, they were deter- 
mined that the Kentuckians should be less inclined to 
rebellion because the Yankees were in their midst ; and 
it did not take the inhabitants a very long time to dis- 
cover that their preconceived notions of Northern char- 
acter were at fault. 

The Ninth New Hampshire had been the first regiment 
of the Ninth corps to enter upon Kentucky soil, and one 
of the men liked the climate — or the whiskey — so well 
that he was determined not to board the cars at Coving- 
ton with the rest. In vain the sergeant besought him to 
go peaceably, and finally Captain Stone lost his patience. 
Seizing the mutinous soldier by the nape of the neck 
and the seat of the trousers, he pitched him bodily into 
the car. 

The forward car was occupied by Benjamin's battery, 
and they had managed to smuggle on board a consider- 
able cargo of Kentucky's choicest production, wherewith 
they proposed to regale themselves during the journey. 
The New Hampshire boys were n't long in scenting out 
the racket, and at every opportunity the canteens were 
replenished at "the Spring." 

It was late in the afternoon of Monday, the 30th of 
March, when the regiment arrived at Lexington. They 
marched through the city and encamped on the fair- 
grounds just beyond. The next day the men set about 
building shanties from the liberal supply of boards 
afforded by the furnishings of the grounds, and having 
contrived to secured straw for beds, thought themselves 
very fortunate. 

Head-quarters were established in a beautiful house 
which had been the home of an officer in the Confederate 
service, and Colonel Titus and Adjutant Chandler 



270 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [April, 

received their visitors and did business in an elegfant 
parlor decked out with long mirrors, marble-topped 
tables, and the like. The regular camp routine was at 
once entered upon, the first inspection and dress parade 
at Camp Ella Bishop being held on April i. 

The removal from the sterile, worn-out, unhospitable 
tobacco lands of Virginia to the fertile, health-giving, 
corn- and wheat-fields in the Blue Grass region of Ken- 
tucky, was like a translation to another sphere. The 
sunken eyes grew bright, the sallow cheeks took on the 
glow of returning health, and the weakened and debili- 
tated systems received new life and vigor. The men 
greatly enjoyed their new quarters, but it seemed to be 
their fate that the more comfortable the place the shorter 
was the stay. Just at dusk on the 7th of April an order 
was received moving the camp to Winchester, a small 
town about twenty miles distant. 

By seven o'clock on the following morning the tents 
were struck, and the regiment was once more on the 
move. The march was a wearisome one, over the hard 
pikes with their attendant clouds of dust, but when Win- 
chester was reached the regiment was given a pleasant 
camping-ground in an old pasture on top of a hill about 
two miles out from the town. The hill was well wooded 
with large oak and walnut trees, and the boys had gay 
times running gray squirrels. As many as fifty or a 
hundred soldiers would be after one poor squirrel, and 
the one who succeeded in catching the plucky and agile 
<rame, who had no chance to climb a tree and could onlv 
dodge around the feet of its pursuers, was the hero of the 
chase, and usually lost no time in converting his prize 
into a savory soup. 



1863.] FALMOUTH TO KENTUCKY. 27 1 

The regiment was paid off on the 12th, and the boys 
found plenty of chances to invest their spare change. 
Provisions were plenty and cheap, but the natives had 
little idea of the worth of one article in comparison with 
another, as a Yankee would reckon it, and contented 
themselves with asking for each as high a figure as they 
thought the customer would give, though with utter dis- 
regard of the relative value. A colored man came into 
camp one day with two baskets, — one of baked chickens 
and the other of hoe-cakes. " How much do you ask 
for your chickens, Uncle?" called out a soldier. "Jess 
a quartah, Massa," was the answer, and at that figure 
the contents of the first basket were quickly disposed of. 
The old darkey, elated at his success, then produced his 
hoe-cakes, and was greatly surprised that they found no 
purchasers at fifty cents apiece. 

Occasionally the boys would save up their coffee and 
barter it for provisions. One day when a woman came 
into camp to trade, the only coffee on hand was already 
burned for grinding, and she refused to take it except at 
a discount. In vain the cook tried to convince her that 
as she bought by weight it was all in her favor — "he 
could n't stuff that down her craw, for she knowed burnt 
coffee was the lightest." 

On the 1 6th orders came for the regiment to be ready 
to march at six o'clock that evening to Boonsboro, about 
ten miles to the south, in anticipation of a Confederate 
raid at that point. It was an all-night march, and when 
Boonsboro was reached, then the command was ordered 
to push on to Richmond, which lay about twenty miles to 
the west from Lexington. Crossing the Kentucky river 
at Boonsboro was a matter of time, for the only means 
available were several old mud-scows, which called for 



272 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [May, 

considerable skill in paddling to prevent swamping the 
ticklish craft. The rest of the journey was through 
rather a pleasant part of the country, and Richmond 
was reached about noon of the i8th. 

Nearly three weeks were spent in this pleasant camp, 
and the usual routine obtained. Fast day fell on the 30th 
of April, and the troops were mustered to attend divine 
"service at head-quarters, but were excused frorli other 
duties. Orders were received that afternoon to be ready 
to march at daybreak next morning, with three days 
rations in haversacks and two of cooked rations on the 
teams. The camp presented a livel}^ appearance during 
the evening, for the soldiers were making ready for the 
morrow, ambulances were conveying away the sick, and 
supply trains were bringing in rations. The cooks 
worked nearly all night boiling meat, and before dawn 
the camp was alive with preparation. Knapsacks were 
hastily packed, an unusually early breakfast was eaten, 
and then the word was given to "do no more packing 
until further orders." 

The march did not begin till Sunday, May 3, when a 
start was made at seven o'clock in the morning and six- 
teen miles covered, through a drenching rain, before a 
halt was called late in the afternoon and the tents were 
pitched at Paint Lick. When the regiment assembled for 
dress parade the next day, three important orders were 
promulgated, — one from President Lincoln in regard to a 
lieutenant who was discharged on account of expressing 
sympathy with the Confederates, one from Colonel Titus 
regarding stragglers, and another forbidding gambling. 

Near the camp at Paint Lick was a small church, 
which General Nagle used for brigade head-quarters, 
and on May 6 the grass-plat in front of this church 



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was the scene of a jolly gathering. Several Kentucky 
ladies called on the general, and were royally enter- 
tained by the brigade commander and his staft\ The 
bands played national airs, and an orchestra of one lone 
violin summoned the merrymakers to the grass-plat for a 
hop. The dancing party was interfered with, however, 
by a brisk shower, which drove them into the church for 
shelter. The rain-drops were falling thick and fast, and 
showed no signs of lessening, so the ambulances were 
ordered out, the ladies bestowed therein, and, escorted by 
the whole staff, the visiting belles were safely returned to 
their homes, while the band boys and the orchestra made 
haste to devour " what grub there was left." 

May 10 another Sunday march was made to Lancas- 
ter, some eleven miles away, the regiment arriving in 
the early afternoon and pitching their camp in a large, 
grassy field. The First brigade was here joined by the 
Second, just in dme to share in the jollification over the 
news that General Dix's forces were occupying Rich- 
mond, Va., and that communication with Fredericksburg 
had been cut off. The next day there was a genuine 
sensation in camp, a case of small-pox having developed 
among some convalescent soldiers who had joined the 
regiment just before going into camp at Lexington. 

The man was immediately put in a tent in the woods^ 
with good nurses who had had the disease, and the com- 
pany to which he belonged was put into camp by itself, 
a quarter of a mile distant, under a strong guard. The 
whole regiment was vaccinated, and every precaution 
taken to ward off the disease. The poor fellow who 
first had it died in four days, but there were no further 
indications of an outbreak. The vaccine matter worked 
so well, and affected the general health of the men so 



XVIII 



274 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [May, 

much, that when the brigade moved on the 23d the regi- 
ment was in no condition to undergo the fatigue of the 
march, and so they were left behind, with orders to fol- 
low in five days. 

The march to Crab Orchard was made on tiie 28th, 
but on arriving there it was found that the division had 
again been broken up, the Second brigade having moved 
on to Stamford, and this was the beginning of the grad- 
ual disintegration which in the course of time wholly 
separated the Ninth New Hampshire from the corps. 
Colonel Griffin of the Sixth New Hampshire was now in 
command of the First brigade. General Nagle having 
resigned the command on account of ill health. 

For two or three days part of the regiment was 
detailed for picket duty on the main pike between Crab 
Orchard and Stamford. One day a sheriff appeared in 
the camp, and attempted to arrest a young contraband 
who was acting as w^aiter for Lieutenant Copp. The 
little fellow set up the most piteous cries for help, and 
the whole camp turned out to the rescue. The sheriff 
was a six-foot Kentuckian, and with the help of his half- 
grown son was attempting to get the boy off without 
making any disturbance. They had come upon him 
unawares, and having secured by strategy the revolver 
with which the boys had furnished him, evidently 
thought they had made sure of their prey. 

The darkey, on the other hand, was determined not to 
give up without a battle, and was biting, kicking, and 
screaming to the full extent of his ability. " O dear ! 
Don't! Charlie, Ciiarlie, I say, don't let me go!" 
By this time the men were swarming out like bees from 
an overturned hive, and the Kentuckian saw that his 
little game was up. Without much opposition he relin- 



1863.] FALMOUTH TO KENTUCKY. 275 

quished his hold upon the boy and gave up the pistol. 
Taking this, "Sambo" was very speedily missing, and 
probably all the sheriffs in the state couldn't have found 
him again that day. Seeing that he was not going to be 
torn in pieces immediately, the slave-hunter's courage 
revived, and he attempted to fall back upon his dignity. 
" Hold on, boys ! I am high sheriff' of Lincoln county. 
I can show 3-ou my authority !" he exclaimed, putting one 
hand in his pocket for the warrant. 

The fact that he was high sheritf of Lincoln county 
didn't seem to frighten the crowd materially. "Show 

it, and be d d ! " " Go to h — 1 with it ! '* w^ere some 

of the replies with which his announcement was greeted. 
Just then, somebody sung out " A rail ! " and " A rail ! " 
"A rail!" was the response from a hundred voices. 
His honor, the high sheriff of Lincoln county, didn't 
seem to particularly fanc}' this idea of a rail, and look- 
ing very pale and sheepish began to edge off as fast as 
possible, his son shedding floods of tears over the pros- 
pect of seeing his paternal relative treated to a ride on a 
fence-pole. 

- At this point the officer of the day appeared, and having 
quieted the boys a little, escorted the high sheriff of 
Lincoln county to the colonel's tent. The only comfort 
which awaited him there was the information that he 
had no business in camp without the permission of the 
commanding officer, and that had he obtained this, he 
must then run his own risk of finding and securing his 
runaway property, though he would have been pro- 
tected from personal violence. This course of action 
the colonel, according to the strict letter of the law, 
would be obliged to take, but he knew very well, that 
with the warning given that a sheriff was in the camp. 



276 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [June, 

there was small danger of a contraband ever being 
discovered. 

This was by no means the only experience that the 
boys had with the slave-hunters. Adjutant Chandler 
had a black boy about eighteen years old for a servant, 
whose master sought repeatedly to find him in the camp, 
but the adjutant kept a close watch and finally got the 
boy safely away. 

Another time, when Colonel Babbitt was brigade 
officer of the day, Lieutenant Perry brought in a 
colored man who was not much darker than his white- 
blooded brethren were at that time. He had run away 
from his master, and wanted to go with the regiment. 
The colonel asked him several questions, and then Lieu- 
tenant Perry took up the ball. " Did n't your master 
always use you well?" "Yes, most always." "Didn't 
he give you plenty to eat?" "Always." "You 
always had good clothes?" " Massa always gave us 
good clothes, plenty to eat and drink, and all that. 
Massa always treats us well." "Why," said Perry, 
"if that's the case, what in the devil did you want to 
run away for?" "Well, Massa," said the slave, "it' 
you think that's all a man wants in this world, plenty to 
eat and drink and good clothes, there 's a vacancy down 
where I came from." Perry was so mad he wanted to 
give the negro a good thrashing, but Colonel Babbitt 
told him he thought the negro had answered him well. 

It had been intended to use the troops from Newport 
News in a movement which Generals Burnside and 
Rosecrans were organizing against the Confederates in 
East Tennessee, and on June 2 General Burnside left 
Cincinnati for Lexington, to take personal command of 
his forces in the field ; but on his arrival there he found 



1 863] FALMOUTH TO KENTUCKY. 277 

an order awaiting him to send 8,000 men at once to 
Vicksburg to re-enforce General Grant, which obliged him 
to change his plans. Instead of the trip to East Tennes- 
see the troops were ordered to be ready to march the 
next morning with eight days rations. Reveille was 
sounded at two o'clock that morning, and by four o'clock 
the men were on the march. Camp Dick Robinson was 
reached just at dark, and the next morning the march to 
Nicholasville was resumed. That place was reached by 
noon, and quite late that afternoon the cars were taken 
for Covington. 

No hint of their destination had as yet reached the 
rank and file, and many were the speculations indulged 
in as to the cause of the sudden change in the general's 
plans. At daybreak on June 6 the Ohio river was 
crossed, and cars on the Ohio & Mississippi railroad 
were taken at Cincinnati. It became evident then that 
Vicksburg, eight hundred miles away, was the objective 
point. This was a change with a vengeance ; but then, 
as Voltaire said about his ornamental trees when a friend 
remarked that they grew rapidly, "That is what they 
are here for." 

At noon a short stop was made at Seymour, Ind., and 
Vincennes was reached at dark. An all-day ride in a 
freight car, packed in like sheep, roused a hearty appre- 
ciation of the good bread and coffee that was furnished 
them here by the citizens. The Wabash was crossed, 
they were in Illinois, and all night long, through the 
darkness and gloom of a heavy rain, the cars rattled on 
towards Cairo, which was reached on Sunday, June 7, 
at candle-light. The regiment was marched to a low 
plain just north of the city, through oceans of sticky mud 
that threatened at every step to deprive them of their 



278 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [June, 

boots. Here they were ordered to make themselves 
"comfortable" during the night. 

Such a feat would have been an impossibility to a 
civilian, but a soldier is bound to obey orders ; ergo, 
when told to be comfortable, he straightway is com- 
fortable. But in this particular instance, the men, though 
comfortable, were not quiet, and either because of their 
just complaints, or because some one feared they would 
be lost in the mud, they were again ordered to fall in, 
and were marched to the depot in the city, where the 
remainder of the night was passed in dry quarters. 
During the afternoon of June 8 the regiment boarded 
the transport Armada^ and the following morning was 
steaming down the Mississippi. 



Quartermaster Moses tells a story of a negro who 
came to him the night that was spent at Camp Dick 
Robinson, and who shared the fortunes of the regiment 
until they returned to Kentucky again, as follows : 

THE STORY OF THE BOY ISAAC. 

I was told that there was a colored boy who wanted to 
see me. He was about five feet ten in height, and had 
very good features, except that he had the flattest nose I 
ever saw. He said he was owned by a man named 
Bias, who was trying to turn all his property into 
cash, so that he could get out of the country. The boy 
said he was afraid his master was going to sell him to a 
man who had occasionally hired him. He seemed to be 
very much troubled, and said, "I can't suit that man 
nohow, and still he is going to buy me; and I don't 
want him to have me. I 've heard good talk about you^ 



1863.] FALMOUTH TO KENTUCKY. 279 

and I want to go with you." " Well," said I, "there has 
been a great uproar here several times about your unfor- 
tunate race, and I declare I don't know what to do with 
you." 

The wagons were ranged along in a row, and I was 
walking back and forth by them, and he was following 
along. Pointing to a convenient hole in one of the 
wagons, I said, " Do you suppose a man of your size 
could crawl into a hole of that size?" I turned right 
away, and I did n't see that colored boy after that until 
we got to Nicholasville, and then he chanced to be in 
the first wagon that was unloaded. It so happened that 
one of the cars had been in a collision, and had one 
corner stove in. I saw in a minute that this would make 
a breathing-place for the fellow, and in a trice we had 
him in the car, and had a barricade of hard-tack boxes 
built up around him. This was the last of him until 
Covington was reached. 

We were busy loading the stuff onto wagons, in order 
to get it across the ferry, when one of the men said, 
" Qiiartermaster, I 'm afraid you'll lose your negro now, 
because we're getting out of Kentucky." "Jeff," said I, 
" you want to keep in mind thatthis is a Virginia negro," 
I then had Isaac take an old horse by the bridle, and 
told him to go on and keep twitching the bridle, and 
not mind what I said. 

He obeyed implicitly, and as we went along to the 
ferry I kept saying, " O you black rascal, you Virginia 
darkey, if I ever get you across this river I '11 pay you up !" 
There was a Kentucky lieutenant there at the ferry, and 
he called out, "What have you got there?" Said I, 
" He 's a Virginia negro that I've been bringing up here, 
and he 's no good, and when I get him down in Missis- 



28o NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [June, 

sippi I'll kill him. I've been feeding him for months, 
and have n't got one hour's good service out of him. O 
you black rascal, go along with you ! " I kept that up, 
and fairly beguiled the Kentucky lieutenant until we had 
crossed the river. 

He went down with me to Mississippi, and proved to 
be true and reliable. Zimmerman wanted him, and said 
he would give him a dollar a day. I told Isaac of the 
offer, and that I couldn't afford to pay him that, but he 
said he did n't want to go, and clung to me. He stayed 
by us until we got to Cincinnati, on our way back to 
Kentucky in the latter part of August. When it came to 
crossing the river, he came to me and said, " I have got 
to bid you good-by." "Wh^s how is that?" said I. 
" You are going over there in Kentuck," said he, 
" where they hold my race slaves. I've got m}' freedom 
now, but over there I lose it, and I can't give it up ! " I 
told him to stay around there, and I w^ould come back 
as soon as I could ; but we went farther down, and that 
was the last I ever knew of him. 



A sad incident of the journey to Cairo was the burst- 
ing of a locomotive at Nicholasville, George K. Gage of 
Company K being killed outright, and N. B. Chamber- 
lain of Company I seriously injured. The story of 
Chamberlain's experience is told by himself: 

"We had started to go to Vicksburg, and some of us 
were detailed to guard the baggage at Nicholasville. I 
was in the freight car, with one or two others, after we 
had got the baggage loaded and were read3'^to go. The 
engine had been backed up to the car, and left there, 
and all at once it blew up. The engineer and fireman 



1863.] FALMOUTH TO KENTUCKY. 28 1 

had left the engine, and so they did n't get hurt at all. 
I don't remember anything after the explosion till I found 
somebody was trying to poke my eyes open. It was a 
doctor from the corps head-quarters — I do n't know what 
his name was, — and he was looking at my eyes, and 
poking them open to see if they were gone or not. The 
explosion blew oft' all my hair, and shut my eyes so that 
I did n't see anything for three weeks. I bear the marks 
of the scalding on my arms, breast, and legs now. I 
was in the Main-street hospital at Covington until the 
regiment came back from Vicksburg, and then I joined 
them, and we went down to Paris, Ky." 



CHAPTER IX. 
The Mississippi Campaign. 

It was on a dismal, rainy day that the Ninth New 
Hampshire started on that fatal journey down the Mis- 
sissippi on the steamer Armada. A few of the com- 
panies were quartered on the lower deck, along with the 
heavy freight, horses, engines, and coal ; but even these 
surroundings were preferable to the hurricane deck, 
where the remaining companies faced the storm unshel- 
tered. There was almost unbroken monotony in the 
scenery, as the steamer glided swiftly through the yel- 
low water, the low banks being covered, except at rare 
intervals, with dense forests of cottonwood, and most of 
the men preferred to pass the time in sleep. During the 
day the regiment was paid off for the month of April. 
As it grew dark the boat was anchored near the shore, 
the channel being too narrow for safe navigation except 
by daylight. 

The next day was clear and bright, and the boat 
arrived at Memphis a little after noon. As they were to 
await the arrival of the remainder of the Ninth corps at 
this point, the troops were allowed to go ashore. Ripe 
blackberries, new apples, and other good things were in 
the market, and the treat of fresh fruit was greatly 
enjoyed. By night nearly all the corps had arrived, 
and for a lonjf distance the shore was crowded with 
boats and packets loaded with men, horses, and muni- 
tions of war. 

At daybreak on the 12th of June quite a fleet set out 



1863] THE MISSISSIPPI CAMPAIGN. 283 

from Memphis. There were fifteen large river boats, 
escorted by three gunboats, and all these were heavily 
laden with troops and supplies for the army at Vicks- 
burg. Below Memphis the river is very crooked, and it 
happened quite often that those in the rear boats could 
look across the land and see the foremost boats moving 
in an exactly opposite direction, though all were going 
down river. A stop of an hour or so w^as made at noon, 
at Helena, Ark., where contraband troops were busily 
at work throwing up fortifications. About five thousand 
Western soldiers were garrisoned here, under command 
of General Ross. The fleet anchored for the night near 
the mouth of the Arkansas river. 

Just before the fleet reached Columbia the next fore- 
noon, a party of bushwhackers sent a few stray shots 
among the boats, fortunately doing no injury. A gentle 
reminder from a six-pounder was sufficient warning to 
prevent any further attempt at mischief, and at Colum- 
bia several gunboats joined the fleet and escorted it dur- 
ing the passage of the region infested by guerrillas. 

The country was more open along this part of the 
river, and plantations lined the banks on either side. 
In the centre of large cotton- and sugar-fields, and sur- 
rounded usually by a cluster of shade trees, stood the 
palatial home of the planter. A little in the rear could 
be seen the hovels of the negroes, frequently less com- 
fortable than Northern stables, and appearing all the 
more wretched from their contrast with the owner's 
mansion. Near by were the sugar mills or cotton 
storehouses, and the gang of field hands kept at their 
tasks by the lash of the overseer was all that was want- 
ing to complete the picture. 

The fleet reached Providence, La., at the close of a 



284 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [June, 

perfect June day, and a most beautiful panorama pre- 
sented itself to the view. The air was soft and balmy, 
and gently stirred by a deliciously cool breeze ; the 
sharp prows of the boats cleft the yellow waters with a 
soothing ripple ; the setting sun was playing the artist 
with wonderful success — the light of departing day his 
pencils, the cloudless sky his canvas ; the river, with 
slackening current and widened channel, went rolling 
on towards its ocean home with a majesty and grandeur 
commensurate to its lofty title of Father of Waters ; the 
banks were crowned with forests of seemingly tropical 
luxuriance and plantations of unrivalled fertility, which 
the mellow light softened into a scene of almost celestial 
beauty ; while, like things of life, the steamers in 
extended line glided along the bosom of the mighty 
stream, their white walls relieved bv the dark masses of 
soldier}' on the decks, their flags rising and falling in 
the gentle breeze, and their lofty smoke-stacks belching 
huge wreaths of gas and vapor in grotesque defiance 
against the serene heavens. It was nearly midnight, so 
clear was the twilight, ere the boats came to anchor 
near a negro camp at Milliken's Bend. 

At daybreak on Sunday, June 14, the fleet was again 
under way, and at twenty minutes before seven the city 
of Vicksburg was in sight. The troops disembarked at 
Young's Point, La., on the opposite shore from the 
besieged city, arrd having crossed the levee, pitched 
their tents on an old camp-ground about a quarter of a 
mile from the river. Close by the landing was a large 
contraband camp, and the men were greatl}' inter- 
ested in watching the novel and even ludicrous scenes 
that were constantly being enacted before them. The 
majority of the negroes had managed to cover their 



1863.] THE MISSISSIPPI CAMPAIGN. 285 

nakedness, but the variety of apparel was both fearful 
and wonderful. In their departure from the house of 
bondage they had not forgotten to spoil the Egyptians, 
and to " borrow " everything left behind by the master 
and mistress in their hasty flight. 

Here was an old patriarch with bare splay feet, the 
remnants of a pair of plantation trousers, an embroi- 
dered vest, which also did duty as shirt and coat, and 
a brimless straw hat. His companion was a buxom 
" mammv," who had endeavored to deck herself out 
in a gay silk gown that had once graced a belle of 
somewhat more slender proportions. And the remain- 
der of the company, when they were arrayed at all, 
were fully as kaleidoscopic in their decorations. Their 
only shelter from the rain and sun was a few old rem- 
nants of tents and some brush booths. Yet they were 
by no means unhappy ; on the contrary, it was their 
ideal of freedom — plenty of army rations, and no over- 
seer with his cruel lash to drive them to work. They 
had learned their first lesson in politics — to "go in for 
the old flag and appropriations." 

But these poor human chattels, who knew no other 
value of themselves save that reckoned in dollars and 
cents, whose greatest luxury hitherto had been an occa- 
sional holiday, — not one in seven, but one or more at 
Christmas-time — of both sexes, all complexions and 
shades of color, and of all ages, were a strange, sad 
sight for Northern eyes to look upon ; while many of 
their customs, in which the solemn and the grotesque 
were curiously blended, were alternately provocative of 
tears and laughter, and exceedingly touching in that 
they betrayed the extreme ignorance and simplicity of 
these child-like people. 



286 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [June, 

One day funeral services, conducted in regular plan- 
tation style, were held over two little children. The 
coffins — old boxes which had formerly contained army 
rations — were borne to the graves by aged, almost tot- 
tering, negroes, and behind them trailed the mourners 
in their piebald finery. One of the rude coffins was 
lowered into the tiny grave, and then a h3mn was 
"deaconed out" and sung by the mourners and 
friends. It was a good old " Methody " hymn, and 
the preacher pretended to read it from a book, but 
his additions to tlie original text would hardly have 
been appreciated by the author. 

While the mourners were arranged in a circle around 
the grave, a young colored woman who was doing some 
washing near by was attracted by the singing, and tak- 
ing her soap in her hand, she joined the ring and in the 
singing. In her growing interest in this she forgot her 
soap, and it slipped from her hand onto the ground. 
Another woman, singing lustily on the other side, saw^ 
it fall, slipped out of the circle, went slyly around, 
picked up the soap, hid it in her dress, and was soon 
back in her place, singing even more lustily than be- 
fore. 

All knelt during the emotional prayer which followed, 
and in this the soldiers and their wives and little ones 
were quaintly, yet pathetically, remembered. Another 
hymn was sung, and then came a characteristic "dis- 
course," in the midst of which the preacher, finding 
the sun was a little too strong on his unprotected head, 
improvised a covering by folding together the sides of a 
crownless, broad-brimmed hat and laying it flatwise on 
his head. The filhng of the grave was next in order, 
the mourners, led off by the preacher, throwing in 



1S63.] THE MISSISSIPPI CAMPAIGN. 287 

handfuls of dirt, a plaintive chanting accompanying 
the ceremony. The other little form was laid to rest 
with equal respect, but in the rush back to camp which 
ensued, the mourners were lost to sio-ht. 

June 16 the regiment took transports up the Yazoo, 
landed at Haines's Bluff late in the afternoon, and the 
next morning marched two or three miles to Milldale. 
At Haines's Bluff were seen the immense fortifications 
which Grant tried in vain to cross from the front, but 
from which the enemy were quickly driven when he 
came into their rear from the south. Here, too, were 
scores of steamboats and transports, tied up under the 
bank of the Yazoo, showing that Grant was still careful 
about his rear and means of escape, though maintaining 
so bold a front at Vicksburg. 

The regiment remained in the camp at Milldale about 
a week, and then made an advance of three or four 
miles towards the Big Black. July i they were ordered 
to the road running through Grant's right centre to 
Vicksburg, to assist in building fortifications. Three 
days later they were again on the march, in the direc- 
tion of the Big Black. The river was crossed Julv 7, 
and the night w^as spent on the river-bank, in the midst 
of a blinding storm. The next afternoon they joined the 
supply trains, and having drawn rations again pushed 
on till night, when they bivouacked on a large planta- 
tion about four miles from Jackson. 

Early on the morning of July 12, part of the regiment 
was ordered out on the skirmish line, and were set to 
work digging rifle-pits not far from the enemj^'s pickets. 
On the nights of July 15 and 16 the whole regiment was 
ordered out and held as reserves. On the 17th it was 
found that the city of Jackson had been evacuated by the 



288 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [July, 

enemy, and by the 20th the return march to the Big; 
Black was taken up. 

Forty miles were covered in this and the following^ 
day's march, and the men were ready to drop when a 
halt was finally made, in the vicinity of the river, late in 
the night of the 21st. So weary were they, that without 
stopping for coffee or food of any sort they fell on the 
ground where they were and slept the sleep of utter 
exhaustion. The river was crossed late in the afternoon 
of the following day, and after a march often miles the 
regiment bivouacked for the night. The old camp- 
ground at Milldale was reached early in the forenoon of 
the 23d. 

No man who participated in it will ever forget the 
agonies and sufferings endured on that terrible march, 
and will welcome the faithful and by no means over- 
drawn description of it which finds a place here through 
the kindness of Sergeant Gilmore of Company I : 

RECENT OPERATIONS OF THE NINTH ARMY CORPS. 

[Correspondence of the Philadelphia Press?^ 

Milldale, Miss., July 24, 1863. 
The Ninth Army corps has found a resting-place at 
its old camp, after twenty-six days of unusual hardship. 
Officers and men have been without a change of cloth- 
incf during all that time ; that, with the dust and heat 
and want of water, made it almost intolerable. I have 
seen men and mules and horses rush frantically to the 
pond, all plunge in, and drink indiscriminately. We 
longed for the pure streams of Pennsylvania, and thought 
of waters we would there never think of drinking, which 
we would now consider a luxury. Saturday, the first 





MiNOT R. Phillips, Co. I. 



J. Frank Foster, Co. I. 





Corp. Albert R. Wheeler, Co. I. 



Joseph W. Pierce, Co. I. 



1863.] THE MISSISSIPPI CAMPAIGN. 289 

day of the fight, there was quite a number of the troops 
that were going into position that sufl^ered from sun- 
stroke, especially of the Thirty-fifth Massachusetts and 
Eleventh New Hampshire. 

We received orders to move, on our return from Jack- 
son, at four o'clock on Sunday, the 19th; but as the 
First division, under General Welch, had been up the 
railroad, towards Memphis, some eleven miles, destroy- 
ing it, and had fust returned about that time, at his 
request the march was deferred until morning, as General 
Parke desired the whole corps to move together. 

The next morning the whole corps moved about five 
o'clock. The roads were deep with mud, the sun 
intensely hot, and water scarce, yet we were pushed 
on with terrible, relentless earnestness, until we had 
made about twelve miles by ten o'clock. We rested 
until about four o'clock in the afternoon, when we took 
the road towards Brownsville, marching until eleven 
o'clock at night, and having made twenty-two miles 
during the day. The Second division coming into camp 
at that time, there was no one to show where water was 
to be got, and the tired men, after hunting around in the 
dark for some time, went to bed, wet with sweat, and 
without cofiee. The evening was very pleasant, and 
this road, not having been travelled so much, was easy 
going, but we were so much crippled by the morning's 
work that it was little else than torture. The next morn- 
ing we were roused between three and four o'clock. 
Some few had been able to find water, but, without hav- 
ing time to make coffee, were urged on with empty, 
turning stomachs, and dry, parched throats, the Second 
division taking the lead. Four miles brought us to 
Brownsville, a village of a dozen houses. Along the 

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290 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [July, 

road were fine orchards of unripe peaches, and fields 
of watermelons and citrons scarcely ripe, which were 
snatched and devoured as the men went along. Water- 
melons, anyways near ripe, were delicious to their thirsty 
throats. So they dragged themselves along until ten 
o'clock, making ten or twelve miles. 

On the way up to Jackson, each company seized a 
mule or horse, and used it for a water-carrier. The 
canteens were strung together over its back, and 
would be trotted oft' to some well or pond to be filled. 
This was an admirable arrangement ; but to support 
such marching took more than ordinary strength, and 
water was not sufficient to renovate bodies that wanted 
food and the usual stimulant of coffee. Along with us 
the butchers drove a large herd of cattle, of all ages, 
sexes, sizes, and conditions, which were butchered as 
occasion offered ; but men would have given a whole 
beef for a side of bacon. There was scarcely salt 
enough to make it fit for the palate, and, driven along 
steadily all day without water, their meat was as dry 
and sapless as the men themselves. The order of march 
was, ordinarily, to march until ten o'clock, rest, and 
resume the march at four o'clock in the afternoon. This 
day the order was changed, and we started at three 
o'clock. The road lay through a long stretch of hilly 
country, bare and open. The sun poured down its 
fiercest rays, and we marched an hour without rest at 
the outstart. Men fell out by the scores ; numbers fell 
down with sunstroke, — in some instances dying immedi- 
ately, others giving the most curious exhibitions of mad- 
ness, snapping and biting like dogs, kicking like horses, 
and taking three or four men to keep them in the wagons 
or ambulances. Regiments retained but a skeleton of 



1863.] THE MISSISSIPPI CAMPAIGN. 29I 

their organizations, and the roads were full of stragglers 
from them all. 

Regiments that had campaigned in North Carolina 
and Virginia, South Carolina and Maryland, were 
demoralized. Men never known to have failed in the 
hardest trials had to give way here, many with a shame 
and mortification that was painful to witness, and which 
none but an old soldier with the soldier's pride can 
appreciate, and which, when once done, like the yield- 
ing to the first temptation in crime, leads to ruin. The 
night of the second day we came within two miles of 
the Big Black, near, I think. Messenger's Ford — at an}^ 
rate it is now called Sherman's bridge, and the way to 
it lies through miles and miles of corn-fields on either 
side of the river. Here were springs of delicious water. 
Oh, what a luxury ! Here we laid by until the next 
day at four o'clock, beneath the shades of these mag- 
nificent magnolias and wide-spreading beech. 

When we came to the Big Black a most furious rain 
came down — so sudden it seemed like throwing a bucket 
of water on you. Then the dusty roads became tough 
as mortar-beds, and it was easiest to pull off the shoes 
and go it barefoot — as many men and officers did. Thus 
we plod on until eleven, coming within a mile or less of 
our camp which we left on the 4th of July, and laid 
down in the mud to snatch the few brief moments of 
rest the chills and the vermin and the red ants would 
give you ; blest if you have not the toothache, aching 
bones, skinned and blistered feet, and galled legs, the 
latter the intensest torture of marching in a hot climate. 

It was like reaching home to get to our camp, undis- 
turbed as it had been since we left, to have a bath, and 
fling our dirty, rotten clothes away. 



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292 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [August, 

After a two weeks stay at this point marching orders 
were received, and the regiment again boarded a river 
boat and started down the Yazoo river. The next two 
weeks were full of never-to-be-forgotten horror. The 
boat was over-crowded, and with the hot sun and 
drenching rain alternately beating down on the unpro- 
tected men, disease and death made heavy inroads on 
their number before the journey up the Mississippi was 
tinished. 

The boat arrived at Cairo, 111., August 16, and the 
next night, closel}' packed in freight cars, the regiment 
started for Cincinnati, which was reached about noon on 
the 20th. Those who were able — and they were few 
indeed — marched through the city, and crossing to the 
Kentucky side of the river, went into camp. Orders to 
move came on the 22d, and on the following day the 
able-bodied marched to the depot, and the sick, who 
outnumbered the well, were carried in ambulances. 
Once more they were packed into the hot, close cars, 
and having journeyed as far as Nicholasville, gladly 
disembarked and went into quarters. 

The regiment rested at Nicholasville until September 
9, when, head-quarters having been established at Paris, 
the sick were removed to the temporary hospital, and 
those who were able to do duty were stationed in block- 
houses along the line of the Kentucky Central railroad 
to serve as guards. It was fortunate for the men that 
only this light duty was required of them, for it is hard 
to conceive of the pitable condition to which the regi- 
ment had been reduced by disease and death. 

At the formal inspection of the regiment about the 
middle of October, the inspector-general made a return 
of only ninety-three enlisted men fit for active service. 



1863.] THE MISSISSIPPI CAMPAIGN. 293 

Think what this statement means ! Only fourteen 
months since the regiment left Concord with a thou- 
sand men in the ranks, and now less than a hundred 
are available for action. One can scarcely realize the 
terrible sufferings endured by these men from the time 
they left Kentucky in the early summer until their 
return in the autumn. The outlines of their journey- 
in gs have been briefly sketched, but the few diaries 
tiiat were kept during that fatal campaign tell a story 
that is only too realistic in its detail. 



VICKSBURG, JACKSON, AND BACK TO OLD KENTUCKY. 

All the long hours of Sunday, June 14, — the first day 
in Louisiana — the men listened to the low, thunderous 
booming of the distant mortars, and when darkness set- 
tled down upon them could still trace the path of each 
messenger of destruction from the mortar's mouth to the 
place of bursting by the line of fire issuing from the 
burning fuse. Soon after daybreak on the 15th the 
regiment was ordered across, by the new corduroy 
road, to the south side of Young's Point, and there 
stacked arms and lay waiting to be taken over the 
river, a part of the division having been transported 
and landed below the city. About two in the after- 
noon word was received for the regiment to remain 
where it was during the night, but as the ground 
thereabouts was very marshy, and promised abundant 
occupation in the killing of the black snakes that every- 
where abounded, the men were not sorry when a later 
order sent them back to the morning's camp. 

For some reason the plan of operations was changed 
that night, and the next morning the regiment boarded 



294 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [June, 

the steamer Afmcnta, and started up the Yazoo river. 
The channel of the river was deep and narrow, and the 
sluggish stream, black and filthy from decaying vege- 
table matter, richly deserved its name of " Poison 
Water." The weather was hot and sultr}', and the 
only protection from the burning sun in the middle of 
the day was by lying on the deck under a bit of canvas. 
Late in the afternoon a heavy shower came on, and when 
the boat arrived at Snyder's Bluff it was thought best 
not to attempt the landing of the troops that night. 
When, soon after dawn, they did disembark, it was to 
find the mud six inches deep on shore. Breakfast was 
eaten near the landing, and then the regiment moved 
back about two miles, to the vicinity of Milldale. 

The country about them, though destitute of high 
hills, was very uneven, being cut up in every direc- 
tion by ravines worn out in the soft soil by the action 
of the water. The vegetation was rank and dense, 
the ground being covered for the most part either with 
forests or a thick jungle of cane-brakes and bushes. 
The camp was on a little knoll close by the bed of a 
small stream, but the water was both warm and tainted, 
while that from the near-by springs was strongly impreg- 
nated with sulphur. The camp-ground had previousl}' 
been occupied by both Confederate and Union troops, 
and was not in the most cleanly condition imaginable, 
but the regiment's experience of Falmouth mud had 
taught them something of camp architecture, and as 
they set to work with a will the camp soon presented a 
comfortable appearance. 

This position was about ten miles up the Yazoo river, 
and nearly the same distance in the rear of Vicksburg. 
It had been taken from the Confederates some time in 



1863.] THE MISSISSIPPI CAMPAIGN. 295 

■ May, and was strongly fortified with rifle-pits and forts 
for mounting siege guns. Joe Johnston's arm}-, which 
now had its head-quarters at Jackson, must pierce this 
line of works before it could attack Grant's army in the 
rear, with the hope of succoring Pemberton, shut up in 
the besieged city. For a month he had been hemmed 
in, and as Grant's army held the river both above and 
below the town, and every avenue of escape was guarded 
by fixed batteries and gunboats, the prospect was certain 
of a speedy and unconditional fall of the city without 
any active offensive operations. 

Heavy cannonading from the batteries along the river 
could be heard at all hours. These guns were capable 
of throwing hundred-pound shells, and the explosion of 
such huge missiles over the doomed city was terrible in 
its effectiveness, while the women and children remained 
in the cellars of the houses, not daring to risk their lives 
in any more exposed position. Add to this constant 
danger the insufficient supply of food now remaining in 
the city, and it will be seen that it was only a question 
of time when the end must come. 

For several days now the Ninth New Hampshire was 
kept busily at work strengthening the defences and doing 
picket duty, but at five o'clock in the afternoon of the 
22d orders were received to be ready to march in an 
hour with three days rations. It was only a little past 
the hour when the start was made, and after marching 
about five miles the regiment bivouacked for the night 
in a sandy field. The march towards the Big Black 
was continued the next morning without stopping to 
make coffee, for the weather was exceedingly warm, 
and short marches and long halts were the rule in the 
heat of the day. It was not long before the troops came 



296 NINTH ^^EW HAMPSHIRE. [June, 

across some trees which had been felled in such a man- 
ner as to make the road practically impassable, while 
a little farther on a bridge was found to be partially 
destroyed. The pioneer corps were left behind to clear 
the way for the batteries, and the remaining troops 
pushed on until noon, and then bivouacked for the 
night. 

Reveille was sounded at dawn, and the men pro- 
ceeded as fast as was possible over the uneven road. 
When eight miles had been covered all baggage was 
left behind under guard, and a close reconnoissance 
was begun, for they were now nearing the enemy's 
outposts. They had not gone very far before several 
Confederate scouts were seen, and the order to return 
was at once given. The place where the baggage had 
been left was soon reached, and the troops quickly 
made their way back to the camp where they had spent 
the night, only stopping now and then to impede in 
their turn any attempted advance of the Confederate 
forces. It was nearly midnight when they reached 
camp, and the men were greatly fatigued, but it con- 
soled them somewhat when they learned later on that 
they had just missed running onto a large force of Con- 
federate cavalry. This was one of the severest marches 
and day's work in the history of the regiment. The 
day had been extremely hot, the men were utterly 
exhausted, and as they turned into the old camp at 
that late hour. Colonel Titus's voice was most welcome 
as he said, — " Take care of yourselves as well as you 
can, boys. God bless you !" 

Camp was changed two or three times during the 
next ten days, and the men were alternately employed 
on the defences and in doing picket duty. In building 



1863.] THE MISSISSIPPI CAMPAIGN. 297 

the fortifications everything available was made use of, 
whether it belonged to friend or foe. Sometimes the 
planter would try to beg off when the wagons would 
come for the cotton, claiming that he was a Union man, 
but the bales would be tumbled in just the same. One 
old fellow who had lost his cotton as well as nearly 
everything eatable on the place, came to Colonel Titus, 
and with tears in his eyes told him that he had only a 
little corn left, and that the soldiers were taking that. 
The colonel told him to put his corn in the house, and 
he would guarantee that no one should molest it. So 
the man saved his corn if he did n't his bacon. Black- 
berries were plenty everywhere, and enough for all. 
They were the largest and most luscious ever seen, and 
were eaten in great quantities by the men, for they 
were a most welcome relief from hard-tack and bacon. 
The weather was terribly hot, and it was tedious 
waiting, but the hope of a bloodless victory kept the 
men in good spirits. On the evening of July 3 it was 
rumored about the camp that Pemberton was to surren- 
der Vicksburg on the National holiday, and a despatch 
to General Griffin, early in the morning of the 4th, noti- 
fied him that the surrender would be made at nine 
o'clock, and that he was to hold his brigade in readiness 
to march at a moment's notice. The brigade did not 
enter the city, but a letter of Adjutant Chandler's shows 
how he and a few others managed to be " in at the 
death." 

"Before daylight on the morning of the 4th, Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel Babbitt, Captains Blaisdell and Alexan- 
der, and I started from camp for Vicksburg. When we 
reached our outer works we found a flag of truce flying, 
and learned that there was a suspension, and negotia- 



298 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [July, 

tions which might result in the capitulation of the place. 
This was about 7 a. m. The fact grew more and more 
apparent that something was going to happen, and we 
spent an hour examining our extensive earthworks 
(now, however, of little interest to us), and also visited 
the Eighth Illinois, where we learned that the surrender 
was decided upon, and that Logan's division of McPher- 
son's corps would enter the city at about ten o'clock. 

"We attached ourselves to the staff of that regiment, 
and had the high honor and extreme happiness of enter- 
ing Vicksburg with the first brigade which passed in. 
You may depend upon this, that it was indeed a glorious 
Fourth for us. We went in with the bands playing 
' Star Spangled Banner,' and the drums and fifes play- 
ing ' Yankee Doodle ' and ' Dixie,' with all the Secesh 
looking at us with a stupid stare. We spent five or six 
hours in the city, watered our horses in the Mississippi 
river in the centre of the town, and strolled around at 
our leisure. The Stars and Stripes have fluttered over 
the court-house since that time, and our victory is 
complete. 

"Near 20,000 rebels I saw stack their arms outside 
their works and march off. We have near 30,000 pris- 
oners, 40,000 stand of small arms, and over 100 pieces 
of artillery. Their river batteries comprise twenty- 
seven large siege guns. You may suppose our happi- 
ness was complete, and here comes the other side of our 
experience. We got back to our camp, more dead than 
alive from heat and fatigue, at eleven o'clock that night 
— only to find that our regiment had moved that day in 
the direction of Jackson. We started at daylight in 
pursuit. Came up about noon, and kept on with the 
regiment." 



1863.] THE MISSISSIPPI CAMPAIGN. 299 

July 4 orders were received to be ready to march at 
noon. Through clouds of suffocating dust, and under a 
scorching sun, the march to the Big Black river was 
made, and several of the men fell by the way from sun- 
stroke. On reaching the river it was found that a tem- 
porary bridge had been thrown across, and the infantry 
rested while the battery of twenty-pound guns was slowly 
and carefully drawn over the frail structure. The bridge 
was a weak affair at best, and just as the last caissons 
were crossing the whole thing toppled over into the 
deep, muddy stream. 

The pioneer corps was at once set to work building a 
raft, and as it was now nearly sundown the men were 
ordered to get what sleep they could in the mean time. 
The halt had been made in a large corn-field, and after 
making coffee the men prepared for a comfortable nap. 
Some lay down between the corn rows upon the ground ; 
some of the more fastidious improvised corn-stalk mat- 
tresses ; and a few, who wanted a good, cool sleep, 
stripped off their clothes and used them for a bed. 

Scarcely had the sun set when huge, black clouds 
began to mount up the western sky, soon overspreading 
the whole heavens, and a deluging thunder-shower 
began. The almost incessant flashes of lightning were 
of chalky whiteness, the thunder rolled and crashed, 
and the rain literally poured down in torrents. The 
sleepers awoke to find themselves floating in bath-tubs 
between the corn rows, and those who had removed their 
clothing had the pleasure of a shower-bath while making 
their toilet. Some tried to brave it out, but one after 
another they came to a vertical position — the most con- 
venient for shedding water — and thus remained awaiting 
the order to march, varying the monotony by drawing 



300 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [July, 

either foot out of the yielding paste into which it was 
rapidly sinking, only to set it in a new and not more 
stable footing and repeat the operation with the other. 

About midnight the raft was reported to be ready, and 
the men made their way to the river through a perfect 
slough of mud, with every particle of clothing and lug- 
gage drenched and dripping and the storm still continu- 
ing in all its fury. The raft, intended for twenty, was 
found on trial to be capable of carrying only seven or 
eight. Large fires of rails were built on both sides of 
the river, and threw their weird glare over the turbid, 
swollen stream. A party of men stood on either shore, 
and with a rope attached to each end of the raft pulled 
it forward and backward once in about five minutes, 
while the thunder and lightning, rain and darkness, the 
pitchy blackness of the river, and the dead horses 
anchored to the fallen caissons and just visible as they 
rose and fell with the surging water, combined to form a 
ghostly scene which few of those who beheld it will ever 
forget. The opposite bank of the river was high and 
steep, the clay as yielding as lard, and by the time the 
men in their drenched garments had clawed and crawled 
their way to the top they seemed verily to have " come 
up from wallowing in the mire." 

Once across the river blankets and clothing were 
quickly dried at the blazing fires, coffee was made, a 
pig was shot and roasted, and at six o'clock the march 
was renewed. The first part of the route was through 
muddy bottom lands, and with parboiled feet and soaked 
shoes it was both hard and heavy marching. Coming 
down the Mississippi the soldiers had watched the men 
heaving the deep-sea lead and calling out " Twain 
two — twain four — no bottom," and once that forenoon, as 



1863.] THE MISSISSIPPI CAMPAIGN. 30 1 

they waded through a stream running across the road, 
some one sung out "Twain two — twain four — no 
bottom,"' and it went along the whole line of the regi- 
ment. Towards noon higher ground was reached, and 
the way was less difficult. The shower of the previous 
night proved to be a blessing in one respect, for no 
water could be obtained except that dipped from the 
pools by the roadside ; it was very roily — perfectly yel- 
low^, in fact, — but in the absence of better could be 
swallowed. 

During the forenoon the mansion of Joe Davis, brother 
of Jefferson Davis, was passed. It had been set on fire 
by the cavalry, and was in full blaze. Near where the 
regiment halted at noon some of the men found the 
library of Jeff" Davis hidden in the attic of an old log- 
house, and among other things one man secured a gold- 
headed cane presented to Davis by President Pierce 
when the former was secretar}^ of war. Here they 
rested and dried their clothing till nearly four in the 
afternoon, and then moved on a few miles and encamped 
near a church. The seats were movable benches, and 
the men brought them out and slept on " bedsteads" that 
night. Only dry rations — hard-tack, sugar, and 
coffee — and fresh beef were available on the march, and 
the meat — as the cattle were killed after being driven all 
day, and were cooked as soon as bled, for the next 
morning's breakfast, was productive of sudden attacks 
of cholera and the like. 

The march was continued on the 6th. again under the 
burning sun, until so many fell to the ground from 
exhaustion that a halt was ordered and coffee was made. 
When the brigade was ready to move the Ninth was sent 
in advance to prevent house-burning. It was late at 



302 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [July, 

night when the regiment turned into some woods beside 
the road and bivouacked. So entirely worn out were the 
men that most of them lay down without pitching a tent 
or even spreading a blanket. It was only a brief inter- 
val before the reveille sounded, and after a hasty and 
scanty breakfast the regiment advanced three or four 
miles and halted near the supply train. Rations were 
drawn, coflee made, and then on again until night, when 
guns were loaded and the men slept on their arms. 

The four days march had brought them to the vicinity 
of Jackson, where the enemy were strongly entrenched. 
The first day they lay still, but on the second were sent 
to the front at daylight as skirmishers. Slowly the hours 
wore away, and when night came on the pitchy darkness 
in the thick woods was beyond conception. The Ninth 
held the front, but it was so dark that not even the sky 
could be seen, and no man's heart was so strong that it 
did not throb a little faster at the thought of the invisible 
foe. 

About midnight a scouting party attempted to break 
through the lines, and made a most desperately bold 
push. They fired several times, and then rushed upon 
the pickets with bayonets and clubbed muskets. One 
man was run through while on his post, and instantly 
killed ; another was stabbed and taken prisoner, but man- 
aged to escape and crawl back to the Union lines. The 
reserves turned out, but in tiie darkness friend and foe 
were alike indistinguishable, and they could only wait 
anxiously for daylight. When at last the day dawned it 
was found that only two men had been wounded and one 
killed, and the line was unbroken. Captain Alexander 
of Company I, which guarded the left of the line, had 
been shot in the iiip, and died ten days later. As soon 



,S63.] THE MISSISSIPPI CAMPAIGN. 303 

as the regiment was relieved it was ordered to the rear 
to rest. In regard to the sad affair of the accidental 
wounding of Captain Alexander, Sergt. N. T. Button 
writes as follows : 

"Captain Alexander was officer of the picket line, the 
orders to which were to fire without challenging. In 
the extreme pitchy darkness, the captain, in making his 
rounds, went outside the line and approached it from the 
front. The pickets heard his steps and fired. He called 
out to them his. name, but they continued to be wary 
of the enemy ; thought it was a rebel who had somehow 
caught his name and was using it to get near the line, so 
fired again, and fatally wounded the man they loved 
most and for whom any man of them would willingly 
have given his life. Captain Alexander was much 
beloved by all, was one of the best officers in the regi- 
ment, and his untimely death saddened every heart." 

The nicrht was a terrible one for all. The intense 
blackness of the darkness no words can describe ; the 
dread of the unseen foe in front was greatly increased by 
it; the man who was bayoneted on his post probably 
knew not that his foe was near him until he felt the 
bayonet thrust through his body, and uttered a shriek 
that resounded through the dark and silent woods with 
an awful sound and filled every mind whh terror. All 
were glad when the morning light came. 

That morning Johnston evacuated the city. His artill- 
ery opened furiously in the early morning, and the pick- 
ets were sharper than usual in their fire, but it was all a 
cover for the fleeing host. The Union forces were not 
long in taking possession of the city, and what the Con- 
federates had spared soon littered the streets, though it 



304 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [July, 

was too soon after the capture of Vicksburg for the men 
to have much zest in the spoiling. One fellow, however, 
got more than he wanted. Corporal J. S. Stewart 
("Tappy") of Company E, with others, was roaming 
about the city to see or find something of interest, when 
a magazine exploded under or near him and tossed him 
into the air. His hair, eyebrows, and beard were singed 
off, and he was burned quite badly. "Tappy" was 
always a cheerful soul, wont to look on the bright side of 
things, and in an ambulance on the way back, with ban- 
daged eyes and blistered face and hands, was chuckling 
over his comrades in the fact that he could ride while 
they had to " peg" it. 

No effort was made to hold the city after the railroads 
running north and south had been eft'ectually destroyed, 
and the troops were soon ordered back to the first camp 
they had occupied on the Yazoo river. The Mississippi 
was fairly open, and with Vicksburg as a depot for sup- 
plies the Union forces could afford to keep quiet while 
the hot weather lasted. On the way back the regiment 
passed another night in the corn-field by the Big Black, 
and were again routed out at midnight, but this time the 
affair had a comical side. The men were greatly 
fatigued, and after a hearty supper of roast corn every- 
body was ready for a good night's rest. The camp had 
been quiet for some time, when suddenly from the rear 
of the brigade there came an unearthly yell, just like- the 
one the man who was bayoneted had given a few nights 
before, which was quickly followed by a series of shouts 
and outcries all along the line. The men were on their 
feet in an instant, and the officers gave the command to 
fall in, for the first thought was that the enemy had come 
upon them unawares ; but here is where the fun came in. 





Corp. Minot Ellis, Co. I. 



John E. Ellis, Co. I. 





William W. Ross, Co. I. 



James C. Whittle, Co. I. 



1S63.] THE MISSISSIPPI CAMPAIGN. 305 

The man who gave the first alarm had been awakened 
by something stepping on him, but the horse which he 
thought he saw turned out to be nothing more formida- 
ble than a big black pig, who, more frightened by the 
uproar than the man was, scampered down the lines, 
upsetting gun-stacks and rousing the weary sleepers in 
«very direction. So much for the general scene, but 
Captain Copp is responsible for the following side-light : 

" For the first time in a month I thought it safe to take 
my clothes off' for the night, and rolling myself nicely up 
in a blanket on a pile of corn-stalks, I was soon sound 
asleep. The alarm found me minus everything but a 
shirt, but without waiting to clothe myself I grabbed my 
sword and revolver and sprang to the colors and gave 
the order to fall in. The boys have n't forgotten my pre- 
dicament to this day ; and that night, long after every- 
body was supposed to be asleep, every once in a while 
there would burst upon the air an uproarious ' Ha, ha !'" 

A week slipped away in the camp on the Yazoo, and 
then the Ninth corps was ordered back to Cincinnati, but 
was obliged to wait for means of transportation. The 
order had come none too soon, for what with the intense 
lieat, the scanty supply of proper food, and the impurity 
of the water, the men began to feel that they were living 
in solemn times, for death made daily inroads upon their 
number. August i. Colonel Titus, who had stuck to his 
post despite his intense sufferings from chronic diarrhea 
during the last two months, was granted a twenty days 
furlough, and set out for Cincinnati. Those who were 
left behind could only hope for a speedy deliverance from 
5uch unwholesome surroundings. 

The following morning the regiment was sent on 

XX 



3o6 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [Augusts 

picket duty to the road leading to Yazoo Cit}', and for 
the first time in its history, when on such duty, the colors 
were taken along. This road, was near the northern 
limit of Haines's Bluft', and commanded a magnificent 
view of the surrounding country. On the left lay the 
frowning fortifications that capped the bluff; stretching 
away to the right were the broad fields of a princely 
cotton plantation ; at the foot of the bluff, creeping slug- 
gishly along, as if reluctant to yield itself to the swift 
flow of the mighty river, was the dark-hued "Poison 
Water;" and be3^ond this, and far away to the north, 
south, and west, a vast and apparently unbroken expanse 
of primeval forest. Like a mighty sea of green it 
seemed, spread out over the level bottom lands of the 
Mississippi valley, the only sign of life the curling smoke 
from the steamers that were constantly winding their 
way along the tortuous course of the "Father of 
Waters." 

At the dress parade held in front of General Griffin's 
head-quarters August 4, the troops had the pleasure of 
listening to a complimentary order from General Grant, 
in which it was requested that the words " Vicksburg"^ 
and "Jackson" be inscribed upon the banners of the 
Ninth Army corps. It was a fitting recognition of the 
heroic endurance of sufferings beside which death on. 
the field of battle could have no terrors. An order from 
General Parke, in regard to embarking, was also read, 
but to thousands of sick and dying men the relief would 
come too late. 

The details of that voyage up the Mississippi, the 
transfer to the freight cars, in which the sick and well 
must take their chances, like cattle, of coming out alive 
at the end of the journey, the long, wearisome ride 



1863.] THE MISSISSIPPI CAMPAIGN. 307 

before the final disembarkation at Nicholasville, Ky., 
are almost too horrible tor belief, though the story must 
be told for a proper appreciation of the freedom that cost 
so dearly. 

How slowly those August days dragged out their 
tedious length ! When, about noon of the 8th, the order 
was given to the Ninth New Hampshire to "pack up," 
the camp was like a swarm of bees suddenly disturbed. 
The men were not burdened with an extraordinary 
amount of clothing, and the filling of their haversacks 
or " grub bags" was the chief item of preparation for 
the journey. Would you like to know how a soldier 
fares on a trip like this ? One of Captain Robinson's 
letters furnishes the details: "First, we pack it about 
two thirds full of hard-tack, then goes in the meat bag. 
I have in mine now a little fried pork and two or three 
pounds of raw pork or bacon. Then come the coffee 
and sugar bags, salt bag, pepper bag, bottle of Jamaica 
ginger, knife, fork, and spoon, and a variety of articles, 
according to the aesthetic taste of the owner. As I had 
a little flour on hand, I made it into doughnuts." 

The first of the month all the sick had been sent up 
the river on hospital boats, though so man}- had fallen ill 
since that time that they now equalled if they did not 
outnumber the well, and it was a merciful Providence 
that hid the future from them all. With grim satire the 
band struck up a lively tune for the march to the land- 
ing, those who were able to walk did so, and the ambu- 
lances with the sick brought up the rear. So suddenly 
did the attacks of swamp fever come on that by the time 
the landing was reached Sergeant Pulsifer of Company E 
had been taken so violently ill that he fell to the ground 
and was carried on board by his comrades. 



308 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [August, 

To their dismay the men found that the entire brigade 
was to be transported in one small boat, the David 
Tatum. All the officers were quartered on the middle 
or cabin deck, occupying every berth and filling the 
cabin with mattresses at night. Outside the cabin, and 
fore and aft, the sick were crowded as thick as they 
could lie. The Sixth New Hampshire occupied the 
lower deck, together with all the horses and baggage 
belonging to the brigade. On the hurricane deck were 
the Seventh Rhode Island and the Ninth New Hamp- 
shire, with no protection against the blistering sun or 
the rain, save where some were so located that they 
could stretch a tent cloth across the iron rods reaching 
from the deck to the smoke-stacks. 

The placard " Standing-room only" might have been 
truthfully displayed, for so crowded was the boat that 
the men were obliged to take turns in lying down to rest, 
for sleep under such conditions was well nigh impossi- 
ble. It was nearly dark when the steamer was loosed 
from her moorings and the journey down the Yazoo 
begun. It was an ominous beginning, for she had pro- 
ceeded only a few miles when the rudder broke, and the 
captain was obliged to " tie up" for the remainder of the 
nicrht. 

There was a silver lining to this cloud, however, for 
the men were allowed to go on shore and make coffee, 
and not a few improved the opportunity to spread their 
blankets for a nap. Close by the shore to which the 
packet was tied was an old camping-ground, which had 
been used in turn b}' the Confederates, the Federals, and 
the contrabands. The last inhabitants had evidently 
been visited by a pestilence and had fled, for the dilapi- 
dated tents were still standing, and unburied corpses of 



1863.] THE MISSISSIPPI CAMPAIGN. 309 

both sexes lay upon the ground. It was late in the 
afternoon of the following day before the repairs were 
finished, and the arrival of the steamer Yankee from 
Vicksburg was hailed with delight by the weary, rest- 
less soldiers. Qiiarterm aster Moses had gone overland 
to Vicksburg and reported the situation, in consequence 
of which the steamer had been sent up. She was lashed 
alongside the Tahmi, the crowded decks were relieved 
of a portion of their human freight, and again they were 
steaming down the " river of death." 

Before the Mississippi was reached greedy death had 
claimed a victim. At the mouth of the Yazoo the 
steamer stopped to coal up, and while this was going 
on some soldiers went ashore, and by the light of a 
dimly burning lantern hollowed out a grave for their 
dead comrade ; then the corpse, wrapped in the only 
shroud a soldier knows, — a blanket — was taken on 
shore in a skiff and placed in its lonely grave, where 
the footfall of friend or foe would never break the soli- 
tude. Nothing more gloomy or depressing could be 
imagined ; — the large proportion of sick on board the 
boat, the thick murkiness of the night, the deep, black 
waters of the slowly rolling river, the dense forests 
whose heavy foliage and drooping festoons of moss turn 
even daylight into darkness, — the whole scene revealed 
by the dim light of the lanterns was weird and ghastly. 

At four o'clock on the morning of the loth the steamer 
entered the Mississippi, and it was a grand sight to watch 
the prow forcing its way northward against the turbulent 
waters. Just before sunrise another corpse was carried 
below — and the journey but just begun ! Another sad 
incident of the morning was the falling overboard of 
James Kingsley of Company K, from the upper deck : 



3 1 NINTH NE W HAMPSHIRE. [August, 

SO swift was the current that before a boat could be low- 
ered he was lost to sight. The steamer touched shore 
at a negro encampment about noon, and the body of the 
soldier who had died in the early morning was carried 
ashore for burial. Chaplain Gushee read the service 
for the dead. 

The following day there were two deaths before noon, 
and the men began to look at each other with solemnly 
questioning faces, for who could tell whose turn would 
come next. The boat reached Napoleon, Ark., at dark, 
and came to anchor just in season to get the full force 
of a terrific thunder-shower. Those on the upper deck 
were at the mercy of the elements, and even the sick on 
the middle deck were completely drenched. At mid- 
night the dead were taken ashore and laid to rest in the 
depths of the forest, amid the low rumbling of the now 
distant thunder and the fitful gleaming of the lightning. 

The steamer was speeding steadily on its way the 
next forenoon, when at some distance ahead signals 
were displayed on the shore. As the boat drew nearer, 
it was seen that they were made by a contraband, who, 
with his wife and a dozen little darkies, was begging 
pitifully to be taken aboard. It was impossible to do 
so in the present crowded condition, and as the steamer 
passed them unheeding, and they turned and went back 
into the forest, one could imagine their bitter disappoint- 
ment, their sinking of heart, their lost hope of freedom. 
Let freeborn men boast of the advantages of slaver}^ 
but no ranting Abolitionist, with all his exaggerations, 
could ever depict half of its evils and sorrows. 

So the days and nights wore away. The number of 
sick increased daily, and what with the filth, — for in such 
close quarters neatness was impossible — the swarms of 



1863.] THE MISSISSIPPI CAMPAIGN. 311 

vermin, and the lack of proper food — coffee soaked in 
hot water from the engine and raw pork and hard-tack 
being the diet for sick and well alike — it is no wonder 
the men lost heart, and longed for the shore and any 
camp, however poor. 

Late in the afternoon of the 13th the bluffs of Memphis 
hove in sight, and as the steamer neared the landing 
women could be seen flocking to the levee, ready to 
barter the contents of their well filled baskets for the 
soldier-boys' scanty pennies. Before a plank could be 
put out the boys had leaped ashore like squirrels, and 
trade was decidedly lively for a time. There was no 
haggling over prices, if only one had money enough to 
buy what fancy or appetite first lighted upon. Presently, 
without any warning, the boat pushed oft^, and dropped 
down stream some two miles to coal up ; and as she did 
not return till morning, those ashore spent the night 
where they could best find accommodation, which in 
most cases was the bare planks of the wharf. 

Many of the weary sleepers awakened the next morn- 
ing to find that their over-night purchases had myste- 
riously disappeared. No one considered it worth while, 
however, to waste breath in complaining or strength in 
searching for the lost treasures ; they simply awaited a 
chance to " get even." The steamer returned at day- 
break, and many of the very sick, about a dozen of the 
Ninth men among the number, were taken ashore and 
carried to the hospital, with small prospect that any of 
them would ever return to their comrades. By seven 
o'clock Memphis had been left behind, and by sunset 
the next day the steamer was rounding Point Pleasant, 
a few miles below Island No. 10. 

Only a week had elapsed since they had bidden fare- 



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12 NIXTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [August 



well to the camp on the Yazoo river, yet to men shut up 
in a charnel-boat, with death staring them constantly in 
the face, it seemed like ages. Sick men were stretched 
out all over the boat, from pilot house to coal bunks, and 
not enough well men were left to care for them, though 
it was little enough that could be done to relieve their 
sufferings. 

At one o'clock in the afternoon of Sunday, August i6, 
the boat reached Cairo, 111. Company E could muster 
just seven able-bodied men, and these were all detailed 
to assist in unloading the baggage. Before night not a 
man that could crawl but managed to get ashore : the 
bare ground seemed so clean in comparison with the 
filthy, lousy craft where they had been nested like pigs. 

Several of the officers came up the river on the hospi- 
tal boat Atlantic. The accommodations for the sick 
were vastly superior to those on the David Tattcm, yet 
every day at sunset the boat would be drawn up to the 
bank of the river, and from twenty to thirty bodies 
would be taken ashore for burial. This was in accord- 
ance with the orders from the medical department, 
which would not allow burials at any other time of 
day. Lieut. C. D. Copp and Commissary Sergeant 
Hanson were transferred to the Atlantic just before 
Cairo was reached. 

On the arrival of the boat at Cincinnati, Major Everett, 
who was very ill with congestive chills, was taken to the 
Gibson House by Lieutenant Mason. The lieutenant 
arranged with the proprietor of the hotel for the care of 
the major, but became ill himself immediately afterwards 
and was confined to his bed at the time of the major's 
death, which occurred a few days later. Major Ever- 
ett's body was embalmed and sent to his home in New 



1863.] THE MISSISSIPPI CAMPAIGN. 313 

London by the proprietor of the hotel, who was a New 
Hampshire man. 

Lieutenant Sprague of Company F was carried to the 
Burnett House, and from there to the hospital, dying 
that same night. Lieut. C. W. Wilcox was given a 
twenty days leave of absence, and accompanied the 
remains of Lieutenant Sprague to his home in Win- 
chester, w^here he was buried with Masonic honors. 
Lieutenant-Colonel Babbitt was taken to the Spencer 
House, where he was cared for by Colonel Titus. 

On the 17th another delegation of the sick had been 
transferred to the hospital boat and sent up the Ohio. 
Pulsifer, Bean, Curtis, and Knight from Company E 
were among these, for they were all dangerously ill ; 
but many of the sick so dreaded a separation from the 
regiment that they begged to be left with their com- 
rades, even if it were to die. Late in the evening the 
regiment was ordered to the station. As usual, freight 
cars were the accommodations provided, and into these 
the men were packed, thirty-five in a car. The sick 
were placed on the rough board seats, and the others 
lay on the floor beneath and between them. 

In this manner, parched with thirst and burning with 
fever, they started on the two da3^s journey. The cars 
were stifling in the intense heat, and the scanty supply 
of water rendered the sufferings of the men almost 
intolerable. It was four in the afternoon of the i8th of 
August when the train stopped at Centralia for coflee 
and meat, and " the shoulder-straps took supper at the 
railroad hotel." At Sandoval, a little farther along the 
route, the men disembarked to change cars, but as the 
train had not yet arrived the troops were ordered to biv- 
ouac for the night. 



3 1 4 NINTH NE W HA MPS HI RE. [ A ugust, 

At daylight the cars were again boarded, and all the 
long, hot day the men lay stretched out upon the floor, 
while the train sped swiftly on. Towards night Vin- 
cennes was reached, and with a brief stop here for 
coflfee there was no other break in the monotony of the 
journey until the arrival at Cincinnati, about noon on 
the following day. The well men were marched through 
the city, given a good dinner, and were then sent across 
the river to the camp on the Kentucky side. The sick 
were left at the station to await the arrival of the ambu- 
lances, and reached the camp about dark. As illus- 
trative of the condition of the men as they lay on the 
platform, Corporal Mayo says that even when he saw 
the baggage trucks coming right for him he felt so sick 
that he did n't have vitality enough to draw his feet up 
out of the way. 

The two following incidents are contributed by Ser- 
jeant Dutton : 

" Corporals Elmer Bragg and Charles Day of Com- 
pany E, sick and weary, took their own way through 
the city, and stopped to rest on the steps before the gate 
of a large mansion a little retired from the street. A 
lady approached, asked their names, regiment, where 
they had been, and where they were going ; said the 
house was her home, and asked them to come in and 
rest a while. ' No,' they said, ' we must be going on to 
our regiment.' Then she pressed her invitation with 
the offer of something to eat, and in other ways tried to 
get them to go in. But 'they were not hungry and must 
go on,' the}'^ said. At last she asked, 'Wouldn't you 
like a bath ?' It was just what they did want, and 
gladly accepting, they were soon in her bath-room, from 
which they came out a half hour later feeling like new 



1863.] THE MISSISSIPPI CAMPAIGN. 315 

men. The lady had a nice lunch spread, and now the 
boys were ready for that. Having done full justice to 
this, thev left their ' good Samaritan ' with thanks on 
their lips and abiding gratitude in their hearts. Even 
the rough ways of life are in spots strewed with flowers." 

" On the trip from Cincinnati to Cairo the train passed 
at full speed through Washington, Ind. I was sitting 
in the open door of a freight car when a large and beau- 
tiful bouquet of flowers came into my lap. A piece ot 
paper was tied to it, on which were the words ' Compli- 
ments of Stella and Mattie Lane, Washington, Ind. 
God bless you, boys ! We'll welcome you home, when 
rebels are in the dust.' The flowers faded, but I have 
that slip of paper now. At Milldale I wrote to the 
ladies, thanking them for their kind token. On the 
return from Vicksburg the train stopped at Washington, 
and the ladies of the place were at the train with refresh- 
ments. I asked one if the Misses Lane were there. 
* Why, yes ; they are right here,' she replied, and called 
to them ; but just then the train started, and so that inci- 
dent went no farther." 

It was only a brief respite, though a most welcome 
one, for on the 23d the regiment was ordered to report 
at the station for transportation. The sick were placed 
in separate cars this time, and made up more than half 
of the train. On arriving at Nicholasville the regiment 
went into camp about two miles outside the town, where 
the sick seemed at last to have a chance to recover ; but 
so permeated were they with disease, that any speedy 
improvement was out of the question. Chills and fever 
alternately racked their feeble frames, but they were 
tenderly cared for by their comrades-in-arms. 



3l6 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [September, 

September 9 the sick were transferred to temporary 
hospitals at Paris, Ky., where regimental head-quarters 
were to be established. Twice before the regiment had 
been ordered to move, but surgeons and officers alike 
protested, for if the order had been enforced two thirds 
of the men in camp must have been carried in wagons. 
Colonel Titus and Lieutenant-Colonel Babbitt were on 
the sick-list, Adjutant Chandler was absent on detail, 
Major Everett had died in Cincinnati, and not a single 
commissioned officer was present for duty. But, thank 
God, they were back in old Kentucky once more ! 



CHAPTER X. 

The Movement From Kentucky to Annapolis, and 
AS Far as Bristow Station. 

The only incident that broke the quiet of the stay in 
Kentucky was the expedition to Mount Sterling, early in 
December. During the evening of December 3, Colonel 
Titus received a telegram from General Boyle, com- 
manding the district of Kentucky, announcing a prob- 
able attack by John Morgan's guerrillas at Mount Ster- 
ling, and ordering him to re-enforce the Fortieth Ken- 
tucky cavalry with his command. It was eleven o'clock 
when Colonel Titus, in command of a part of the regi- 
ment, was ready to start. Horses from all the livery 
stables in Paris, and some private horses were taken, as 
well as saddles, and by confiscating everything in the 
shape of horse-flesh that was encountered on the way, 
each man finally bestrode a steed. 

Captain Copp, who was attending a "pahty" that 
evening, had been directed to gather what additional 
men he could and follow as soon as possible, and was on 
the road about an hour later. On the way over Captain 
Copp got considerably alarmed, for the refugees they 
were continually meeting had doleful tales to tell of the 
doings of Morgan and his men. One of the horses gave 
out, and at the next farm-house the captain determined 
to make a swap. As he rode up to the door a woman 
appeared at one of the upper windows, and in answer to 
his inquiries declared there was not a horse on the place. 
In the mean time one of the men made his way to the 



3l8 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [December, 

barn, and there found a good horse. An old man then 
came out, and pleaded that the horse might be left him, 
as it was all that he had to do the farm work. War 
recognizes no necessities but its own, however, and the 
captain took the horse, but promised to return it on his 
way back. 

Arrived within about a mile of Mount Sterling, and 
just as they were rising a hill, the captain discovered a 
picket post ahead. The story told b}'- the refugees was 
that Colonel Titus's command had entered the town, but 
that it had afterwards been surrounded by the raiders, so 
the gallant captain was in just a bit of a quandary. Gath- 
ering his little band closely together, and giving them 
orders to be ready for a charge, he rode boldly on. 
"Who goes there?" came the challenge from the picket. 
"Friends, with the countersign!" returned the captain, 
and the boys got their guns ready. Then came the 
question, "Whose command?" That was the uncertain 
time, but they were in for it now. "Colonel Titus's 
command, from Paris !" was the response, and in return 
a cheerful "All right — come on!" On entering the 
town, the colonel and the rest of the command were 
found quartered at the hotel, except those who were sta- 
tioned on the outposts. The return to Paris was made 
on the 6th. 

December loth the following men were detailed on the 
provost guard : Sergts. George W. McClure, Stacy W. 
Hall; Corps. C. H. Knight, A. R. Wheeler, J. F. 
Evans; Privates G. J. Allen, D. C. Barnard, A. E. Bis- 
sell, H. A. Clement, E. P. Chapman, F. Dennis, J. Duf- 
ney, M. Ellis, J. F. Foster, L. B. Fellows, P. Hunt, P. 
R. Huntoon, B. D. Leighton, S. D. Pearsons, J. Shay,. 
J. Slyfield, L. Smith. , 




Sergt. Henry F. Partridge, Co. I. 



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George J. Allen, Co. I. 





Corp. Marshall P. Wood, Co. I. 



Corp. George C. Willson, Co.I. 



1863.] FROM KENTUCKY TO ANNAPOLIS. 319. 

Saturday, the 19th, a lot of recruits for the Sixth and 
Ninth New Hampshire arrived on the evening train from 
Cincinnati, in charge of Captain Crafts of the Fifth New 
Hampshire and Captain Durgin of the Twelfth. Cap- 
tain Copp was in waiting at the station, with a detail of 
men, and took the newcomers, wiio were a tough-look- 
ing lot, to the court-house, where they were fed and 
quartered for the night. 

January i, 1S64, the Fortieth Kentucky mounted 
infantry arrived at Paris, in response to an order for the 
Ninth New Hampshire to proceed at once to East Ten- 
nessee. During the time the regiment did duty on the 
railroad, the men won the confidence of all the people in 
the vicinity by their manly conduct and their respect for 
the persons and property of the citizens, who became 
much attached to them. But the attachment of the sol- 
diers (and of some of the officers) was even stronger than 
that of the citizens toward them, — that is, in certain 
instances — for several had taken unto themselves wives- 
of the Blue Grass region, and when the regiment finally 
went away many of the men marched to that gay old 
tune "The Girl I Left Behind Me !" 

The new year had opened with a blinding snow-storm, 
and in consequence of the severity of the weather Gen- 
eral Frye telegraphed for the regiment to remain at Paris 
until further orders, which came on the nth. In the 
mean time the citizens of Paris had drawn up a petition, 
which was sent to the general commanding the depart- 
ment, requesting that the regiment be allowed to remain 
as long as troops were needed on the railroad. The 
officers of the Ninth gave a grand ball in honor of the 
Fortieth Kentucky, the compliment was returned, and. 
there was a gay and festive time all around. 



320 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [January, 

FROM SEPTEMBER, 1S63, TO JANUARY, 1864. 
By Scrgt. N. T. Dutton. 

The four months the regiment was stationed along the 
Kentucky Central railroad were perhaps as comfortable 
as any it experienced. Although at first there was much 
sickness, and some of our comrades died, yet with 
improved living, health and strength came, and these 
renewed our cheerfulness and courage. We were in 
the midst of the Blue Grass region, perhaps as fertile 
and productive a spot as there is in the country. Com- 
pany E was quartered at Riser's Station, where, divided 
into two squads, we guarded two bridges. Near each 
"bridge was a block-house, which made comfortable 
quarters. Duty was light, with only an hour or two of 
drill daily. Hard-tack and salt junk were discarded, or 
exchanged for the fat of the land in the shape of milk, 
butter, eggs, poultry, and other good " fixins." The 
people around were hospitable, and often invited the boys 
out to dinner or to spend an evening. Our mail came 
on the hour, boxes were received frequently from home, 
meetings for worship were held regularly, the regi- 
mental strength was increased by recruits, — in fact, it 
vv^as a recruiting time in every way, and gave us the 
vigor for the long marches and the hard campaigning 
of the next year. 

The year before (1862) on Thanksgiving morning I 
•drew a pint of flour, and thought I would make a 
^' minute pudding" of it. I had just got it mixed up 
with water, and well to cooking, when the company was 
ordered on picket ; so tucking the whole thing in my 
haversack, the cooking was finished down on the Rap- 
pahannock, at my picket post. The rest of the boys 
had fared about the same. So we determined to make 



i864-] FROM KENTUCKY TO ANNAPOLIS. 32I 

up for lost time. We chipped in, bought three pounds 
of turkey to a man, all the materials for a huge plum- 
pudding, and plenty of mince pies. Corporal Mayo 
and myself went over and engaged the services of a 
colored woman for the baking. She had never made 
mince pies, but we told her how, and she did all the 
cooking. The baking was done in a large "Dutch" 
oven. All came out "turned to a nice brown," and 
everyone did ample justice to the feast. We had enongh 
that day. There was a fulness that was gainful with 
some of the boys. 

At Kiser Station one man was always kept on guard. 
He carried a loaded gun, and to save cleaning the relief 
guard would take the loaded gun instead of his own. 
The other guns were rarely loaded, as the boys had 
been practising bayonet drill for some time. Every 
afternoon when the train passed the whole company was 
required to fall into line near the station. One night, 
while waiting for the train, one of the men in sport 
began to practise with his bayonet on the guard as he 
paced his beat. He bothered him so much that at last the 
guard said, " I '11 shoot you if you do n't stop ! " and suit- 
ing the action to the word, he, in sport also, drew up and 
aimed his gun. By some chance it went off, the ball, 
Avhich otherwise would have pierced his comrade's heart, 
striking the head of his ramrod and shattering it into a 
hundred pieces. It was a narrow escape, and there was 
no more fooling with the guard. 



Friday, January 15, the regiment set out for Nicholas- 
ville, and from there proceeded to march to Camp Nel- 
son, fourteen miles distant, arriving late in the even- 



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322 NINTH NE W HAMPSHIRE. [January, 

ing. The next day they drew five days rations and 
went into camp. Just before reaching Camp Nelson 
they had met the Sixth New Hampshire, who were on 
their way home for their re-enlistment furlough, and had 
given them three hearty cheers and a " tiger." 

During the ten days stay at this camp the regiment 
was paid off, and on the 25th of January turned in their 
old Windsors and drew new Springfield rifles and equip- 
ments, preparatory to the march to East Tennessee. 
Another incident was an order of General Frye, by 
which eighteen men were detailed to report to Lieu- 
tenant Terry, A. A. Q^ M., "for temporary duty in 
breaking mules." Pursuant to this order, five men 
were detailed from edch of the companies I, G, and F,. 
and three men from Company C ; but the boys have 
never been able to get a satisfactory answer to their 
queries as to what kind of a "high old time" the 
special detail enjoyed in the performance of this 
" temporary duty." 

On Saturday, the 30th of January, after a severe 
march of nearly seventy miles, the regiment reached 
Camp Burnside, at the head of steamboat navigation 
on the Cumberland river, for a force was needed at 
this time to protect the large quantities of supplies 
which had been landed here for the use of the army. 
The itinerary of the journey afforded by the record 
in the diary of Qiiartermaster Moses, who travelled 
with the supply train in the rear of the regiment, is 
both succinct and suggestive : 

"Jan. 25. Camped to-night at Camp Dick Robinson. 

"Jan. 26. Left Camp Dick Robinson, and arrived 

at Lancaster at 11 : 30 a. m. The troops moved again 



1864.] FROM KENTUCKY TO ANNAPOLIS. 323 

at 2 p. m., and marched within two miles of Stamford 
and camped for the night. 

"Jan, 27. Troops moved at 7 a. m., passing tlirough 
Stamford, and arrived at Hall's Gap about noon. 

"Jan. 28. Started at 5 a. m., going through Hall's 
Gap, and arrived at Waynesboro at noon. Had a 
slight foretaste of the roads we are to find, I expect, 
before we reach Lancaster. Left Waynesboro at 2 
p. m., and arrived at Cuba at hall-past five, having 
gone six miles in the afternoon over a very bad road. 

"Jan. 29. Broke camp at 7 a. m. A citizens' supply 
train ahead of me caused much delay. Overtook the 
regiment at noon. Went into camp a mile from Som- 
erset. 

"Jan. 30. Broke camp at 7 a. m. Passed through 
Somerset, and reached Burnside Point at 4 p. m., on 
the worst road yet. The Seventh Rhode Island is 
encamped a mile from us. Furious storm of rain and 
wind during the night." 

While the regiment was wrestling with all these 
difficulties. General Schofield, in command of the 
department of the Cumberland, was communicating 
with General Frye, in command of the middle district 
of Kentucky. "Why don't you send along those 
re-enforcements?" telegraphed Schofield, and General 
Frye ordered Quartermaster Moses to send back the 
answer — "All the re-enforcements are stuck in the 
mud ; " and they were. 

On Monday, February 8, three steamers loaded with 
supplies reached Camp Burnside, the first that had 
ascended to this point since the breaking out of the 
war. In a few days more than a million of rations 



324 NIA'TH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [February, 

were stored here, with a large amount of clothing, 
forage, and ammunition, and every day long trains 
of pack mules were sent off laden with these supplies, 
for Knoxville, via Cumberland Gap. 

The Ninth had a fine camping-ground at Point Burn- 
side, and remained liere until the latter part of February, 
during which time they attended faithfully to drills and 
guard duty, principally for the benefit of recruits. 
Guerrillas were now causingp some trouble in the moun- 
tain districts, and in order that they might not become 
too bold, and thus endanger the line of communication 
with Knoxville, it was deemed expedient to send a small 
Union force through the country. Accordingly, the 
First Ohio heavy artillery and the Ninth New Hampshire 
were ordered to Knoxville by different routes, — the 
former to do duty about the town, and the latter to join 
the Ninth corps, now stationed there. 

One who has never travelled through the region at 
that season of the year can form no idea of the incon- 
veniences, not to say hardships, of that march. After 
leaving Somerset there was little to remind one of civil- 
ization till the vicinity of Knoxville was reached. The 
regiment went by a route which had been very seldom 
travelled, and through a country but which was thinly 
inhabited, — in fact, there were very few places that had 
even a name. 

Some days three or four windowless log huts would be 
the only habitations met with. There were no roads 
deserving the name, and not a bridge on which to cross 
one of the numerous creeks and rivers between Somer- 
set and Cumberland Gap. The streams which could not 
be forded were crossed by ferries. When neither of 
these methods was available, the men made the peril- 



1864.] FROM KENTUCKY TO ANNAPOLIS. 325 

ous passage over the swollen streams, sometimes in 
single file on a high log foot-bridge, or in the same way 
on the upper rail of a Virginia fence. On one occasion 
the top rail of a fence was the only chance for crossing, 
and the swift current almost reached that. One young 
officer, who sported a bran-new uniform, dared not 
venture it, and asked the adjutant to let him ride behind 
on his horse. The adjutant consented, the officer mount- 
ed, but in the middle of the current he somehow lost his 
hold, slid off backwards into the water, and lost all the 
starch in his clothes. The boys cheered, but quickly 
pulled him out, and set his feet on dry ground again. 
Then, too, the coldness of the weather in the moun- 
tain district rendered it necessary for the men to carry a 
larger amount of luggage than usual. Rations were 
short, and pleasant days were rare exceptions. Perhaps 
the more minute description of a single day's experience, 
as chronicled in one of the diaries, may convey a better 
idea of the march to Knoxville than the same amount of 
generalizing : 

" During the night of the 29th [February] it was so 
cold that the rain froze as it fell, and on the morning of 
March i everything was covered with a thick coat of 
ice. We were ordered to proceed on our march. The 
men packed their blankets, which if not wet were many 
of them very damp, and with difficulty struck and rolled 
their tents, which were stiff with ice. The rain contin- 
ued. Overhead the trees were loaded with ice, beneath 
the weight of which the bending limbs were frequently 
broken, falling with a great crash. The sight above us 
was magnificent, but as we were wading through mud 
and water, it excited very little poetical feeling. 



326 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [March, 

"About 10 a. m. the rain changed to a heavy snow- 
storm, which continued the rest of the day. The almost 
numberless streams were swollen to overflowing, and 
many of the men waded to their bodies in crossing them. 
We at length ascended a long, steep hill or mountain, 
and descending the opposite side, reached the Rock- 
castle river, a branch of the Cumberland, about 2 p. m. 
There was an old mud-scow for a ferr3^ but no ferryman 
within two or three m.iles, and that on the opposite side 
of the river. 

" We determined to ferry ourselves over. There was 
no hawser, the craft being propelled by setting poles. 
One load of about twenty men was finally got across, 
and the second load started, when, in the middle of the 
swollen stream, the strong current and deep water ren- 
dered the scow unmanageable, and carried it a long 
distance down the river before they could land. She 
was at length towed back, but the next load shared a 
similar fate. It now became evident that we could not 
all cross that night, and besides, we learned that the 
teams were back several miles and unable to proceed. 
Three companies were crossed over, with the colonel 
and part of the staff', and the rest were ordered back to 
meet the teams. 

"The men had been standing in the storm till they 
were benumbed or aching with the cold, and the snow 
was piled high on their hats and knapsacks, sifting 
down their necks occasionally, and rendering them as 
uncomfortable as could be imagined. Slowly, under 
their heavy burdens, they retraced their steps through 
the snow and mud over the mountain, and about dark 
turned into a field to pass the night. We stacked our 
guns, scraped the snow from the groundy pitched our 



tS64.] from KENTUCKY TO ANNAPOLIS. 327 

tents, gathered wood and made huge fires in front of 
them, broke boughs from the cedar trees, from which 
we melted the ice by holding them over our fires, spread 
them in our tents, drank our cofi'ee, rolled ourselves 
together in our blankets, and slept sweetly and soundly, 
as though between ' bleached linen ' on ' geese-feather 
"beds.' " 

Another version of the march to Rockcastle river is 
found in a letter written by Lieut. C. W. Wilcox, under 
date of March 2, and is fully as graphic in its details : 

" . . . Whilst I have an opportunity I will write a 
few lines with a pencil, the only means I have at hand, 
and I do n't know when I may have another opportunity, 
neither do I know when I shall be able to send this, as 
there are no post-ofiices here, and it is several miles to 
any communication. . . . We had orders one day 
to start immediately for Knoxville. On the next it was 
countermanded, and we received another to start imme- 
diately for Cumberland Gap, which we did on the morn- 
ing of February 27, and since that date the Ninth New 
Hampshire has seen the roughest time that it ever has 
since it has been in the service, which is saying a good 
deal. I have three recruits in my company who have 
been in the rebel service two years, and they say this 
beats anything they have ever experienced yet. 

"After receiving the order, we were directed by the 
colonel to make out our pay-rolls that night, as many of 
them as we could, as we should have to stop somewhere 
and be mustered on the 29th. 

" This was a poser for me, as my orderly sergeant 
was sick, but I pitched in, and by writing until sun-up 
the next morning (without a wink of sleep) I had them 



328 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [February, 

all done and right, — two other companies besides being 
all that did get them done, — some because the}- could not, 
and others because they thought they would have a bet- 
ter time and not be broken of their rest ; but experience 
had taught me that the only time to do anything was 
when there was an opportunity, be it either night or day. 
True, I did not feel much like marching next day. . . . 

"The assembl}' beat the next morning at seven, and 
we started at eight o'clock that morning (the 27th). It 
was very pleasant, and good going, so that we reached 
Somerset early in the afternoon, where we stopped over 
night, starting early the next morning (the 28th). We 
marched all day, making about eighteen miles over hills 
and mountains, on what they call here a road, but you 
would hardly call it a cozv-fath, — halting at night at a 
place called Dallas. There were but two log houses, 
and a log church where we officers stayed through the 
night, as the train did not get up with us and we had 
neither tents nor blankets ; but the church was just the 
thing for the occasion, and we 'dedicated' it in good 
earnest. It was built wholly of logs and without finish. 
At one end there was a fire-place occupying two thirds 
of its width, so you may bet we did not sleep cold or 
wet. It commenced raining just before we halted, which 
was in the woods, about sixty rods from the church. 

" I was officer of the day, and about ten o'clock, just 
as I had dropped asleep, the colonel woke me up, tell- 
ing me to post a picket guard a third of a mile out, and 
around camp. It was raining in perfect torrents, and as 
dark as it ever was since the world began, with heav}- 
timber and underbrush to pass through, without the 
slightest knowledge of the country. I assure you it was 
not a ver}' pleasant undertaking, but I could not com- 



1864.] FROM KENTUCKY TO ANNAPOLIS. 329 

plain, as I could return to my quarters after posting the 
men, who were from my company. They had been on 
rear-guard all day, and had gone to bed without supper 
(their three days rations being out and the trains not 
within three miles). It was hard to order them out to 
stand on their posts all night, without fire or shelter, but 
they knew their duty, and they were on hand without a 
murmur (except from some of the new men), though 
not without some jocose remarks on the subject of 
'Uncle Abe' and hard-tack. 

"The next morning (the 29th) it rained as hard as^ 
ever, and the wind had changed to the north-east, grow-, 
ing colder all day, so that by night the rain froze as fast 
as it fell. We remained there all day, waiting for the 
trains to come up so that we could get more rations and 
our papers to muster by. The companies were all mus- 
tered before dark, and those that had not got their rolls 
finished went to work and did them before morning. It 
rained all night, as it did in the morning, but we started 
at seven o'clock the first of March, as it was twenty-two 
miles to the nearest post, and we had but five days 
rations on board the trains, and the road, what there was 
of it, had got to be swimming with mud. Truly we 
were seeing ' the winter of our discontent made glorious' 
— by a summer's eve. 

" Our course lay through a dense forest, and in five 
miles I saw but one log cabin, with a small open space 
cleared around it. The trees were heavily loaded with 
ice, and it was really dangerous to pass, as limbs and 
trees were continually breaking and falling, keeping the 
pioneer corps busy with their axes clearing up ahead. 

" Every little stream was swollen to high-water mark, 
and we had not proceeded more than a half mile before we 



330 NINTH N^EIV HAMPSHIRE. [March, 

Avaded a stream waist deep. This was perfectly awful, 
for the weather, as well as the water, was almost freez- 
ing. I was provided with a good pair of boots and a 
rubber coat, but these were of no avail, except the latter 
to keep the shoulders dry. Shoes were just as good as 
boots, and even better in this case, as you had to carry 
less water. To get them off and on was next to an 
impossibility. . Thus we marched on, crossing a half 
dozen streams which were almost deep enough to carry 
us down stream. It commenced snowing about ten in 
the forenoon, and snowed as hard as ever I saw it, so 
that by night it was four inches deep. 

"We arrived at this place (Rockcastle river) at one 
o'clock in the afternoon. There is but one house very 
near here. It is a log one, and occupied by the ferry- 
man, his wife, wife's mother and sister, and a half dozen 
little ones, with but one room in the house. This is six 
miles from where we started in the morning. We 
remained here until four o'clock, waiting for the ferry- 
man to come, he being awa3s during which time we 
were standing in the wet and cold ; and when he did 
come, he was unable to ferry but three companies across 
before dark, on account of the swollen and rapid current 
of the river. So the colonel took the three companies 
that had crossed, and went on to Flat Lick, which is 
sixteen miles farther, with but two houses between here 
and there ; and Lieutenant-Colonel Babbitt was left in 
charge of us (the remainder of the regiment), with 
orders to wait here until the trains came up. So we 
went into camp, and what fence-rails there were near 
were soon converted into firewood, and a stack of flax 
was turned into beds to sleep on in less time than I can 
write it. 



lS64.] I-'"*^" KENTUCKY TO ANNAPOLIS. 331 

"But we officers were the worst off this time, for our 
blankets were all on the trains, but with .ny woollen and 
rubber overcoat, with a pile of rails, I managed to get 
warm and partly dry, with some cold sleep before morn- 
ing This morning the sun was clear, and at this t.me 
(four o'clock in the afternoon) it is quite warm and 
pleasant, and finds me sitting on a log before a huge 
fire writing to you-and don't I th.nk of you and you 
comfortable home ! The trains have come, and ha^ e 
sent the boys after my tent and blankets, so I shall sleep 
warm to-night. They say the woods here are full of deer 
and wild turkeys, although I have not seen any as yet. 

It was two days before the teams and the rest of the 
men succeeded in crossing the river, and then the com- 
mand moved on to the log-hut town of London The 
road had been very muddy, and the fifteen mdes w 
through a nearly unbroken expanse of forest, makmg the 
progess of the troops both slow and toilsome Indeed 
all The southern part of Kentucky seemed to be as w.ld 
and rough as the central portion of the state had been 
rich and beautiful, and the contrast between the mhabt- 
tants of the two sections was equally marked. 

London was now a small, dilapidated town but ns 
general appearance would lead one to think it had been 
quite a thriving place before the war broke out. There 
las no church, but quite a large brick school-house and 
this plainly showed the marks of soldiers and their bullets 
There were two hotels and four or five stores, which 
were only kept open by the patronage of *« =°ld>e.-s 
stationed there, and those passing through. There had 
been a great deal of bushwhacking in this section of tne 
country, and earthworks were to be seen on neariy every 
hill-top in sight of the town. 



332 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [March, 

The settlers were mostly from the "poor white trash" 
of the South, indolent, totally devoid of ambition, living 
chiefly on "hog and hominy," and dressing in a coarse 
homespun cloth. Every man kept a " dorg" and a gun, 
and gave all his attention to these, leaving the corn-patch 
and pigs to the care of the women. While the troops 
were waiting at the river several of the men called on 
the "nabob" of the vicinity, who had, in addition to his 
"mansion," a wretched little saw-mill and a one-run 
grist-mill. 

The house was a one-room log affair, about fourteen 
by eighteen, and not half as neat and comfortable as a 
good stable. A big fire-place filled up one end, two beds 
stood in the other, and the housewife's loom, stretching 
across the middle of the room, left but little space for the 
crazy table and stools. On a rude shelf over the fire- 
place were a couple of cracked pitchers, half a dozen 
plates, a Dutch oven, a few buckets and gourd cups, 
two rifles and powder flasks, — and this completed the 
inventory of the family possessions. And yet they were 
positively wealthy as compared with their poorer neigh- 
bors ! 

The supply of beef cattle had accompanied the trains 
in the journey across the mountain, and as they fared 
worse for rations than the men did, it was a common 
report before the Gap was reached that when the butch- 
ers killed one of these " lean kine " they were obliged 
to cover it with a blanket in order to have it cast shadow 
enough so that they could see where to strike. 

A pathetic incident occurred as the command was 
marching through the town of Barboursville, when an 
old, white-haired man came alongside the regiment and 
asked the privilege of marching a short distance under 



1S64.] FROM KENTUCKY TO ANNAPOLIS. 333 

the "old flag." Several times he exclaimed "Thank 
God, I see the old colors again!" and finally turned to 
go back with the tears streaming down his cheeks. 

Cumberland Gap was reached March 11, and as the 
rations were completely exhausted, and the teams were 
far in the rear waiting for bridges to be built so that the 
streams could be crossed, the men had a somewhat novel 
experience in obtaining temporary supplies. The monu- 
ment marking the corner of the states of Kentucky, Vir- 
ginia, and Tennessee stood fust beside the road where 
it passes over the highest ground in the Gap. The gar- 
rison and government storehouses were within the Ten- 
nessee boundaries, and the camp was in Kentucky, so 
the men lodged in Kentucky, went through Virginia 
into Tennessee and drew rations, and returned to Ken- 
tucky to breakfast. 

Two days were spent in the camp on the mountain- 
side. Most of the men put in the time drying and clean- 
ing their clothing, which was in a sorry condition, for 
they had all long since ceased to think of trying to keep 
any portion of their lower extremities dry, but waded 
through mud, slush, water, or anything that came in 
the way and was less than three teet deep. Paymaster 
Scoville overtook the command during the stay here, 
and the men drew pay for January and February. 

It took some lively scrambling to get to the summit of 
the mountain, but the few who made the venture felt well 
repaid for the climb. To the south lay East Tennessee, 
with the Alleghany mountains on the North Carolina 
border for a background ; to the east was the pass, in 
which the camps of two thousand men, a few build- 
ings of ante-bellum date, and several government 
storehouses and barracks were clustered, and beyond, 



334 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [March^ 

Stretching away in ragged outline till it was lost in the 
distance, rose the steep and rugged mountain ; a narrow 
but pretty valley skirted the northern side, and was shel- 
tered from the chilling winds by a range of forest-clad 
hills ; on the west the mountains continued in wavering 
but unbroken line as far as the eye could reach. 

Late in the afternoon of the second day the trains 
came up, and the command moved on through the Gap 
and went into camp about a mile beyond. The roads 
were in better condition beyond the Gap, and on the 
14th no less than eighteen miles was covered before 
dark. Guerrillas had been seen two or three times dur- 
ing the day on the neighboring hills, and as a precau- 
tionary measure Company K, under Lieutenant Allen, 
was sent forward to guard the ferr}^ across Clinch river, 
some three miles in advance. Near the river they dis- 
covered what appeared to be a camp of guerrillas, and 
came back with this report. Captain Smith of Company 
B, with ten men, was sent out to reconnoitre. Colonel 
Titus called for a volunteer to go ahead and challenge 
the pickets, and Ford of Company F stepped out and 
said, " I am the man !" They set out for the supposed 
camp, and Ford, going on ahead, discovered nothing 
more formidable than sorhe smouldering log-piles which 
a farmer had fired the day before. It was hard on to- 
midnight when the thoroughly disgusted men got back 
to camp. 

Considerable time was consumed in getting the com- 
mand across the river the next morning, but the twelve 
miles covered by four o'clock had taken them out of the 
woods and hills into a more open country, and as the 
teams were nearly used up it was decided to go no far- 
ther that night. It was not long, however, before a 



1864.] FROM KENTUCKY TO ANNAPOLIS. 335- 

Union man came into camp and reported that a com- 
pany of guerrillas was at a point a few miles distant. It 
was said that they had been stealing sutlers' goods, and 
had encamped near a distillery owned by an influential 
Confederate, and that the officers were now at his house. 
Lieutenant Sampson commanded one party of twenty 
men, and Captain Buswell another. 

The still was found and destroyed, and the owner cap- 
tured. His wife and daughter tried to follow him to 
camp, and Lieutenant Burnham was detailed to " see 
them home." They proved to be somewhat intractable 
to his gentle persuasions, but after a little he succeeded 
in getting them to " about face " and " forward march," 
towards home. No guerrillas were found, but there was 
plenty of apple-jack and sugar, and the parties got back 
by daylight the next morning, well " loaded" with the 
spoils. 

By seven o'clock, on the morning of the i6th, the 
command was on the move, and by five in the after- 
noon had made seventeen miles and bivouacked. The 
route had been through a splendid farming countr}-, — 
rolling, well watered and timbered — but most of the 
inhabitants had disappeared, and many of the buildings 
had been burned. The night before, the guerrilla party 
had noticed a mule with the U. S. brand at one of the 
places they had visited, and as Quartermaster Moses 
was anxious to secure the animal to replace one lost 
from his teams, he asked Captain Buswell to let him 
have a man to go back with him to get it. 

The captain suggested Lemar, one of the French 
recruits, as a good one for this duty, but the quarter- 
master demurred, — on the ground that he was green, 
didn't understand the language, and if there should be- 



336 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [March, 

an}' trouble, would be of little assistance. "Well," 
said the captain, "talk with him a few minutes, and 
see what you think of it then." Lemar was called up, 
and after a while was made to understand what was 
wanted of him. "Ah, me see, — get mule back there 
Avhere Burnham charge bay'net on dog — ha, ha ! " 
"Well," said the quartermaster, "what will we do if 
the old reb out there won't let the mule go^says we 
sha'n't have him?" After a moment's reflection Lemar 
seemed to comprehend the situation. "Me go there, 
me find mule, old r-reb say mule no go ! I ! ah ! I ! me 
-muskit say mule go I " and the excitable little French- 
man gave his rifle a flourish as if he were bayoneting 
a particularly formidable foe. "You'll do!" said the 
-quartermaster, and away they went. Before noon they 
rejoined the regiment, the Frenchman riding the mule, 
and looking every inch a conqueror. 

Knoxville was reached at noon on the 17th, and the 
regiment went into camp in a pine forest about a mile 
and a half to the north-west of the city. The camp was 
in plain sight of the town, and of Fort Saunders, where 
the Ninth corps had resisted the fierce attack of Long- 
street's forces, in November, 1863, and had paid oft^ the 
"Johnnies" for Fredericksburg. Rations and ammuni- 
tion were drawn, in anticipation of the advance to meet 
the corps. 

Late in the afternoon of the 19th a battalion drill was 
ordered, but the men had been out only a short time 
when they were sent back, with fifteen minutes in which 
to pack up. At the end of the allotted time a move of 
about a mile was made, and the regiment went into 
camp with its old brigade in the Ninth corps, which 
had just arrived from the front. It was good to be at 





I Corp. Lewis W. Aldrich, Co. 1. N. Bvron Chamberlain, Co. I. 





Corp. James H. Matthews, Co. I. Corp. Charles H. Knight, Co. I. 



1864.] FROM KENTUCKY TO ANNAPOLIS. 337 

home again, for all the time of its long separation from 
the corps the regiment had been under the orders of 
General Frye of the Twenty-third corps. 

The next movement of the Ninth New Hampshire 
was to be to Annapolis. When General Burnside had 
assumed the command of the Ninth corps, it was with 
orders to "recruit and fill up the old regiments," and 
to increase its strength to the number of " 50,000 men, 
for such service as the war department might see fit to 
delegate to them." The task of recruiting had been 
carried on with great activity during the early part of 
1864, and on the 8th of March Annapolis was selected 
as the rendezvous for the corps by the secretary of war. 
The new regiments were sent to this point as fast as 
their organization was completed, and the regiments 
which had passed the winter in East Tennessee and 
Kentucky were also ordered thither. 

Preparations for the journey were at once begun. 
The sick, wounded, and baggage were to go by rail, 
and the rest were to "hoof it" as far as Nicholasville. 
Quartermaster Moses was detailed as acting brigade 
quartermaster, and Lieut. Edward Greene was ap- 
pointed acting regimental quartermaster. Colonel Car- 
ruth was in command of the brigade. Colonel Titus of 
the division, and General Ferrero of the column. 

By eight o'clock on the morning of the 21st, the 
column was on the road north, taking the route via 
Point Burnside for Camp Nelson. The roads were 
good and through a fine country, and as the men were 
unincumbered wath any baggage the march was made 
with very little discomfort, compared with previous 
experiences. The Clinch river was crossed on the 22d, 
and by three in the afternoon fourteen miles of the dis- 

XX I [ 



338 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [March, 

tance to Jacksboro had been covered. It had been 
snowing since morning, and the men had faced the 
storm nearly all the way, so they were not in the least 
sorry when they saw the head of the column come to 
a halt, and the order was given to turn into the woods 
and camp for the night. 

The next day the troops passed through Jacksboro, 
and to the foot of the' mountains a few miles be^^ond, 
where a halt was made to draw rations. A five days 
supply of hard-tack and bacon was soon stowed away in 
the haversacks, the teams which had brought the sup- 
plies were sent back to Knoxville, and with them such 
of the men as were sick, and unable to make the hard, 
rapid march. Then, with the inner man well fortified 
by a substantial meal, about noon the men began the 
ascent of the mountain. The road was both steep and 
rouo-h, and it was sunset before the troops bivouacked 
near the summit. 

For three days it alternately snowed and rained, but 
still the men pressed wearily on, wading through mud 
and slush and soaked to the skin. The country was a 
perfect wilderness, and often for miles the only sign of 
civilization would be an acre or two of clearing with its 
wretched log shanty, and even that was generally 
deserted. When, on the 25th, at half-past ten in the 
forenoon, the head of the column crossed the state line 
from Tennessee into Kentucky, the band struck up, 
" Oh, a' n't you glad you ai^e getting out of the wilder- 
ness !" and the whole command took up the strain and 
made the woods ring again and again. 

The night of the 28th there was a heavy rain, which 
continued at intervals through the following day, and 
wound up with a blustering snow-storm just at night. 



1864.] FROM KENTUCKY TO ANNAPOLIS. 339 

Hall's Gap was reached by two o'clock, and the troops 
were glad to go into camp. The rations that were drawn 
here included for meat some genuine " mess" pork, and 
as they had been dining on bacon — or "slab-side" — 
for quite a while, the men looked upon this as a stroke of 
good fortune. They were now nearing the end of the 
journey, and stringent orders against straggling were 
issued that evening. 

Two days more, and they were in camp near Nicholas- 
ville — the long tramp was finished, and not a little to the 
joy of the trampers. In ten and a half consecutive days 
they had marched no less than one hundred and eighty- 
five miles. Considering the season of the year and the 
condition of the roads, this was a record to boast of in 
days to come. For the Ninth regiment, however, it 
was only half the story, for during the month of March, 
just closed, it had marched over three hundred miles, 
and since the 25th of January, more than four hundred. 

The regiment had reached Nicholasville, in its return 
march from the Cumberland Gap, on March 31, and on 
April 2 it was being rapidly whirled northward over the 
familiar route of the Kentucky Central road. Colum- 
bus was reached late in the evening of the following 
day, and the men grumbled considerably at the quality 
of the bread and coffee served to them here. About 
noon of the 4th cars were changed at Belair, and the 
Ohio was crossed on a ferry-boat. Some hot coffee and 
a fresh supply of rations made life seem a little more 
endurable when the cars were once more boarded for the 
long ride through Virginia. The journey was made in 
freight cars, where close packing would obviate the ne- 
cessity for a fire, and the men were more than glad to dis- 
embark when Annapolis was finally reached on the 7th. 



340 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [April, 

The regiment was at once ordered to Camp Parole, 
about two miles from the city, and quickly forgetting the 
discomforts of the journey, proceeded to enjoy their new 
situation in true soldier fashion. Sutlers and peddlers 
soon swarmed about them, and the men w^ere children 
again in their keen enjoyment of the fruits and vegeta- 
bles to which they had so long been strangers. 

During the stay at this point the camp was twice 
visited by General Burnside, and the Ninth had a chance 
to pay its respects to the gallant commander. On the 
first visit the boys turned out and gave him three rousing 
cheers, — such as he alone could call forth. The gen- 
eral was plainly dressed, but looked as dignified and 
noble as ever. As the boys swung their hats and 
cheered, he in a good-natured way bared his huge, bald 
cranium and smilingly bowed his acknowledgments, as 
if the hearty good-will thus expressed was by no means 
distasteful to him. 

The second time he was accompanied by Generals 
Grant and Meade, and the party rode through the camp, 
all the regiments having been ordered out for inspection. 
As the cavalcade approached the line of the Ninth, the 
customary salutes were given, and then the colonel 
called for "Three cheers for General Grant!" which 
were given in good style. Then he called for "Three 
cheers for our old General Burnside ! " and this time 
such a volume of sound came from the throats of the 
men that the dignified generals smiled in spite of them- 
selves. 

Early in the month General Burnside had received 
orders to have his command in readiness to move at any 
time after April 20, and at that date the work of organ- 
ization and equipment was completed. The Ninth corps 



r- 




Gen. S. G. Griffin. 



i864] FROM ANNAPOLIS TO BRISrOW STATION. 34I 

now comprised four divisions, with General Parke as 
chief of staff. The first division was commanded by- 
General Stevenson, the Second by General Potter, the 
Third by General Willcox, and the Fourth, which was 
made up entirely of colored troops, by General Ferrero, 
the entire command numbering 25,000 men. The Ninth 
New Hampshire reported to Gen. S. G. Griffin, com- 
manding the Second brigade of the Second division. 

All these preparations foreboded an important move- 
ment, but speculation was rife as to the destination of 
the corps. From its present position two movements 
were possible, — one, as a re-enforcement to the Army of 
the Potomac ; the other, an independent campaign 
against Richmond from the seacoast south of Norfolk. 
Orders to be ready to move at daylight on the following 
morning were issued on the evening of the 22d, and at 
the appointed hour the corps took up its line of march, 
the route following the line of the Elk Ridge and 
Annapolis railroad, towards Washington. Only twelve 
miles was covered before sundown, for the roads were 
dusty and hard for the feet, and the bivouac for the night 
in the grassy fields was a welcome relief. The next day 
the Ninth regiment had the lead, which made it easier 
marching, but the eighteen miles that were travelled 
between seven in the forenoon and five in the afternoon 
were like the Irishman's when he lost his way — "Just a 
trifle long!" The corps encamped for the night near 
Bladensburg, about eight miles from Washington. 

The start was made about eight o'clock the following 
morning, but as a heavy shower had just fallen, the 
progress during the forenoon was somewhat slow, though 
the ice-cold waters of the creek that was forded late in 
the forenoon did wash off a portion of the accumulated 



342 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [April, 

mud. The outskirts of Washington were reached about 
noon, and the word was passed along the line that the 
corps was to pass through the city, and that President 
Lincoln and General Burnside were to review them from 
a balcony of Willard's hotel. 

The regiment had made the march from Annapolis 
under the command of Major Chandler, who had but 
recently returned from Concord, N. H., where he had 
been on detail duty since early in January, as Colonel 
Titus was ill in the hospital at Washington and Colonel 
Babbitt was enjoying a twenty days leave of absence. 
The men made a creditable appearance in the long line 
of troops that trod the streets of the city that afternoon, 
yet as a part of the great pageant many of the details of 
the imposing scene were unknown to them. From the 
many accounts of that memorable review it is not easy 
to make a selection, but no one is more graphic in its 
descriptions than the following selection from an address 
delivered at Beverly, Mass., by Hon. R. S. Rantoul, in 
1871 : 

" On the 25th of April, 1864, I stood, at high noon, 
on a thronged sidewalk of the city of Washington. 
Across the street, and raised on a balcony above the 
surging crowd, a lank, sad man stood gazing wistfully 
down — his head uncovered — upon the passing scene 
beneath. An unutterable sadness seemed to have fixed 
itself upon his face. For the most part he was unnoticed 
by the long procession, which hour after hour, with fre- 
quent pauses, but with elastic tread, pushed on, through 
dust and sweat, for Long bridge, a few rods off — then 
over the Potomac and into Virginia. In dull succession, 
company on company, battalion by battalion, brigade 



,864.] FHOM ANNAPOLIS TO BRISTOW STATION. 343 

after brigade, wearily ye. cheerfully, they tramped on 
under that southern sun, sometimes smgmg, oftener 
thoughtful, never seemingly regretful. 

4twas one of (Sose soft, vernal days, whose very 
air, as if breathed from groves of oranges and myrtle 
seemed able to melt all hearts. Music there was : but 
strangely, as it seemed, not of that martial =*-- asso- 
ciate!, in piping times of peace, with '1- "-h "f ba t^ 
Exquisite music there was from mart.al bands, but for 
the hour they seemed to have attuned themselves to 
melodies of home and love. 

.. Shoulder to shoulder, looking not back, askmg not 
whither, marched the bronzed veteran of East Tennessee 
and Carohna with regiments of raw recruits,-tradesmen 
and mechanics from the towns, the farmer and frontters- 
man from the West, the lumberman from his Eastern 
forest, Indian sharpshooters attached to Western mfan- 
try, favored sons of culture and wealth, the hrst black 
division, five or six thousand strong, following the wh.te 
state flag of Ivlassachusetts, batteries of artillery, squad- 
rons of cavalry; mingling with these, or pressmg hard 
upon them, commissary wagons, ambulances, and quar- 
termasters' trains, stuff-ed with the equipage of hosp.tal 
and camp ; and, last of all, as far as the eye could reach, 
fat beeves choked up the dusty way. 

" Solemnly the mighty mass moved forward to con- 
front its fate. Many a brave man felt that day that he 
was crossing Long bridge never to return. L.ttle heed 
paid they that the eye of Lincoln was upon them ; bttle 
ardor they caught from sad, sweet music or the cheers and 
greetings of the thronging streets ! Little was there for 
them of pomp or circumstance of glorious war Gnm re- 
solve and cheerful devotion were the lessons of the hour , 



344 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [April, 

"Ask where you would, you got no clue to their des- 
tination, tor no one knew it! They had waited long at 
Annapolis, expecting to be ordered off by sea. Not a 
man, that day, of all those marching legions, knew 
whither he was goina- ! 

" ' Theirs not to reason why ! 
Theirs but to do and die ! ' 

" Only the lank, sad man who gazed from his high 
place upon them, hat in hand, as though with a friend's 
last look, and the few high officials about him, knew more 
than that the Ninth Army corps, twenty-five thousand 
strong, had been ordered from Annapolis to Alexandria ! 
The veil of the future was not yet lifted ! " 

The Long bridge was crossed, and about tw^o miles 
farther on the troops went into camp, "Where are we 
going?" was the question that was heard on all sides 
that night, and while many still clung to the hope that 
transports would be waiting for them at Alexandria, the 
opinion that the corps was to join in the grand movement 
of the Army of the Potomac constantly gained ground. 
The last glimmer died away when it became known the 
next day that the corps had been assigned to the duty 
of guarding the Orange & Alexandria railroad from the 
Potomac to the Rapidan, relieving the Fifth, which had 
been ordered to the front. 

On the 27th the march was resumed, the brigade start- 
ing in the middle of the forenoon and marching until 
dusk, when it went into camp about three miles beyond 
Fairfax Court-house. The weather had been warm, and 
the roads dusty, but the men w^ere fifteen miles from 
their starting-point when the halt was made. The next 



1864.] FROM ANNAPOLIS TO BRISTOW STATION. 345 

day the Ninth New Hampshire was detailed to act as 
guard for the baggage train, and hard, hot work they 
found it, for they had to take the side of the road and 
leave the smooth track for the mules. The route lay 
through Centreville, which was found to be practically 
deserted, past the old earthworks at Manassas, and din- 
ner was eaten on the historic battle-field of Bull Run. 
The Run was forded, and at sunset the brigade reached 
Bristow Station and went into camp on Broad Run. 
The country had been reduced almost to a desert : even 
*' tent timber" and firewood were at a premium. 

The 29th was cold and windy. The troops were early 
astir, expectant of a farther advance, but in the station- 
ing of the difl'erent regiments of the division along the 
line of the railroad, the only change which fell to the lot 
of the Ninth was a move across the railroad into what the 
boys designated as a horse and mule cemeter}^ for a car- 
cass confronted them at every turn. A mail had arrived 
that morning, and the boys were not sorry for a brief 
respite, though they were kept in constant readiness for 
a move at short notice. From their camp they watched 
the constant passing of heavy trains loaded with soldiers 
and supplies, for the army beyond the Potomac was 
being largely re-enforced, and the head-quarters of 
General Grant were only thirty miles away, at Cul- 
peper Court-house. 



JOTTINGS BY THE WAY. 

While the regiment was stationed in Kentucky, Cap- 
tains Alexander and Cooper attended an auction sale of 
slaves that was held in the open market. Among the 
lot was a pretty girl named Eliza, and her grandmother. 



346 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [January, 

old Aunt Betsy. There was so little negro blood in the 
girl that anywhere else she would have passed as a 
white woman, and the bidding on her was very smart. 
Two young fellows had run the figures up to above 
eight hundred dollars, and our captains were discussing 
between themselves if they could possibly raise money 
enough to save her from such a life as she was doomed 
to lead, when a benevolent looking old gentleman, who 
had overheard their conversation, stepped forward and 
said, — "You are right, young gentlemen ; it is a shame, 
and rather than see the poor thing sacrificed I '11 buy her 
myself!" And he was as good as his word, for he not 
only bid off" the girl, but when the old grandmother was 
put up on the block and the auctioneer was trying to get 
some one to make an offer for her, he said, " Here, I '11 
take her too!" though he knew the poor* old creature 
could never be anything but a burden on his hands. 



Quartermaster Moses had some relatives by the name 
of Baker at Lancaster, who were very hospitable to him 
during the stay in Kentucky. When the regiment was 
ordered to East Tennessee one of the slave-owners in 
the vicinity where Moses's cousin lived, missed one of 
his black boys and suspected that he was trying to get 
off with the regiment. So he got Baker to go with him 
and a sheriff to the camp, hoping to interest Moses in 
the search. 

When they got to the camp and had made known their 
errand, the quartermaster was puzzled as to which horn 
of the dilemna to choose, for he did n't want to help cap- 
ture the boy and at the same time he had received many 
kindnesses at Baker's hands ; so he went walking along 



1864.] FROM KENTUCKY TO ANNAPOLIS. 347 

with them, hoping that something would turn up — a la 
Micawber — to help him out of his difficult position. 
They went near where the boy was, but he had got 
wind that the sheriff was after him, and when he saw 
them coming started on a run out of the camp. 

The sheriff caught sight of him, and drawing his pis- 
tol he shouted, " Come on. Quartermaster !" The quar- 
termaster's blood boiled at the thought. "No, by 
G — d, I won't come !" he said ; " I won't chase human- 
ity for any blood tie on earth !" The sheriff chased the 
boy and caught him, but after a little skirmish the boy 
got away and made for the woods, where Captain Copp 
had a company of men doing picket duty. "They're 
after me ! My master is after me !" he cried, and 
besought Copp to save him. 

Copp told him to hide in the woods and keep quiet. 
Then he turned to the men and said, "They're after 
this boy, but they 're not going to have him. You know 
what I mean, probably." Evidently they understood, 
for they all looked at their guns and saw that they 
were loaded and capped. Soon the searching party 
appeared, looking carefully into the woods and bushes 
as they went along the road. For some reason they 
paid no attention to the pickets, and after the coast was 
clear the boy was taken back to camp. 

But when the regiment marched through Lancaster 
the sheriff was on the lookout, and this time the colonel 
was appealed to, and the owner of the boy. Dr. Pettis, 
demanded that his " property " be returned to him. " I 
have nothing to do with him," said the colonel, " and 
know nothing about him." At the time of the previous 
visit of the sheriff the men had appealed to the colonel 
as to what should be done with the boy, and he had told 



348 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [March, 

them that they mustn't ask him, but if they couldn't 
manage to take care of him among themselves, why his 
owner must have him. 

The regiment was marching compan}'^ front, and the 
darkey was in between Companies C and E. The sheriff 
started to go through the lines, but the little fellow was 
too quick for him, and slipped back through the ranks 
to Company K. He got behind Captain Cooper, and 
when the sheriff' tried to follow him, Allen, who was the 
orderly sergeant on the right, punched him with his 
musket so that he drew blood. He tried again to break 
into the line, and this time Captain Cooper took him by 
the collar and said, " You get out of here !" and hoisted 
him off" his feet and laid him alongside the curbstone. 
Qiiite a number in the crowd that had gathered drew 
their revolvers, and it looked for a moment like trouble ; 
but the regiment went on its way, and the boy was put on 
board the train at Knoxville by Lieutenant Case, who 
was a thorough-going Abolitionist and was bound to 
save him from slavery. 



Lieutenant Wilcox. — I presume you remember when 
we left Camp Burnside it was my fortune to be lieutenant 
of the guard, and that there were strict orders against 
foraging through that part of Kentucky. Along towards 
night the colonel's cook was seen down in the field, com- 
ing towards us. We had just passed a farm-house, where 
there was a flock of geese right around the yard and the 
barn. We kept marching along, and pretty soon we 
saw the cook coming back, close by the wall, with a 
big, fat goose under his arm. One of the men stepped 
over the wall and collared him, and we marched him 
along with the rest, and made him carry the goose. 



1864.] FROM KENTUCKY TO ANNAPOLIS. 349 

The colonel wanted to go as far as possible — this was 
when we were going to Knoxville, and it was the first 
day out — and it was nearly dark when we turned into a 
piece of woods beside the road. We pitched our tents 
and got ready for supper, and the man and the goose 
stayed with us, " under guard." By and by the colonel's 
orderly came along, and he asked me if I had seen any- 
thing of the colonel's cook. " Yes," said I, "I've got 
the colonel's cook right here, and a goose besides, and 
you can go back and tell the colonel so with my com- 
pliments ! " It was n't long before we heard from the 
colonel — he wanted some supper, and if we 'd send him 
the cook we might keep the goose. We had n't many 
fixings, but the colonel's cook was a man of discrimina- 
tion, and that bird was mighty fine eating. 



^lartermaster Moses. — On the march to Point Burn- 
side, Sergeant Wadleigh, of Company A, who had been 
ailing for some time, though still on duty, tried to get 
permission from the surgeons to be placed in the ambu- 
lance, saying that he was exhausted and felt he could 
go no farther. This was refused, and he stumbled along 
a little way, and finally gave out entirely. When I 
came along with the train I picked him up and put him 
on some oat sacks and brought him to camp. The next 
morning I turned him over to the surgeons, and told 
them to see that he was taken care of; but it was too 
late to do the poor fellow any good, and he died that 
night. 

Lieutenant Wilcox. — That time we built a bridge over 
Rockcastle river, in order to get the teams across, was a 



350 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [March, 

pretty tough job. The bridge had been carried away, 
but the timbers were lodged in a heap of driftwood in 
a little bend, and we had to get them out the best way 
we could. Just before we started on the job General 
Garrard rode down to the bank of the river and asked 
Colonel Titus if he had any engineers. " No," replied 
the colonel, " I haven't got any engineers, but I 've got 
some live Yankees, and I guess they '11 do about as 
well." So we went to work, and while the water was 
— as the boys say when they go in swimming a trifle 
early in the season — " n-ni-nice and w-warm !" still we 
kept pegging away, and in less than tvventy-four hours 
that bridge was ready for use, and the teams got across 
all right. General Garrard told the colonel afterwards 
that he had heard of Yankee tricks before, but he 

believed that bridge-building was the d dest Yankee 

trick that ever was played. 



^larterniaster Moses. — Just after we joined the corps, 
and I was appointed acting brigade quartermaster. Quar- 
termaster Cilley and I had been scurrying around get- 
ting the teams loaded up ready for the trip back over 
the mountains, and we got rather thirsty. So we hunted 
up some "apple-jack," and I invited the quartermaster 
to have a drink with me. We each had one, and then 
I asked the man how much it was. " Fifty cents 
apiece, gentlemen," said he, "or three drinks for a 
dollar." Now I did n't really care for that other drink, 
but I wasn't going to let such a chance go a-begging, 
seeing that I 'd got to pay a dollar anyway. "All 
right," says I, "we'll have three drinks." The man 
thought I meant three drinks apiece, but I emptied one 



1864.] FROM KENTUCKY TO ANNAPOLIS. 35 1 

glass, laid down my dollar, and got out without waiting 
for the change, for we were in Kentucky, where they 
didn't always stop to give you warning of their intention 
to shoot. 



Lieutenant Wilcox. — When we were at Camp Burn- 
side, the sutlers started in with charging the men exor- 
bitant prices, and it was n't long before there was a 
revolt. I had n't paid much attention to what the boys 
said, and the first thing I knew there was a perfect mob 
over on the east side of the camp where the sutlers' tents 
were. The boys cleaned out a whole row of them, and 
when some officers came riding up, and tried to stop 
them, they turned on the officers, and pelted them with 
eggs till they were covered from head to foot, and had to 
beat a retreat. 



Colonel Babbitt. — I was in command of the regiment 
on the journey to Annapolis, and when we got as far as 
Cumberland, Md., the engineer swore he would n't run 
the train any farther. I put a guard on the engine, and 
told the engineer that he could run that train, or I'd take 
possession and run it myself. He sputtered for a while, 
but I told him I 'd give him thirty minutes to make up 
his mind ; and, having stationed a guard so that he could 
not get away from us, I went back to my car. When I 
went back in half an hour, he said he had concluded to 
run the engine himself. He got up steam, and we went 
ahead, but I kept a guard over him till we got to An- 
napolis, all the same. 



When Dr. Webster went back to New Hampshire 
early in January, the officers of the regiment ver}' much 



352 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [March, 

surprised Colonel Titus by making him a present of the 
bay horse which the doctor had owned, and which he 
had disposed of to them at a bargain — no one ever could 
be persuaded to expose the conditions of the trade, how- 
ever. The colonel thought it very kind of them, indeed, 
and expressed his acknowledgments in the approved 
fashion ; but when he came to examine his new posses- 
sion more closely, he recalled to mind, with peculiar 
appropriateness, the old adage, " Never look a gift horse 
in the mouth," for the beast was not only old, but lame, 
and had been for some time, as the colonel learned later 
on. 



When the order for the Ninth to proceed from Camp 
Burnside to Knoxville via the Cumberland mountains 
arrived, everybody who knew anything about the route 
declared it to be an utter impossibility to get the teams 
through, yet General Frye was blamed not a little at 
head-quarters for not immediately enforcing the order. 
Finally he received a summons to report in person at 
Knoxville to explain the cause of the delay, and to leave 
the senior colonel of the brigade to take it through at 
once. Colonel Titus was the senior colonel thus com- 
missioned, and his reply to the command was that he'd 
see the brigade in a hotter place by several degrees than 
Camp Burnside was, and himself in private life, before 
he 'd sacrifice his men in any such foolhardy undertak- 
ing. With what recruits had been received the regi- 
ment now numbered in the aggregate nine hundred and 
thirty enlisted men, and the colonel had labored hard to 
bring them to their present efficiency, so it is not strange 
that he should object to such summary proceedings. 
When Quartermaster Moses finally turned over his 




Quartermaster William Pitt Moses. 



iS64.] FROM KENTUCKY TO ANNAPOLIS. 353 

teams at Knoxville, late in March, it was conceded by 
every one that he had accomphshed what had been 
regarded as an impossibility ; but an officer who rode 
over the route a little later in the season, declared that 
from Cumberland Gap to Knoxville he never was out of 
sight of a dead mule. 

It will be remembered that the band which went out 
with the regiment from Concord had been made a bri- 
gade band, and that Major Everett had organized an- 
other. The new band, by dint of diligent practising, 
had arrived at quite a degree of proficiency, and Band- 
master Graves was very proud of his pupils. Writing 
home to Major Chandler, who was on detail duty at 
Concord, he says, — ''We now have sixteen men, and 
have three different parts represented very well, so I 
hardly think we need any more at present. Jimmie 
says, ' Tell the major I should like to come to Concord, 
and beat the calls for him.'" The rough roads that the 
regiment travelled over that winter, however, made the 
duties of the band rather light. 



One special detail in which the men made an unusu- 
ally strong impression on the Kentuckians, was when 
Colonel Titus sent a detachment of sixty-nine men, 
under Captain Whitfield, to act as a funeral escort for 
the body of Major Evans, of the Nineteenth Kentucky, 
at the request of General Boyle. The regiment had 
just received its new equipments and rifles, and with its 
new colors, which had been sent to Cincinnati for in- 
scription with the memorable words "Jackson" and 
^' Vicksburg," made a splendid appearance. 



XXIII 



354 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [March, 

Lieutenant Wilcox. — When we were passing through 
Washington on our way to Annapolis, the orders were 
very strict in regard to any one's leaving the ranks. 
There were four ex-rebels in my company, and as we 
halted for a few minutes in the street, one of them 
named Douglass came up to me and said, " Lieutenant, 
I have a sister here in the city whom I have n't seen for 
three years. I want to stop and see her, and I give you 
my word of honor as a man that I will return and be in 
camp for roll-call to-morrow morning." " How do you 
know where we are going to be?" I said. " I '11 find 
you," he replied. " There are strict orders against any 
man leaving." •' I know it, but I want to see my sister 
before I leave." 

Well, I had quite an interest in Douglass, and had 
talked with him a good deal. He had been in the Con- 
federate service, and used to curse our fellows because 
they would find fault with the grub. " D — n you!"' he 
used to say, "you ought to go into the Southern Confed- 
eracy for a while, and see how you 'd like the food 
there ! " He was a good soldier, and very faithful, so I 
said to him, " Well, Douglass, I don't want to see any 
man leave the ranks," and he took good care that I 
should n't see him ; but he was back in his place the 
next morning, just as he had promised. 



F. y, Biii'nham. — While we were stationed near 
Paris, several of the boys got permission one night to 
go into town, and two of them — Cram and O'Brien — 
came home gloriously drunk. The former was an old 
soldier, having served in the British army in India and 
under Havelock, and he took the punishment ordered by 



,864.] FROM KENTUCKY TO ANNAPOLIS. 355 

the captain — carrying a log — like a philosopher, but 
O'Brien dodged his by taking leg bail during the night. 
Soon after the new rifles were drawn the colonel inau- 
gurated a five hours drill daily, and having heard that 
there was considerable growling over the order, gave the 
grumblers a practical lesson on the subject. One morn- 
ing when the boys were reheved, instead of having them 
draw the charges in their rifles, as usual, he put up a 
turkey, which he had managed to procure somewhere, 
at a distance of about three hundred yards, and told the 
boys to try their skill at that for a target, promising the 
bird as a prize to the man who should succeed in hitting 
it. The boys did their prettiest, but no one secured the 
prize. With our old Windsors his turkeyship would not 
have escaped so easily, but it made the boys see the ne- 
cessitv for drill, and that was what the colonel was after. 



Sergeant Lathe. — I saw one sight at Camp Burnside 
that I shall not soon forget. About forty families from 
East Tennessee passed through there one day, and it 
was a sight to bring tears from eyes unused to weeping. 
They were all women and children, whose husbands and 
fathers were either in the army or had been killed by 
the rebels. They had been five weeks coming over the 
mountains, and most of the time it had been very cold. 
Some of them had hardly rags enough to cover their 
nakedness, and wore men's boots to keep their tender 
feet from the frozen ground. One woman had five lit- 
tle children, the oldest but six years of age. One can 
scarcely conceive of the suff'erings endured by the loyal 
people of the South during those dreadful years. These 
people had lost everything they possessed, and had been 
driven from their homes by the rebels. 



CHAPTER XL 

The Wilderness and Spottsylvania Court-House. 

For three long years the conflict between the North 
and the South had raged with unabated fury, yet the 
Southern Confederacy still existed, and its leaders were 
stroncT in their belief that it could hold out until the na- 
tions of Europe should recognize it as an independent 
and sovereign power. After his defeat at Gettysburg, 
Lee had withdrawn his army across the Rapidan, and 
during the winter had recruited its ranks ; so that he 
now had a powerful army, 

" Ready to fight, or ready to die ! " 

With so determined a leader as Lee had proved himself 
to be, and a host of veterans tried and seasoned b}' the 
privations and hardships of war, the Southern army 
appeared to be almost invincible ; and now the North 
was awake to this fact, and also that the war was being 
prolonged to a point beyond the safety of the nation. 

There was no question that, so far as numerical 
strength and material resources were concerned, the 
North had the advantage ; but with the armies in the 
East and West acting independently of each other, and 
never pulling together, the Southern commander had 
only to employ his interior lines of communication, and 
by transporting his troops from East to West re-enforce 
the army more vigorously pressed, to hold the balance 
of power even with inferior forces. It was evident that 



i864.] THE WILDERNESS AND SPOTTSYLVANIA. 357 

the various and complicated operations of the Northern 
armies would be greatly promoted by placing them 
under the^direction of a single competent leader. Such 
was the popular judgment, and it was in accordance 
with this demand that President Lincoln, on March i, 
1864, had nominated Gen. Ulysses S. Grant as lieutenant- 
general of the armies of the United States. 

The rank of lieutenant-general— an office carrying 
with it an authority subordinate only to that of the presi- 
dent, and an honor hitherto accorded to George Washing- 
ton alone— had been revived by congress, and the nomi- 
nation of the president was promptly confirmed by the 
senate. That the quahfications of General Grant for 
this responsible position should be universally conceded, 
was not to be expected, but while there may have been 
other commanders who were his superior in strategy, 
there was one point in which he stood pre-eminent, and 
that was his utter disbelief in the efficacy of sentimental 
procedures in dealing with the Rebellion. There would 
be no return to loyalty so long as the military power of 
the South remained unbroken, and in his opinion that 
power would never be broken save by the force of strong 
armies in bloody battles. 

It was with such views as these that General Grant, 
summoned from the West by telegraph, repaired to 
Washington to receive his commission and instructions. 
He was formally introduced to the president and cabinet 
on the 9th of March, and the following day, after a 
flying visit paid to the Army of the Potomac, started 
on his return to the West, to arrange the preparatory 
movements inaugurating the general campaign. His 
assumption of command was made in a brief and 
modest order, announcing that his head-quarters would 



358 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [May, 

be in the field, and, until further orders, with the Army 
of the Potomac. The remainder of March, and nearly 
the whole of April, were devoted to careful preparation 
for the campaign. 

While General Grant was in St. Louis he had assigned 
to Gen. W. T. Sherman the command of the division 
of the Mississippi, including the departments of the Ohio, 
the Cumberland, the Tennessee, and the Arkansas; had 
promoted Gen. J. B. McPherson to the position that 
Sherman had held, and advanced Logan to the com- 
mand of McPherson's corps. The i\rmy of the Poto- 
mac, under General Meade, was completely re-organ- 
ized, the five corps being reduced to three, commanded 
respectively by Generals Hancock, Warren, and Sedg- 
wick. General Burnside, who had been re-organizing 
and receiving large accessions to the Ninth corps in 
Maryland, crossed the Potomac on the 23d of April, and 
joined Meade's army, thus increasing the fighting strength 
of the force to considerably more than 100,000 men. 

To the Army of the Potomac had been assigned the 
most important work of the campaign, and that was to 
turn Lee's right flank, which would prevent a counter- 
movement on Washington ; and having forced him back 
on Richmond, to destroy his army as soon as possible. 
At length everything was in readiness, and the army, 
masking its intentions by a feint on Lee's left, was put 
in motion to cross the Rapidan on his right, at midnight, 
on the 3d of May. Warren, crossing at the Germania 
ford, led the way, followed by Sedgwick, and pushed 
straight on into the Wilderness ; while Hancock, cross- 
ing at Ely's ford, moved on to Chancellorsville, accom- 
panied by the trains of the whole army. As soon as 
this much had been accomplished. General Grant, on 



1864.] THE WILDERNESS AND SPOTTSYLVANIA. 359 

the 4th, sent orders to Burnside to unite with the army 
south of the Rapidan. By making a forced march, he 
arrived there the next day, though some of his troops 
marched forty miles to accomplish it. By this time Gen- 
eral Grant had left his head-quarters at Culpeper Court- 
house, and advanced to the front. 

A glance at this famous battle-ground known as the 
Wilderness, shows a large tract of broken table-land, 
stretching southward from the Rapidan nearly to Spott- 
sylvania Court-house. Seamed with ravines, covered 
with a dense growth of scrubby timber and bushes, with 
only an occasional clearing, crossed by three or four 
good roads and a multitude of narrow cart-tracks, the 
whole region formed a tangled labyrinth in which num- 
bers, artillery, and cavalry, were of small account 
against local knowledge, advantage of position, and 
command of roads. 

Obviously it was for Grant's interest to get through 
this maze as quickly and with as little fighting as pos- 
sible : and this he confidently expected to do, but Lee, 
alert and vigilant as ever, no sooner discovered the 
movement than he prepared to meet the advance. His 
army, which had been looking north towards the Rapi- 
dan, was brought around to the right and moved down, 
and the line of battle was formed about six miles to the 
east of the defences on Mine run. Ewell's corps held 
the left of the line, next the river ; A. P. Hill's corps 
occupied the right, and Longstreet, who had but recently 
returned from his campaign in East Tennessee, and was 
now resting at Charlottesville, was ordered up in season 
to participate in the second day's action. 

The first day of the advance only a few Confederate 
pickets were seen and scarcely a shot was fired. That 



360 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [May, 

night Warren rested at the Old Wilderness tavern, which 
was about five miles from the ford, with Sedgwick's 
corps two miles in the rear. Hancock's corps was also 
in the rear, near Chancellorsville, and the cavalry, under 
Sheridan, guarded the front and flanks of the infantry. 
An early start was planned for the next morning : War- 
ren and Sedgwick were to bear to the south-west, follow- 
ing the road to Orange Court-house ; Hancock, pressing 
more to the south, was to make for Shady Grove church, 
and the cavalry, sweeping still farther to the south-west, 
was to make a reconnoissance in force. 

Scarcely were the troops well under way on their sev- 
eral routes, on the morning of May 5, when the Confed- 
erate forces made an unlooked-for advance. The 
ground was as unfavorable for the successful resistance 
of an attack as it well could be ; there was no time, even, 
to form in line of battle ; yet there was no choice for the 
Union commander but to fight. Hill, by an early start, 
had secured a strong and sheltered position on a ridge 
crossing the road which Warren had taken, and had 
struck him full in front long before Hancock could arrest 
his march to the south and swing in on Warren's left. 
In the stubborn and bloody conflict which followed, both 
sides lost heavily, and neither gained any particular 
advantage. 

In the mean time Sedgwick had been engaged by 
Ewell, and though the latter made a most determined 
effort he was obliged to give way, the rapidly gathering 
darkness alone preventing the pursuit of the advantage 
thus gained. The result of the first day's contest was a 
nearly equal loss in killed and wounded, but the Confed- 
erates claimed a thousand prisoners to about three hun- 
dred on the Union side. 



1864.] THE WILDERNESS AND SPOTTSYLVANIA. 36r 

When Burnside's corps came up that night it was dis- 
tributed along the weakest points of the line, for General 
Grant had ordered an advance from the whole front for 
the following morning (the 6th) ; but, early bird though 
he was, the enemy stole a march on him, and attempted 
to turn his right flank, which was held by Wright's divis- 
ion of Sedgwick's corps. The attack was vigorously 
repulsed, and as a result the line was enabled to advance 
to a slightly more favorable position. The whole front 
felt the force of the next blow, which came about eight 
o'clock, and three several attempts were made at various 
points before the Confederates succeeded in pushing in 
between the corps and assailing first one wing and then 
the other. Aided by their thorough knowledge of the 
field, they were able to move their forces from left to 
right, and back again, without being observed from the 
Union side, and thus create the impression of a much 
larger attacking force than really existed. 

The battle on the left had been opened by Hancock's 
corps in the early morning. Pushing boldly forward, he 
succeeded in driving back Hill's corps nearly two miles 
in the direction of Parker's store. Longstreet coming up 
at this juncture, the tables are turned ; but now the sturdy 
force of the Ninth corps is brought into requisition, and 
the game of battledore and shuttlecock begins. Back 
and forth, first one side and then the other holds the 
advantage, until at length, by a skilful maneuver, the 
advancing foe is struck full in the flank, is driven back 
with heavy loss, and the contest ends with the Union 
troops holding substantially the same ground as in the 
morning. 

It was nearly dark, and after practically a cessation of 
hostilities, when the Confederates, massing all their 



362 NIA'TH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [May, 

Strength, made a sudden onset at the right flank of the 
Union line, surprising and routing three brigades and 
taking about 4,000 prisoners. Sedgwick finally restored 
his lines, but it was now so dark that nothing further, 
offensive or defensive, could be accomplished, and the 
second day of the bloody struggle was ended. 

That night several guns were brought up and placed 
in position on the right, and at an early hour Saturday 
morning opened fire, but elicited no response. Skir- 
mishers were then advanced, and it soon became evident 
that Lee had had enough of advance attacks. With his 
whole front strongl}^ intrenched, he was ready to receive 
but not to give. General Grant had no desire to prolong 
so unequal a contest as the present field of operations 
promised, and the columns were quickly put in motion 
southward, to the higher and more open ground around 
Spottsylvania Court-house. General Warren with the 
Fifth corps had the advance, and Burnside's corps 
brought up the rear, all the divisions except the First 
following the Sixth corps through Chancellorsville and 
going into bivouac on the road beyond. There was 
some skirmishing with the enemy during the march, but 
little harm was done. 

May 9 was rather more exciting in its events. Gen- 
eral Willcox's division of the Ninth corps had been 
ordered to the point where the river Ny crosses the Fred- 
ericksburg and Spottsylvania road, and having made 
an early start, was within a mile of the river when the 
advance encountered the enemy's pickets. Having 
driven them back to and across the river, he seized the 
bridge and posted a brigade and two batteries of artillery 
on a little eminence a quarter of a mile beyond. The 
enemy made several attacks on this position, but meeting 



i864.] THE WILDERNESS AND SPOTTSYLVANIA. 363 

with a decided repulse at all points, finally retired. 
Although the Second division had prepared the way, the 
brunt of the fighting was borne by the First and Third, 
the Second not being ordered up from the bridge until 
late in the afternoon. 

The remainder of the army had had a share in the 
day's adventures as well. Lee had quickly divined the 
plan of the Union commander, and having the shorter 
lines of the two, transferred his army from the Wilder- 
ness to the vicinity of Spottsylvania Court-house, and 
having strongly fortified his position, awaited the arrival 
of the Union forces. Again was General Grant fore- 
stalled, but nothing daunted he at once prepared for 
another contest of endurance. The loth of May was a 
day of hard and bloody fighting, and every inch of 
ground was contended for with skill and valor. The 
enemy's lines were between the Po and Ny rivers, and 
well protected by forests and marshy land. The Ninth 
corps held the extreme Union left, General Willcox's 
division holding the position near the river that had been 
so gallantly won the day before. During the afternoon 
the corps made an advance on the enemy in the face of 
a heavy fire, and the First division succeeded in reach- 
ing a point only a short distance from the court-house, 
which was held until the order came from head-quarters 
for its withdrawal. Slowly the night settled down upon 
the wearied and exhausted soldiers, and yet the morrow 
could only bring a renewal of the struggle, for in spite of 
the heavy losses on both sides no decisive result had as 
yet been attained by either. 

A heavy rain fell on the nth, and only skirmishing 
was indulged in, General Grant availing himself of the 
opportunity to change his base of operations from the 



364 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [May, 

Rapidan to Fredericksburg. The week of toil and blood 
had borne fruitful results in misery and suffering if in 
nothing else, and the rear of the army was a vast field 
hospital, while the recesses of the Wilderness held hun- 
dreds of the unburied dead in their silent depths. 

The brief respite ended wnth the day, and it seemed, 
on the morning of the 12th, as if every man realized 
that the final test of strength had come, for with the dawn 
the bloody battle opened. General Hancock's corps 
began the attack, striking and completely surprising the 
enemy's right centre and capturing and sending to the 
rear a host of prisoners, together with twenty pieces of 
artillery. Burnside's corps shared in the daring adven- 
ture, and with this auspicious opening it promised well 
for the success of the Union troops. But before noon the 
enemy had risen to the necessity, and for three hours the 
fearful carnage went on, the Confederates trying in vain 
to force back the Union lines, but preventing any further 
advance by the withering fire they were able to bring to 
bear upon the unprotected soldiers. 

General Grant, however, was not content with this, 
and determined to turn the enemy's right flank if pos- 
sible, though the enterprise was rendered the more difii- 
cult and dangerous from the marshy nature of the ground 
at that point, the showers of the morning and the pre- 
vious day having made it even worse than usual. Early 
in the afternoon the troops were massed upon the left^ 
and once more the struggle for supremacy begins. Again 
and again the troops press forward, and each time they 
meet with the most stubborn resistance from the equally 
determined foe. Step by step is the ground disputed, 
and the deadly fight continues till the field is covered 
with the wounded and slain. Only as the darkness of 



1864-] THE WILDERNESS AND SPOTTSYLVANIA. 365 

-night separates them from each other's sight do friend 
and foe cease to strive. 

On the morning of May 11, General Grant had sent the 
following bulletin to the war department at Washington : 

"We have now ended the sixth day of very heavy 
fighting. The result, to this time, is much in our favor. 
Our losses have been heavy, as well as those of the 
enemy. I think the loss of the enemy must be greater. 
We have taken over 5,000 prisoners by battle, whilst he 
has taken from us but few, except stragglers. I p'ofose 
to fight it out on this line, if it takes all summer.'" 

But the frightful carnage of the ensuing day put a 
different view on the matter. The only special advan- 
tage had been that gained by Hancock, and even that 
was dearly bought by thousands of lives ; and as Lee 
had immediately fortified a line directly in front of Han- 
cock's position, his stand was practically as invulnerable 
as ever. Yet Spottsylvania was not the objective point 
of the campaign, and if the position was too strong to be 
forced, some device must be employed to draw the 
enemy from his fastnesses. Several days of maneuver- 
ing, marching, and counter-marching ensued, and on 
the i6th a strong demonstration was made by the First 
and Second divisions of the Ninth corps, for the purpose 
of reconnoitering the enemy's position, developing the 
fact that he was still in full force and not to be lured 
from his stronghold. 

On the i8th an action involving about one half of the 
army was begun, and a position rendering a portion of 
the enemy's works untenable was obtained, but even 
with this material advantage it was hopeless to attempt 
to carry the works in the face of the murderous fire that 



366 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [May. 



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belched from the brazen throats of the bellowing guns 
upon the heroes who vainly tried to surmount the bar- 
riers, and late in the forenoon the assault was abandoned. 
The battles of the Wilderness and Spottsylvania 
called for the sacrifice of no less than 40,000 men, and 
the North was filled with the weeping and mourning of 
the widowed, the fatherless, and the childless. The 
Confederates, who had fought for the most part from 
behind defences, had lost heavily as well, but neither 
ardent patriotism or invincible hatred had gained the day. 



AGAIN TO THE FRONT. 

The true history of the soldier's life is not without its 
pathetic side, and the-fecords of the Ninth New Hamp- 
shire chronicle no more touching incident than that con- 
nected with the following letter, received by the wife of 
Captain Smith on the very day that he was killed, May 

12, 1864 : 

Camp 9TH N. H. Vol. Ixft. 

Bristoe Station, Va., May 3, 1S64. 
My Dear Wife : 

I have sent you several lines since I left home, and 
under the circumstances they were short, as no infor- 
mation is allow^ed to pass to the rear. M}^ health is as 
good as usual. We are expecting to move any hour. I 
suppose that if you hear from me, and have onl}?^ a few 
lines, you will excuse me under the circumstances. I 
should like to write many things, but in justice to all I 
shall forbear. Give my love to all, and accept these 
few lines from your loving and afi'ectionate husband. 

In haste, 
Orville Smith, Captain, 
Co. B, gth N. H. Vols., 2d Brio^., 2d Div., gih A. C. 




Capt. Orville Smith, Co. B. 



1864.] THE WILDERNESS A^'D SPOTTSYLVANIA. 367 

In the afternoon of May 3, at the close of battahon 
drill and target practice, the division was ordered to be 
ready to move at six o'clock on the following morning, 
with six days rations. This meant that hot work was 
not far away, and there was considerable disappointment 
expressed when, as the men were preparing for an early 
start with the rest of the division, it was announced that 
the Ninth New Hampshire and Thirty-second Maine 
were detailed to guard the surplus baggage and rations 
left on the camp-ground, and were to remain at the sta- 
tion until relieved. The delay was not for long, how- 
ever, for relief came that very afternoon, and it was only 
a short time before their hasty preparations were com- 
pleted and they were pushing on to rejoin the command. 
Nightfall came on before two miles had been covered, 
and the two lone regiments bivouacked on an old camp- 
ground which had served as winter quarters for a portion 
of the Army of the Potomac. 

As early as half-past two on the morning of the 5th 
the men were routed out, and twenty miles, through a 
desolate, uninhabited region, were told off by the mile- 
posts before the halt for the night was made, at Rappa- 
hannock Station. The halt for dinner had been made 
at Warrenton Junction, which was readily recognized by 
the men of the Ninth as the place where they had bid- 
den farewell to their old commander. Colonel Fellows, 
some eighteen months before. The officers of the 
Thirty-second Maine, which was a new regiment, had 
hard work to make their men keep up with the old-timers 
on the march, but even they were tired enough to wel- 
come the order to "Stack arms, and make comfortable 
for the night ! " 

The next day the march was resumed at daylight, the 



368 NINTH NF.W^IAMPSHIRE. [May, 

Rappahannock was crossed, and Germania ford on the 
Rapidan was reached about noon. The day had been 
warm for the season, and a hah for dinner and rest was 
ordered before crossing the river. In the afternoon the 
Ninth moved on to the Wilderness, and soon found and 
joined the rest of their brigade, taking up their position 
in the second or supporting Hue. Heavy cannonading 
had been heard since the early morning, but the men 
scarcely realized how fierce a contest w^as going on until 
they found tiiemselves in the thick of the fight. Some 
of the regiments of the brigade had been hotly engaged 
"before the Ninth came upon the field, but it was then so 
near sunset that hostilities soon ceased for the night. 

All was quiet the next morning when, at early dawn, 
the Ninth New Hampshire was ordered to a position in 
a piece of woods at the front, the Thirty-second Maine 
beincr stationed at the left, and the Fourteenth New 
York at the right, of the regiment. The men at once 
set to work to protect themselves with a line of defences, 
and by noon had completed them in good shape. There 
was heavy fighting just to the right of the line all the 
forenoon, and the men were momentarily expecting the 
order to drop the shovel for the musket, but by al"ternoon 
the battle was raging farther away to the right, and the 
line was left undisturbed. Towards night they were 
relieved by other troops, and the boys began to think 
that luck was against them this time, for shortly after 
they left the field the Confederates charged the line and 
were repulsed wnth heavy loss. The night was passed 
with the division, in an open field, the men sleeping all 
night with their arms in their hands. 

The next day was Sunday, but the soldiers had long 
•ceased to look upon Sunday as a day of rest. At day- 



1S64.] THE WILDERNESS AND SPOTTSYLVANTA. 369 

break they were on the road to Chancellorsville, which 
was reached, after a hot and dusty march, about nine in 
the forenoon. After a brief halt to draw rations the 
regiment moved on a short distance, and tpok up position 
behind the breastworks thrown up by Hooker for his 
ardllery in the great battle of the preceding year. At 
this stage of the game Chancellorsville was the extreme 
right position, and was occupied by the Second brigade. 
There was no engagement at this end of the line, and 
the remainder of the day passed quietly. 

Many of the men were interested in examining their 
surroundings. A little in front of the ground occupied 
by the Ninth a slight eminence marked the spot where 
Stonewall Jackson received his death-wound. In the 
woods to the right, which had been held by the infantry 
of Hooker's right wing, the ground was still strewn with 
the debris of battle, and on every hand were the mounds 
where the slain had been partially — and only partially — 
covered with earth, and from which heads, hands, and 
feet of skeletons protruded. It was not a pleasant scene, 
to contemplate, to say the least, in view of a possible 
occupancv themselves. 

The reofiment rested at Chancellorsville till near even- 
ing of the 9th, when they were relieved by a brigade ot 
the Fourth division, and moved up the plank road toward 
P>edericksburg, the bivouac for the night again being 
on historic ground, — this time in an orchard behind the 
fortifications thrown up by Lee in the winter of 1862-3, 
to protect his rear at the time when Burnside had at- 
tempted an attack and got stuck in the mud. 

It was a little after noon of the loth when the regiment 
was ordered in. A rapid march of five miles, through 
bushes and scrubby undergrowth, brought them to the 

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370 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [May, 

front, where the brigade at once got into position. The 
Ninth had been assigned to the rifle-pits, and very short- 
ly after getting comfortably placed discovered that a 
change in tactics had exposed them to a hot artillery tire. 
However, there was nothing to do but lie still and take 
it, with never a chance to give a shot in return. The 
first shell to do an}' damage struck near Company H, 
wounding two men — the lirst loss of the campaign. The 
firing ceased at dusk, but the men lay on their arms all 
night, suff^ering some from the chilly air, as they were 
without blankets. 

Here they remained until the middle of the following 
afternoon, when they were ordered to move back about 
two miles for the purpose of drawing rations. Supper 
was hastily eaten, and then back on the double-quick to 
nearly their former position. There was a heavy shower 
just at nightfall, the rain continuing through the night, 
and as the men had neither tents nor blankets with them 
they were thoroughly wet and chilled before morning. 

The quiet of the night, following the hurried move- 
ments of the afternoon, was something of a surprise to 
the men, but subsequent events soon cleared up the 
attendant mystery. That afternoon General Grant had 
called a council of war, at which the question of a 
retreat, or withdrawal to the other side of the Rappahan- 
nock, was freely discussed ; Hancock and several others 
advocating the wisdom of such a course. Grant heard 
his corps commanders' suggestions, and then gave them 
all sealed orders, to be opened simultaneously on reach- 
ing their respective commands. To the surprise of most 
of them, these orders were found to direct an advance, 
which resulted in the hot battles of the next few days, 
followed by the flank movement toward the North Anna. 



1864.] THE WILDERNESS AND SPOTTSYLVANIA. 37 1 

It is probable that the withdrawal and subsequent mass- 
ing of the troops which occurred that afternoon was to get 
in shape for whatever course of action the council might 
result in, and the return was in pursuance with Grant's 
order to advance. Had Grant at this critical juncture of 
affairs weakened and retreated, the outcome of the war 
might have easily been different ; in fact, it was a current 
remark among the troops at the time, that if any one but 
Grant were in command there would be a retreat, and a 
re-enactment of the previous Virginia campaigns. In 
Grant's vocabulary, however, the word "Retreat" 
appeared to have been left out, and, beaten or victorious, 
he pushed ahead all the same. 

At daybreak on the 12th the battle opened with an 
assault from the Union lines. At about four o'clock a 
signal of four field-pieces discharged in rapid succession 
was given, and " Forward ! " was the word. The Second 
brigade had the extreme right of the Ninth corps, and 
the Ninth New Hampshire had the right of the brigade. 
The Second corps was at the right, though somewhat in 
advance, and, owing to a thick fog which enveloped 
both friend and foe, succeeded in surprising the enemy, 
and captured an entire division, together with several 
guns and numerous stands of colors. 

The Ninth corps now had the right of way, and 
pushing rapidly forward — over rough ground, across a 
steep, miry creek, then through a stretch of forest with 
its tangle of undergrowth — soon came upon the extreme 
left of the Second corps, who, behind the breastworks 
they had just captured, were busily preparing to meet 
the counter-charge which a body of Confederate troops 
was about beginning. The Ninth New Hampshire had 
got a little in advance of the rest of the brigade, and as 



372 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [May, 

they came into view a staff' officer of the Second corps 
rode up on the gallop. Hastily inquiring of Major 
Chandler, who was in command of the regiment, what 
troops the}^ were, he exclaimed, "For God's sake, Ma- 
jor, change front and come in our left — they are flank- 
inc; us !" 

The major only partially comprehended the situation* 
but clear and sharp came the order — " Cliange front, 
forward on Tenth company ! " The order was promptly 
obeyed, and the advance continued for thirty or forty 
rods, along what had been the front of the Confederate 
line, and over a tangle of scrub pine and brush which 
they had cut down. Just then the fog lifted, and there 
face to face, not ten rods away, was a whole division of 
the enemy, advancing in column of regiments and five or 
six lines of battle deep ! 

The regiment at once halted and commenced firing, 
but many of the rifles were wet and could not be fired 
until freshly primed, and this wea'kened the fire some- 
what. In spite of this drawback, and the fact that a 
large proportion of the regiment was composed of raw 
recruits, the volley of musket balls brought the advanc- 
ing column to a standstill, but only for a moment. By 
that time the Confederate commander had taken in the 
isolated position of the regiment, and throwing out tour 
full regiments onto their unprotected left flank, subjected 
them to a raking cross-fire which it was simply impos- 
sible to endure. Major Chandler gave the order to fall 
back slowly, keeping up their fire ; but the enemy at 
once pressed forward on the run, and the choice la}-- 
between capture or an immediate retreat to the crest of the 
little ridge just in the edge of the timber where the regi- 
ment had changed front for the advance. 



1864.] THE WILDERNESS AND SFOTTSYLVA.VIA. 373 

The ridge was reached. The remnant of the regiment 
— for the galling fire to which they had succumbed had 
sadly lessened their number — rallied, another line of bat- 
tle was formed, and bravely facing the host of their pur- 
suers the men began firing. All had gone well until the 
major was wounded in the thigh and was carried from 
the field ; but the enemy was now close upon them, and 
the regiment, under the command of Captain Stone, fell 
back still farther into the woods. 

In the mean time the rest of the brigade had come up 
I'ust in season to strike the Confederate column in flank 
the moment after it had routed the Ninth, and after an 
obstinate fight compelled them to fall back and take posi- 
tion ; so that the ground where the Ninth first encoun- 
tered them finall}^ became the middle position between 
the lines, and both sides soon intrenched, keeping up a 
hot fire on each other for the rest of the day. At night- 
fall a portion of the regiment was sent to the right, 
to occupy with a cordon of picket posts a little space 
between the lines of the Second and Ninth corps. The 
night was showery, and the picket detail had a dreary 
task before they were relieved in tiie early morning of 
the 13th. All that da}' the regiment, with its brigade, 
lay behind the intrenchments in double line of battle, 
with a skirmish line outside the breastworks keeping up 
a desultor}' fire. 

A portion of the ground charged over the day before 
was now inside the lines, but the .place where the Ninth 
had first encountered the Confederate column lay outside, 
and after nightfall a party of volunteers went out to bring 
oft' the wounded belonging to the regiment, finding sev- 
eral and getting them safely oft' the field. All the long, 
cold night the men lay on their arms in the trenches, 



374 NINTH NE W HA MPS HI RE. [May, 

getting what sleep was possible under such wretched 
conditions. The rain ceased with the dawn, and the 
regiment as a whole was allowed to rest through the day, 
though heavy details were continually made on the men 
for one purpose and another. That evening another 
searching party went out, and succeeded in finding and 
bringing off thirty of their dead comrades. The task of 
these volunteers was a hard and even dangerous one, as 
the skirmishers, except at the point where the party had 
gone through the lines, were firing more or less all the 
time. 

The 15th of May marked the second Sabbath spent in 
the field, and the first detail of the morning was for the 
burial of the dead. The bodies were all placed in one 
long trench, the cold, damp earth was hastily shovelled 
in, and with a tear on their cheek for the dead, and a 
silent prayer for the living on their lips, the men hurried 
back to the trenches. The regiment had been roused 
about three o'clock, and put in readiness for an attack, 
should one be made. For three nights now the men had 
got only a couple hours of sleep in a night, and none in 
the daytime, and the long strain was beginning to tell. 
The only change in the position of the regiment during 
the day was a slight move to the right, which gave them 
the extreme right of the corps. During the afternoon 
the Confederate batteries threw a few scattering shells 
over their heads, as they lay in the rifle-pits, but fortu- 
nately no one was injured. 

Under cover of the thick fog seven more bodies were 
recovered on the morning of the i6th. The list of casu- 
alties on the 1 2th accounts for sixty-two as killed, accord- 
ing to Fox's "Regimental Losses." Among the officers, 
Captain Smith had been killed, and Major Chandler and 




Major George H. Chandler. 



1864.] 



THE WILDERNESS AND SPOTTSYLVANIA. 375 



five lieutenants severely wounded. Lieutenant-Colonel 
Babbitt, who had been detailed to command the Thirty- 
second Maine on the 7th, was also badly wounded, and 
the command of the regiment thus devolved upon Cap- 
tain Stone. Captain Edgerly of Company C had been 
killed on the 6th, and altogether the regiment suffered 
.severely. As one man remarked, "If we have to go in 
again, there won't be anybody left to keep tally !" 

All that day the regiment lay quietly behind the breast- 
works, and there was but little firing along the line. A 
body of skirmishers was thrown out from the" Eleventh 
New Hampshire to feel the enemy, and lost fifteen men 
in a very few minutes, which was pretty strong evidence 
that the enemy were still in force. For the first time in 
a fortnight the men were given an opportunity to write 
home, and the mail which went out that night was heavily 

freighted. 

On the 17th the men were ordered to the rear to draw 
rations, which gave them a chance to get the "kinks" 
out of their legs. For eight days and nights they had 
been under fire, with only a few hours' sleep, wet to the 
skin most of the time by the heavy rains, with no warm 
food or drink, and the sergeant who pulled oft' his boots 
and found the legs of his trousers covered with green 
mould, was not to be blamed for thinking he was "booked 
for the graveyard sure ! " 

The Ninth did picket duty in front of the rifle-pits 
through the night of the 17th, which passed quietly. 
Returning behind the breastworks just before daylight 
of the i8th, they were ordered out again almost immedi- 
diately, with the brigade, as supports for a division of 
the Second corps, which was to charge the enemy at 
sunrise. The charge w^is soon made, the supporting 



376 XINTH XEW HAMPSHIRE. [May, 

brigade receiving a sharp lire from the enemy's batteries. 
The attacking t'orce carried the first line ot" works, but 
were themselves driven from the second, and falling 
back in confusion upon the brigade, disordered their 
ranks and swept them back as well. The brigade 
quickly rallied, however, and pushing forward, took 
position near the works which the advance had uncov- 
ered, keeping up a skirmish fire till nearly nightfall, 
when they were ordered back behind the breastworks. 
The day's losses in the Ninth New Hampshire were, — 
Captain Stone, commanding the regiment, mortally 
wounded, besides six privates killed. The adjutant- 
general's official report gives a total of sixty -two killed, 
between the dates of May 12 and 18: but according to 
Fox's "Regimental Losses." the Ninth New Hamp- 
shire between May 12 and iS sustained a total loss of 
sixty-eight killed and over two hundred wounded. 

A redoubtable maior who was in command of one 
of the newer regiments, had created considerable amuse- 
ment bv rallvincr his men immediatelv in the rear of the 
Ninth. '• Here, boys," he shouted, •' get right in here 
behind the Ninth New Hampshire fellers I It's the best 
place we can get." Just then he discovered that his 
sword had t alien from its scabbard during his retreat to 
sate quarters, and he began to shout again. " O boys, 
I Ve lost my sword ! Five dollars reward to any man 
that'll go back and find mv sword I " But his liberal 
offer found no takers, and some wag suggested to him 
the propriety of hunting up his sword himself, and thus 
save the reward. 

That night the regiment lav on the *' off dutv ** line, 
and anticipated getting a night's sleep : but there was no 
" rest for the weary '' they found, tor at half-past one in 



1864] THE WILDERNESS AND SPOTTSYLVAiYI A. 377 

the morning they were called up, and moved to the 
vicinity of Burnside's head-quarters. After the hasty 
and scanty breakfast, there was another move, this time 
about two miles, to the left and front, where the brigade 
formed a line of battle and lav in the edge of an oak 
forest during the rest of the day. This outing was a 
pleasant relief from the monotony of the gloomy pine 
forest where so many wearisome days and nights had 
been passed, and the sight of a field of corn, — the tender 
blades fluttering softly in the morning air, — together with 
the arrival of a mail, — the first for three weeks — colored 
the sleep of the wearied, exhausted soldiers with dreams 
of their far-away homes among the New Hampshire hills. 

That night the men slept through, undisturbed by 
friend or foe, and remained quiet through the day fol- 
lowing, with the exception of a scouting party, which went 
out about three miles, and finding everything quiet, re- 
turned to camp. Rations were drawn in the afternoon, and 
preparations were made in anticipation of a move on the 
morrow. The forenoon of the 21st a reconnoissance in 
force was made, but no enemy appearing, the brigade 
fell back to its old position about noon. At three o'clock 
the whole corps was put in motion, and moved south- 
ward. Towards five o'clock the advance was shelled 
from a battery across the Ny, and this caused a halt till 
about midnight. Then the road towards Fredericksburg 
was followed till daylight. 

A halt for breakfast was ordered at daybreak, and 
after making coffee the men were allowed a short time 
to rest. The column once more in motion, the march 
was continued througrh Bowlinor Green, across Matta- 
pon}' creek, and then on and on, until at sunset the 
nearly exhausted troops turned into the woods and 



378 NINTH NE W HAMPSHIRE. [May,. 

encamped for the night. Starting about seven o'clock 
on the morning of the 23d, the column moved slowly on 
through the forenoon, the only incident to break the 
monotony being the passing of General Grant and his 
stafl', the boys getting a near-by view of the " Stars." 
Steadily pressing onward, through tield and forest, and 
seemingly in every direction, the troops at last emerged 
near Ox ford, on the North Anna, where the}' bivouacked 
for the night. 



TOLD BY THE CAMP-FIRE. 

Captain Cofp. — At Spottsylvania Court-house, on the 
1 2th, we had driven the rebels out of one line of works, 
and had lain down on the outside, not being supported 
by the other troops. The rebels rallied, and four regi- 
ments came down and attacked us. We held the line 
until they reached us, and actually took hold of some 
of the men and drew them over the other side of 
the works. Then Major Chandler, who was standing 
near me, said, " Copp, this is tough, is n*t it? We shall 
have to get out ! " at the same time giving the command 
to withdraw — "Every man for himself!" or something 
of that kind. 

The major and myself started along together, and had 
gone perhaps three or four rods when the major pitched 
forward on his face, exclaiming, " I am wounded ! Help 
me off!" I took hold of his arm and assisted him along 
two or three rods, and then he fell again. I got him 
along a rod or two farther, and he fell the third time. 
This time he was nearly exhausted, and looking up to 
me, he said, " For God's sake, Copp, do n't let those d — d 
cusses get hold of me!" "All right. Major," said I, 



1864.] THE WILDERNESS AND SPOTTSYLVANIA. 379- 

" I '11 either get you off, or stay with 3^011;" and calling 
to some of the men who were retreating, I said, "The 
major is wounded ; help me to take him off! " 

A man quickly uncoiled his blanket, and we rolled the 
major onto it. Three men, with myself, started with 
him on the run, dragging him over the ground, and 
through the bushes, till I began to think if he was n't 
dead we should certainly kill him before we could get 
him out of the line of tire. A little to the rear of the 
works which we had carried was a line of old works, 
and I thought I could rally the men enough to check the 
advance of the rebels, in order to save the major. I 
looked for the colors, but they were not in sight. We 
went on a rod or two farther, and then I saw the color- 
bearer, James Prendable, lying on the ground with the 
colors drawn under him. Supposing he had lain down 
to surrender, I gave him a kick and said, "Jim, what 
are you down there for? Get up!" He looked up at 
me — his face white as a sheet — and said, "Captain, I 
can't ; I 'm hit ! " I saw by his appearance that he cer- 
tainly was. 

Drawing the colors from under him, I ran back and 
forth along the line of the retreating men with the col- 
ors, shouting "Rally on the colors, boys ! Rally on the 
colors!" That stopped them, and I placed the flagstaff 
in that line of old breastworks, sixt}'^ or seventy of the 
men gathered around the colors, and facing upon their 
pursuers began to load and fire. The men's guns were 
wet, and not more than half of them would go. Some 
of the men, after two or three trials, would throw away 
their guns, and taking one from a dead or wounded 
comrade, see if that would go. I never heard so much 
swearing in my life as there was that morning about 



380 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [May, 

those guns. In the mean time the men had got the 
major a little farther to the rear, and as it was no use for 
a handful of us to stav there with all that rebel horde 
bearing down on us, we all took to our heels, Corporal 
Parsons snatching the colors from the works and carry- 
ing them safely to the rear. And that 's the story of how 
we saved the major and the colors. 



Captain Copp's heroic conduct on the field at Spottsyl- 
vania, as well as his gallant rescue of the colors at 
Fredericksburg, December 12, 1862, won for him the 
Medal of Honor given by congress for deeds of special 
bravery, a merited recognition of a patriotic and true- 
hearted man. 



TWO LETTERS. 

In Hospital, Fredericksburg, Va., 

Friday Noon, May 13, 1864. 
My dear William : 

I was severely wounded in the engagement of the 9th 

and 6th corps near Spottsylvania C. H. early yesterday 

morning. The ball entered my right thigh and passed 

directly through, but fortunately did not enter the bone. 

I am doing well. Arrived here about an hour ago, and 

hope to get to Washington, and thence home, before 

long. Do not be at all alarmed about me. 

Yours in haste, 

George H. Chandler. 

Fredericksburg, Va., May 17, 1864. 
Since my letter of Friday last I have continued about 
the same, suffering very much, but cheerful and full of 



i864.] THE WILDERNESS AND SPOTTSYLVANIA. 381 

hope. My wound, though very deep and severe, is not 
called by surgeons a dangerous one, and my recovery 
of a very fair use of my leg is only a question of time. 
I am having good medical attendance, and as good 
care and good nursing as can be afforded under present 
circumstances. Rollins and Ordway sent a man from 
Washington specially to look after me. He is here 
now, and will probably remain as long as I do. 

I expect to leave for Washington in a few days, and 
am only waiting for some day when I can take the 
ambulance journey from here to Belle Plain with the 
least inconvenience. From there we take a steamer, 
and the route is easy. Colonel Babbitt was seriously 
wounded on Thursday, and now shares the same mattress 
with me. He is as comfortable as could be expected. 
We now occupy the house of Major Slaughter, whose 
name has been rendered infamous for decoying our 
wounded into the hands of the rebels. 

Give my love to Kate and William, and to Aunt Betsey, 
and say to her that if she has not disposed of uncle's 
crutches, air-beds, easy-chairs, etc., I shall probably 
need most of the stuff, such as is adapted to a cripple. 
Do not grieve about me, I am among kind friends, have 
money enough, and shall not lack anything. I hope to 

see you soon. _ 

Affectionately yours, 

George H. Chandler. 



Caft. C. D. CoP:p.— Soon after the terrible loss of 
our regiment at Spottsylvania, Va., May 12, 1864, and 
while we were on the front line, waiting tbr, we knew 
not what, I noticed that Joseph Dufney of my company 



382 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [May, 

was very sober and quiet. My attention was called to 
this from the fact that he was usually very lively and 
social, consequently a general favorite with all the boys. 
One day while he was standing by the camp-fire, wait- 
ing for his coffee to boil, and looking as though he had 
lost his last friend, I said to him, "Joe, what is the 
matter with you lately ? You do n't act like yourself." 
Without looking up, or changing his position, he replied, 
with a shake of his head, "Something going to happen 
to me, Capt!" " Nonsense, Joe," said I; "cheer up! 
Something 's just as likely to happen to me as to you. 
Do n't be so down-hearted. You're just as likely to come 
out of this and go home all right as I am ; " and walking 
along to the earthworks in front the circumstance passed 
from my mind for the time. 

The i8th of May, the next day after this I think, just 
at daybreak a rumor came to us that we were to be 
relieved and go to the rear for a rest, and very soon we 
were ordered into line ready to move. Almost at the 
same moment a body of troops appeared in our rear, 
advancincj in line of battle. We were ordered to lie 
down, and they, passing over us, and up over our breast- 
works, moved rapidly into the woods to attack the enemy 
in our front. We were immediately ordered into line of 
battle, and moved by the flank a short distance to the 
left, and then to the front again, advancing as a support 
to the troops who had just passed over us, and wlio 
were already having hot work just beyond the woods, 
where they found the enemy in full force. 

It was close work. The bullets, shot, and shell were 
already getting in their deadly work in our own regi- 
ment. Men were falling : some killed, others wounded ; 
but the order, "Forward, men! Forward!" was still 



t864] THE WILDERNESS AND SPOTTSYLVANIA. 383 

heard along the Hne. In going through the woods 
already spoken of our line became broken, and as we 
■came to an opening I was ordered to halt with the colors, 
and my company, and wait for the remainder of my reg- 
iment to reform on my right and left. Dufney was in 
his place in the front rank on the right of the company, 
steady, erect, face to the front. 

We can now see that it was a mistake to halt just there, 
for it was in an exposed position, directly in line of fire 
from the enemy's artillery as well as infantry. Shells 
were exploding all about us, bullets were thinning our 
ranks : seconds seemed minutes, minutes hours, while 
we waited. Suddenly there came a terrific explosion, 
almost in my face. Smoke and dirt filled the air. The 
right of my company seemed to melt into the ground. 
After the dirt had settled and the smoke cleared, I saw 
that the right of my company had indeed melted away. 
Some lay upon the ground killed, others with horrible 
wounds were crawling, or trying to crawl, to the rear. 
Surely something did happen to poor Joe. The shell 
had exploded right in front of him, and his body was 
scattered to the four winds. At this moment the order 
came "Forward !" and we advanced upon the enemy for 
still closer work. I have told the story : Reader, what 
do you think of premonitions? 



Ca^i. C. D. Co-pp. — After the incident related above, 
we advanced a few rods down into a ravine, where we 
were ordered to lie or sit down, to await the result of the 
fighting in our front. This position was somewhat under 
cover, but even here men were frequently being killed 
or wounded. While sitting on the ground, at the right 



384 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [May, 

of my company, I felt an impression that I had better 
move out of that place at once. At first I gave it but lit- 
tle thought, my attention being attracted to others. The 
impression came with such force, however, that finally I 
yielded to it, and without rising moved a little to the left, 
apparently in no safer place, but simply in answer to the 
impression, which I had so strongly, to get out of that 
particular spot. This of course all happened in less 
time than it takes to read it, but the instant I moved a 
bullet came full force and struck in the ground where I 
had been sitting, and which would doubtless have hit me 
in the breast. Can vou tell me who or what it was that 
told me to move? 



Lieutenant Mason. — Young Parsons, when he came 
to be mustered in, was objected to by the mustering 
officer as being both too small and too young. You 
know what a pale-faced youth he always was, and he 
looked as though he was n't more than fourteen years old 
when he joined our regiment. He told me, while I was 
in command of the compan}^ that he put inside of his 
shoes pieces of paper with the figures " 18" on them,, 
and when they put him under oath as to his age he swore 
that he was " over eighteen." In my letter to his mother, 
when he w^as killed at Petersburg a little later in the 
season, I mentioned this fact. His mother was very 
poor, and later on applied for a pension. Imagine my 
surprise, when one day an examiner in the pension ofiice 
came into the room where I was at work w'ith that iden- 
tical letter in his hand. He brought it to me, and said, 
" Is that yours?" I looked at it, recognized the writing, 
and answered "Yes, sir." "Well," said he, "that 



1864.] THE WILDERNESS AND SPOTTSYLVANIA. 385 

will pass the mother's case then." This same Parsons 
was the man who helped save the colors at Spottsylvania, 
who was promoted to be color sergeant for his bravery, 
and who was killed while carrying the colors at Peters- 
burg, July 20, 1864. 



Captain Bahh. — When we were recruiting, there was 
a young man who had n't any parents who desired to join 
the regiment. Eastman would n't pass him, as he was n't 
tall enough, and the poor fellow was very much disap- 
pointed. I told Eastman something of his circumstances, 
and he said, " Well, bring him in again, by and by, and 
perhaps he will pass, for sometimes these boys grow 
very fast." Perhaps somebody gave the boy a " tip ; " 
at any rate, unknown to me, he put something under his 
heels, in his boots, and when he was examined the next 
time he passed all right. His name was Roscoe B. Kid- 
der, and at the Battle of Spottsylvania he had grown to 
be a stout, heavy man. When the rebels swarmed on 
us that morning, Kidder got surrounded, and he turned 
his rifle and swung it round like a wild devil. He laid 
out eight or ten men, and got oft' himself all right. 



Sergeant Diitton. — When we went in at Spottsylva- 
nia, Sergt. James Prendable carried the National colors 
and Corp. Albert R. Wheeler had the State colors. 
There was also a full complement of eight guards. Both 
flags were new and had never been in service, but after 
the battle the National colors had sixteen shots throug-h 
them by actual count, and only one color bearer and 
two of the guard came out untouched, the rest being 



XXV 



^86 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [May, 

wounded, killed, or taken prisoners. It was a close 
place. There was a dense fog. We advanced in line 
with the regiment until we found ourselves in the outer 
works of the enemy ; had just halted there, when up out 
of the fog, not more than a rod or two distant, loomed 
the enemy. They came up in splendid alignment, their 
guns right shoulder shift ; an officer directly in front of 
me holding a pistol out toward us with one hand, and 
keeping his men in line with the other. They came so 
near we could see the white of their eyes, and we had 
only time to fire and get out of it if we could. It was a 
wonder that any got away. When Sergeant Prendable 
fell, wounded, Captain Copp took the colors, and at'ter- 
wards handed them to Private Edward S. Parsons, of 
Company D, who brought them of^'. Corporal Wheeler 
brought ofT the State colors unharmed after the battle. 
Corporal Wheeler resigned his position as bearer of State 
colors. Parsons was promoted to be sergeant and given 
the National colors, and I was given the State colors, 
and we carried them until the explosion of the mine at 
Petersburg. 



A CLOSE SHAVE. 



Corporal Blood, of Company E, was on the sick-list 
at the time the regiment commenced its march to the 
North Anna. To get away from the noise of the regi- 
ment, the last evening it was at Spottsylvania, Blood 
went back from the intrenched line which the men held 
a few rods, rolled himself up in his blanket on the 
ground, and went to sleep. The regiment moved at two 
o'clock the next morning, but no one thought of Blood, 
because he was off duty and taking care of himself, and 



I 







Capt. Edward C. Babb, Co. G. 



1864.] THE WILDERNESS AND SPOTTSYLV^ANIA. 387 

was with the regiment as he pleased. He slept soundly 
until after sunrise, and awoke with the sun shining in his 
face and the thought that everything was remarkably 
still. Raising his head, he saw that our troops had left 
the pits in front, and then, to his consternation, that a 
large scattering of Confederate soldiers was wandering 
around in the woods where our men had been, and were 
looking over the field. Andersonville appeared to Blood 
as a sure thing for a future residence, but thinking he 
would make the best of it, he coolly arose, rolled up his 
blanket, slung it with his other traps over his shoulder, 
picked up his gun, and walked with a careless gait to 
the rear, quickening his steps as he got farther away. 
Fortunately he was not seen, and soon came up with 
the regiment, about five miles to the left, where it had 
stopped. Corporal Blood was a brave and efficient sol- 
dier. He received wounds September 30, 1864, at Pop- 
lar Grove church, from which he died in the hospital at 
Beverly, N. J., November 8th, following. 



THE CAPTURE OF LIEUTENANT WILCOX. 

" As we went into the light, after passing the picket line, 
we went over the hill and into the hollow. There we 
stopped, and were ordered to continue firing as fast as 
possible. While we lay there one of the men was shot 
through the neck, and I remember the blood spurted out 
like a rainbow. Just then another man near me was 
wounded in the arm, and the blood spurted out in the 
same way. I did n't have a tourniquet, but by chance I 
had a piece of tent rope in my pocket, and I tied that 
around his arm and then told him to go to the rear. I 
had n't paid much attention to what was going on around 



388 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [May, 

me, but all at once some one shouted, ' Look out, the 
regiment is retreating!' Then I looked up, and sure 
enough the left of the regiment was making for the rear, 
and I concluded it was time for me to be moving. I had 
not got two rods away before I was surrounded by a half 
dozen rebels, who demanded my surrender. A few nights 
before this some of the officers had been talking about 
being captured, and the suffering that would have to be 
endured in prison, and we had decided that we would n't 
be captured. That all went through m}' mind in a 
moment, but I did n't see how I could help myself, and 
so surrendered." 



DEATH OF CAPTAIN STONE. 

Captain Babb. — As soon as I learned that Captain 
Stone had been wounded, I went back to General Griffin 
and asked permission to hunt him up and see how badly 
he was hurt. It had been reported that he was mortally 
wounded, but the general said he did n't think he was, 
though he finally gave me permission to go. When at 
last I found him, he had been taken quite a distance to 
the rear. I sat with him about two hours, and talked 
with him for some time in regard to liis wound, which 
was in the upper part of the thigh, near the abdomen, 
and had been made by a flying shell. He was ver^' 
bright until, knowing myself that he was mortally 
wounded, I said, " Captain, 3'^ou will probably go home 
now, and I wish you would go and see my family and 
tell them I am all right." He weakened then for the 
first time. "Lieutenant," said he, "I never shall see 
home. This thing wall wind me up, and pretty soon 
too." He lived only one day after that. 




Capt. Andrew J. Stone, Co. F. 



i864.] THE WILDERNESS AND SPOTTSYLVANIA. 389 

Herman A. Clement.— It was on the i8th of May that 
Capt. A. J. Stone, of Company F, while leading the regi- 
ment, was struck in the groin with a piece of shell, a 
wound from which he died, on the 20th, in Fredericks- 
burg. Right here I wish to say that soon after he was 
wounded he was taken from the field and carried to the 
field hospital, where I found him after about an hour's 
search. His wound had been dressed, and he was lying 
in a tent. The moment he saw me he said, "Clem, 
how is the fight going? Were there many of my men 
killed?" He seemed at all times to have his reason, but 
oh, how he did suffer with pain all that night ! Every 
few minutes he would want me to try and turn him one way 
or another ; but as soon as I stirred him the least mite he 
would say, "Oh, I can't stand it!" The next day he 
was taken to Fredericksburg. The hospital was so full 
that I was obliged to lay him on a mattress on the floor, 
but I knew he would not be there long, for his hip and 
legs began to turn black as soon as we arrived there, 
and he suffered the most intense pain until he died, about 
eight o'clock in the evening. I dug his grave alone, 
and oh, how hard the ground was, and how hard it 
seemed to have to lay him in the ground wrapped in a 
blanket ! And to think I should have it to do, for I loved 
him so much— he was always so kind to my poor brother 
Simeon and myself; in fact, to every one, bless his mem- 
ory ! I, for one, shall never forget him. 



Caftain Coff.—On^ of the wounded that were left 
on the field was Edward P. Chapman, of Company F. 
He told me that after we were repulsed the rebels rushed 
right over him as he lay on the ground. Afterwards, 



390 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [May, 

one of them — a straggler, apparently — came along where 
he was, and pulled off his boots and some of his clothing, 
and rifled his pockets, and he let him do it without any 
resistance whatever ; but the fellow, after he found out 
that Chapman was alive, stood up, took aim, and delib- 
erately shot him through the jaw. Supposing that he 
was surely dead this time, the fellow went on and left 
him. Chapman was brought from the field as one of the 
wounded, and is still living, though part of his jaw is 
gone. 



PLAYING 'POSSUM. 
By Sergeant Burnhatn. 

It happened that about the time the regiment broke, 
one of our company, a young Englishman by the 
name of Triggs, had his trousers cut, and his thigh 
grazed, by a Minie ball. It stung at tirst nearly as 
much as though it had gone through his leg. As is not 
uncommon in such cases, he thought himself much worse 
hurt than he really was, and dropping down where he 
would be partially sheltered by stumps and brush, with 
which the field was thickly strewn, he lay there, suppos- 
ing for a time that he was seriously wounded. In a few 
minutes the Johnnies rushed past him in pursuit of us, 
and some of them, noticing Triggs and thinking from 
his looks that he was still able to travel, got him to his 
feet and tried to start him to the rear as their prisoner. 
He protested that he was wounded and could not go, but 
they thought diflerently and made him start. Said he 
afterwards, in telling the story, "About that time I 
thought my chance of getting into Richmond was 
exceedingly good." 



1864.] THE WILDERNESS AND SPOTTSYLVAIVIA. 391 

Certainly it did look that way, but a lucky accident 
came to his relief. At almost the first step he tripped on 
a root or stick of some sort, and tumbled head-first into a 
heap of brush. His captors, who were beginning to 
find the place rather a warm one for themselves, thought 
surely he was used up, and " skedaddled" without wait- 
ing for him. At first Triggs was inclined to laugh at 
the 'possum game he had almost unwittingly played, but 
he soon found he was not yet out of the scrape. There 
he was between two — yes, a half dozen — fires, and the 
bullets, shells, and canister were flying in a perfect 
storm over him, often striking uncomfortably close. He 
had no idea in which direction to go in order to find 
friends ; in fact, the only thing he could do was to crawl 
into the most sheltered spot at hand and hug the ground. 
This he did, and remained in his hiding-place till the 
next morning, when he caught sight of our skirmishers, 
attracted their attention, managed to get to them 
unharmed, and soon afterwards found and rejoined us. 
He thought this, his first lesson in the fighting art, a 
pretty tough one, but was by no means discouraged, and 
in time became one of the best soldiers in the company. 



Sergeant Bitrnham. — Robinson, Case, and I were 
of the searching party that went out after the dead and 
wounded. We had got most of the bodies, and had 
wandered some distance to the right of where we had 
passed through the skirmish line, when suddenly we 
heard the click of rifle-locks just in front of us, and an 
ominous voice ordered " Halt ! " We lost no time in 
obeying, and I, w^ho was unarmed, advanced open- 
handed to the skirmish or picket post, which was behind 



392 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [May, 

some logs, and over the muzzle of a rifle explained who 
we were, and then we were allowed to retire. These 
men had not been notified of our mission, and it is a won- 
der that they did not fire on us without a word of warn- 
ing, while in the opposite direction we must have got 
pretty near the rebel pickets. They tried to draw us on 
by imitating the groans of the w'ounded, and when we 
failed to respond gave us the compliment of a fusillade 
from their muskets. 



SERGEANT BURNHAArS SPECIAL DETAIL. 

"When Grant made his flank movement from Spottsyl- 
vania to the North Anna, our division got under way 
near the middle of the afternoon. We led the corps that 
day, and took, or started to take, a diff'erent and shorter 
route than that of the Second and Fifth corps, who had 
started the night before. We moved out four or five 
miles, struck the telegraph pike from Fredericksburg to 
Richmond, and had turned southward on this, when 
from the opposite bank of a creek — one of the branches 
of the Mattapony — a battery suddenly opened on our 
advance. This brought us to a sudden halt, and a part 
of the division was deployed in the fields and a recon- 
noissance made. 

"The result was the decision to turn north on the pike, 
cross another creek about a mile distant, and take the 
route the other corps had pursued. We had large trains 
in convoy, were in a hurry, and this appeared the short- 
est and surest way I suppose ; but presently another dit- 
ficulty presented itself. The bridge across the creek I 
have mentioned was guarded by a body of Pennsylvania 
cavalry, who, it seems, had not the slightest idea that 



1864.] THE WILDERNESS AND SPOTTSYLVANIA. 393. 

any Federal troops were on the south side of the stream, 
and persisted in firing on everything approaching them 
from that direction. General Potter sent out two or three 
of his staff to communicate with them, but they came 
back unsuccessful, and I suppose did not like to try 
again. At any rate his adjutant-general came to Gen- 
eral Griffin, saying he must have a sergeant who could 
be trusted with a despatch to the commander of the cav- 
alry, and that he must get it to him in some way. 

"Our regiment chanced to be the first at hand, and 
General Griffin called at once on Adjutant Brown for a 
detail. He, for reasons best known to himself, came 
immediately to me, and said General Griffin wanted me 
a few minutes, and ordered a man from another com- 
pany to go with me. I reported, as directed, to General 
Griffin, and to my surprise the adjutant-general I have 
mentioned handed me a pencilled note, told me where 
he wished it carried, and explained the situation, but so 
bunglingly that he made me understand that the cav- 
alry I was to find was on the same side of the stream as 
ourselves. 

"I felt a good deal like telling him that if he had not 
orderlies and bummers enough to do his running for him, 
without taking a poor fellow that carried a knapsack, it 
was my private humble opinion he had better have a 
dozen or two more detailed. Concluding from his looks, 
however, that the less I said the better it would be for 
me, and that it would not look very well to back out, I 
started ofT. It took but a few minutes to walk a mile on 
a straight road and find the bridge. Not a human 
being, as far as I could discover, was within hearing of 
it. I examined the bridge, and found the planks had 
been torn up, but crossing over on one of the sleepers I 



394 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [May, 

looked carefully around, and in the dim light of the 
evening — it was about nine o'clock — could see no one, 
although within twenty feet of the men I was searching 
for. They kept perfectly quiet, and I could not hear a 
sound ; nor did they challenge me, which was what I was 
expecting in case there was an}- one near the bridge and 
on guard. 

"Puzzled completely, I recrossed the bridge, coun- 
selled with the man who had kept me company, and 
we concluded to go back to General Griffin. Accordingly 
we started ; when without a word the Dutch blunder- 
heads, who were in the shadow of some trees just on the 
other bank and had seen me cross and recross the bridge, 
opened fire with their seven-shooters, and the way they 
sprinkled the bullets around us was a caution. It was 
one of the liveliest serenades of that sort that I have ever 
experienced, and there was no doubt about who it was 
intended for, either. We sprang into the ditch beside 
the road, where we were partially sheltered, and got out 
of range as soon as possible. 

"From their being on the opposite side of the stream 
from what I had expected, and their not challenging me, 
I more than suspected that they were rebels, and lost no 
time in reporting to General Griffin. ' Why,' said he, 
' those are the very chaps you want ; you must get that 
despatch to them ; the whole column is waiting for you. 
Hurry up ! ' I expressed my willingness to try it again, 
and hastening back to the company left my knapsack, 
got another man to go with me, — the first being too 
thoroughly scared to want to try it again — and started 
once more. 

"On arriving at the bridge, I found they by some 
means had learned who we were, and had set to work to 



1864.] THE WILDERNESS AND SPOTTSYLVANIA. 395 

replace the planks on the bridge. Of course I had no 
difficulty now in delivering my despatch. A consul- 
tation between the cavalry commander and General 
■Griffin followed, and by the time the bridge was repaired 
the head of the column was ready to cross it, and a rapid 
and all-night march was begun. This was my tirst job 
of the kind, and not only had it been a 'ticklish' piece 
of work, but the extra travel involved, coupled with 
the hard march that followed, made twelve hours of 
work that was near proving too much for me. I think I 
never was so tired in my life as when we halted for 
breakfast the next morning." 



Sergeant Burnham. — That morning at Spottsylvania, 
when the regiment broke and started for the ridge, I 
went along with the rest, for I had no mind to be cap- 
tured if my legs would save me. I had gone only a 
little way when I came against a fallen tree-top, seem- 
ingly too high to leap. Glancing back, I saw that just 
behind me, and to the right also, the rebels were coming 
on. One of them, who was a little in advance of the 
rest, levelled his rifle and yelled, " Halt, you d — d 
Yank ! " There was no time to run around that tree-top, 
or even to deliberate upon the situation. 

I was loaded down with knapsack, haversack, can- 
teen, rifle, and accoutrements, all on over my overcoat, 
which was wet and heavy from the rain, but I made the 
" greatest effort of my life," — in the jumping line at 
least — and put myself the other side of that tree-top ; not, 
however, without catching my foot in the topmost branch, 
causing me to light on all fours and to plant my rifle 
muzzle down in the soft ground. The Johnny who had 
ordered me to halt sent his compliments — apparently a 



396 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [May, 

ball and buckshot — through my coat-tail ; at least I cred- 
ited him with the hole I afterwards discovered in the gar- 
ment. 

Some comrades who were just at my left when we 
started had passed around the tree, and as I sprawled 
on the ground I heard one of them exclaim, " Burnham 
is hit ! " " Not yet ! " I snarled, as I righted myself and 
snatched my rifle from where it had stuck in the mud. 
Then I made the best possible time towards the crest of 
the little ridge just in the edge of the timber, where we 
had changed our front in our impetuous advance, and 
towards which our broken line was rushing back as the 
first possible place at which to reform and make a stand. 
I was tempted at first to leave my rifle sticking where it 
was, but only for an instant. " That gun is going as 
far as I go ! " was the determination that I came to, 
though it was only serviceable after being cleared of 
about a pint of moist earth. Another thought that 
flashed through my mind was to throw oflf my knapsack, 
but this was immediately followed by the reflection that it 
covered and partially protected quite a portion of my 
exposed rear, and I concluded to hang onto the knapsack. 

Although I was the youngest sergeant in the company, 
I was that morning assisting Lieutenant Robinson, who 
was in command of the company, by doing the work of 
a lieutenant, and during the fight when we first met the 
rebel column, I had all I could do to keep some of our 
recruits, who were having their first baptism of fire, in 
their places and to their proper work of discharging 
their muskets — somewhere near, at least — in the right 
direction. One man — one of our original number, I 
am sorry to say — I made it my especial duty to keep 
in his place that morning. He tried all sorts of excuses 



i864.] THE WILDERNESS AND SPOTTSYLVANIA. 397 

for getting out of the ranks, but I kept right behind 
him, and made him go as far as anybody went; at the 
expense, however, of a good many threats and sundry 
prickings of the bayonet. It was the first and only time 
he was ever got fairly under fire. 

Sergeant Burnham.-Kmong the wounded that our 
searching party brought off^ the first night we went out, 
was my friend Tracy, who had lain on the field some 
forty hours with one leg broken and shattered below the 
knee by a Minie ball. The next morning I cooked and 
carried to him as good a breakfast as I could command, 
and had quite a chat with him about his experience be- 
tween the time he was wounded and our finding him. 
He told me that the rebels, when they passed over the 
ground, took oft^ as prisoners such wounded as could 
walk, but seeing that he could not, they left him undis- 
turbed. One of them, more humane than the rest, 
threw him a canteen of water that had been dropped 
near by, and without which he must have suffered 
greatly from thirst. He was on rather low ground, and 
though a perfect storm of bullets passed just above him 
all day Thursday, and he was momentarily expecting 
to be struck, he had escaped further injury. He was 
quite bright and cheerful that morning, and seemed to 
have considerable strength, considering how much of a 
strain he had undergone in his long and dangerous 
exposure. About noon he was taken to the rear to a 
hospital, where his leg was amputated. The surgeon 
was hopeful that he could save him at first, but erysipe- 
las set in after the amputation, and in a few days he 
died, one of the best men and Christians I ever knew. 



398 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [May^ 

Sergt. jV. T. Dtitton. — Sergeant Tracy died in 
Washington, June 6, 1864, about four o'clock in the 
afternoon of the day he reached there. By some 
means, at the landing in the morning, he was sepa- 
rated from the wounded of his own division and car- 
ried with other wounded to another hospital. His wife, 
who had been notified of his wounds, reached Wash- 
ington the same morning, but not finding him in his 
proper place, went from hospital to hospital all day 
long, and only found his body about an hour after he 
had died. The stroke was too hard. She took the 
body with her to New Hampshire for burial, soon began 
to fade away, and in the next fall died, and was laid 
beside her husband, her life as much a sacrifice for 
country as his. Inseparable in love and devotion for 
each other, they were likewise for their country, and 
" in death were not divided." 



Sergt. N. T. Dution. — Corporal Elmer Bragg, of 
Company E, was wounded in the head, the ball lodg- 
ing just under the skin near the temple. He was taken 
prisoner at Spottsylvania, and was carried to Belle Isle 
near Richmond, where he remained, with his wound 
undressed and the ball unremoved, until August, 1864, 
when he was exchanged and taken to Annapolis, Md. 
From lack of attention to his wound, and starvation' 
rations, he became very much emaciated, and reached 
the hospital there more dead than alive. His father 
came on to see him and take him home. At sight of 
him Bragg rallied, and seemed much better. The 
father's business demanded his immediate attention, 
and leaving his son to gain strength for the journey he- 
returned home. Corporal Bragg did not live to reach 



1864.] THE WILDERNESS AND SPOTTSYLVANIA. 399. 

the home and friends he so dearly loved, for that very 
night a reaction set in and he died. His case is illus- 
trative of thousands of others. Corporal Bragg was 
pursuing his studies at Kimball Union academy, Meri- 
den, N. H., when he enlisted. He was a most sturdy 
and faithful young man and Christian. He was always 
cheerful and ready in his duty, and patient under the 
great burdens of service and suffering. In his diary, 
which he kept while at Belle Isle, he daily described 
his rations — a small piece of corn-bread, an inch or two 
square, a morsel of meat or a trifle of samp, which 
only served to prolong his suffering and starvation ; 
vet he often closed the dav's record with these words, — 
" How thankful I ought to be to God for all his good- 
ness to me." 



A FEW STRAY SHOTS. 

Soon after the regiment entered the slashed timber 
General Griffin sent one of his aids. Lieutenant Bur- 
bank, to Major Chandler, with an order for the regi- 
ment to come back ; but they were under full headway 
on the charge, and what with the confusion, the yelling, 
the bursting of shells, and all, the order failed to reach 
them, and they kept on their way. When this fact was 
reported by the orderly to General Griffin, the general 
remarked, "If they have gone in there, you can say 
good-bye to the Ninth New Hampshire." 



As the regiment was making ready for the advance, a 
man came along, without any gun or equipments, and 
took his place in the company to which he belonged. 
The commanding officer said to him, " What are you 



400 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [May, 

here for without any arms?" "Oh, never mind," said 
the soldier, "some of these fellows will be dead pretty 
soon, and then I can have all I want!" He soon 
equipped himself. 



Another man, who was in the rear rank, was troubled 
a good deal by a front rank man not keeping up. After 
pushing against the fellow several times, he tinally 
seized him by the shoulder and said, "You get into 
the rear rank and let me step into the front!" He had 
hardly got into place when he was shot. 



For close shaves, Provencher, of Company E, and 
Plummer, of Company B, can divide the honors. Pro- 
vencher had the visor of his cap and the back of his 
blouse shot clean off, without getting a scratch himself, 
while Plummer had his cartridge box blown to flinders 
and every cartridge destro3^ed. Both men were pretty 
thoroughly shaken up by their adventures, and they 
were really remarkably narrow chances. 



CORPORAL MAYO-S EXPLOIT. 

To begin with, when the regiment was getting ready 
to go in, on that foggy, drizzly morning of the 12th, at 
Spottsylvania, Lieutenant Robinson, who was com- 
manding the compan}^ then, told me I had better remain 
where I was and not go in. I had, at that time, been 
prostrated with fever and ague for several days, but I 
told him I guessed I would keep along with them the 
best I could. As the regiment went over the ridge it 





Corp. Lysander R. Mayo, Co. E. 



Nathan Cushing, Co. E. 





Benjamin Gray, Co. E. 



James C. Ayer, Co. E. 



1864.] THE WILDERNESi> AND SFOTTSYLVANIA. 4OI 

went to the left, in order to make connections, leaving 
quite a gap between our corps and the Second. I went 
over the ridge to the ravine where the brook was, and 
all at once I heard some one sing out, "Drop that 
gun!" and looking up I saw two Johnnies, with a 
wounded prisoner between them ; but they both had 
their guns drawn on me, so I dropped mine according 
to orders, for it was n't the time or place to argue on the 
question. 

They started ofT with us, to go back to their regiment, as 
they supposed, sending me on ahead, with the wounded 
man, who was a Dutchman, following on behind. I 
kept bearing to the right until we got to the road that 
came out behind the Second corps, but when I got in 
sight of that, and saw the straggling blue-coats coming 
in from all directions, I wheeled around and said, "Do 
you know where you are?" Considerably startled by the 
question, after a hasty glance around they confessed 
that they did not " exactly." "Well," said I, "I do, 
and I'll tell you. You're inside our lines now, my 
boys, and the quicker you hand over those guns the 
better, for if our boys get sight of 3'ou here you'll get a 
bullet before you have time to throw them down ! " 

They got down in a little hollow, and kept their guns 
drawn on me for a few minutes, but finally one of them 
said, " Where '11 they carry us if we surrender?" "I 
do n't know," said I, " but I suppose to Point Lucock." 
Then one of them threw his gun down, and the other 
reversed his and handed it to me. 1 took the gun, and 
then knocked the cap off and put on a new one. 
"What are you doing that for?" said he, " the gun is 
all right!" " Well," said I, "I just wanted to be sure 
there was a fresh cap on." I started the Johnnies 

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402 NIiYTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [May, 

ahead, and told them whicli way to go, but they kept 
begging, " Oh, for God's sake do n't take us up to the 
front!" "You keep still," said I ; "I rather guess I 
know my way out of this." 

The first thing that fetched me up was when I got to 
where General Burnside and his staff were. One of the 
aids came up to me, and I asked him where to take my 
prisoners, and he told me. We had to go back on the 
hill, and when I got them there and turned them over to 
the officer of the day, I said to him, "I captured these 
two men alone, after thev had travelled me around in 
the woods for a while, and I want something to show 
for it." He asked me what my name was, and I told 
him ; and then he stepped into the marshal's office, and 
wrote me a receipt for two prisoners of war, which I 
still have in my possession. 



The following is a copy of the receipt given to the 
plucky Yankee corporal : 

Prov. Marshal qth A. Corps. 
Received of Corporal Mayo, of the 9th N. Hamps., 2 (two) prisoners 
of war. 

Near Spottsylvania Court-house, May 12th, 1864. 

G. H. Aiken, 

Lt. %th Infantry, 
Officer of ill e day. 



■SSf.- 



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.^flp w^ 



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Sergt. Charles S. Stevens. 



CHAPTER XII. 

From the North Anna to Petersburg. 

When the Army of the Potomac struck the North 
Anna, on the afternoon of May 23, it found its wary 
opponent securely intrenched on the opposite side of 
the river, ready to dispute its passage. The enemy's 
widely diverging lines, reaching back from two to three 
miles, formed a salient just across from the point where 
the commander of the Ninth corps had brought his forces 
to a halt. It was apparent that an attempt to cross at 
Ox ford, must be attended with serious and useless loss 
of life. Accordingly the corps was divided, the First 
division being dispatched to the aid of Warren, who, 
holding the right of the line, had succeeded in making 
a crossing at Jericho ford, where the enemy, at first in 
slender force, but soon re-enforced by six brigades of 
Hill's corps, attacked and was driven back with heavy 
loss, enabling Warren to establish and intrench his 
lines; the Second division to the assistance of Hancock, 
who, striking the river at Chesterfield bridge, a mile 
above the Fredericksburg railroad, was confronted by 
McLaws's division of Longstreet's corps, but attacking, 
had carried the bridge by six in the afternoon, the 
enemy, after repeated efforts to burn the bridge during 
the night, retreating and leaving the way clear for 
Hancock to cross in the morning of the 24th ; while the 
Third division was retained in the rear of the ford, and 



404 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [May, 

succeeded in seizing and holding a small island in the 
river on the following day. 

The army had crossed the river with but small loss, 
but the game was by no means won, and the longer 
General Grant studied the ground the stronger became 
his conviction that Lee's position was practically invul- 
nerable, and only to be wrested from him at a frightful 
sacrifice. Deliberate and careful reconnoissances were 
made during the 25th and 26th, but there was no encoun- 
ter of the forces except a brush which occurred in the 
afternoon of the latter date, when the Second division 
of the Ninth corps drove back the enemy's entire front 
and advanced its own line to a highly favorable posi- 
tion. That night the army cautiously withdrew from 
the enemy's front, crossed the river, and, bearing first 
to the east and then to the south, took the road to Rich- 
mond, the Sixth corps having the advance, and being 
followed by the Fifth, Ninth, and Second. The morn- 
ing of the 29th found the whole army south of the 
Pamunkey, and in close communication with its new 
base at White House. 

This move had been made in accordance with General 
Grant's determination to again attempt to turn Lee's 
right flank, and by crossing the Pamunkey the approach 
to Richmond was considerably shortened by a move- 
ment across Tolopotomoy creek, by way of Cold Harbor 
and Bethesda church. Lee, on the watch and having 
the usual advantage of a shorter road, was already in 
position on the new front, his army, across Tolopoto- 
moy creek, with its right on Mechanicsville pike, near 
Bethesda church, covering both railroads as well as the 
road to Richmond. The Ninth corps crossed the creek 
on the 30th, establishing itself after some particularly 



1864.] FROM THE NORTH ANNA TO PETERSBURG. 405 

sharp skirmishing, more especially in front of the Second 
division ; the whole line, on the following day, being 
moved forward quite a distance. 

The advance was made late in the afternoon, the 
troops crossing an open field with great spirit in face 
of a heavy fire, carrying the larger part of the enemy's 
front line of rifle-pits, and taking about six hundred 
prisoners. The Confederate forces, now thoroughly 
aroused, defended the second line with such stubborn 
resistance that further advance was impossible, and 
though the Army of the Potomac bivouacked that night 
on advanced ground, it was at the cost of more than 
2,000 killed and wounded soldiers. Two days were 
devoted to establishing and strengthening the lines, 
the sharpshooters on both sides keeping up a lively fire 
while these movements were going on in the rear. 

The Ninth corps had been removed from its position 
in the centre, and on the night of June 2 occupied the 
extreme right, its own right partially exposed and its 
left resting near Bethesda church, while the main line 
stretched back to a point not far from the Tolopotomoy. 
The movement had not been made without loss however, 
for, being done in broad daylight, it had been quickly 
detected by the enemy, who, following up the skirmish- 
ers that were covering the operation, succeeded in 
taking quite a number of them as prisoners ; and still 
farther pursuing their advantage by an assault on War- 
ren's left, — he being next in line to the Ninth — captured 
nearly four hundred more, before their further advance 
was checked. 

That night General Grant resolved to attempt to force 
the Confederate lines on the morrow, with the purpose 
of opening the passage of the Chickahominy and driv- 



4o6 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [June, 

ing Lee into the intrenchments around Richmond. The 
assault was begun by a discharge of artillery along the 
Union lines, about sunrise on the 3d of June, which was 
quickly followed by a magnificent charge on the left — 
a charge which swept everything before it and for a 
brief space of time gave to the bold invaders the posses- 
sion of the highest point of the enemy's position. But 
the supporting columns were not at hand to secure the 
advantage thus gained, and the enemy rallied, poured 
an enfilading fire upon the isolated detachment, and 
finally compelled them to choose between an abandon- 
ment of the captured position and utter annihilation. 
Three thousand in killed and wounded was a high price 
to pay for an advanced position and three hundred pris- 
oners, surely ! 

From the centre the assaults were less determined, 
and also less sanguinary, while on the right the Ninth 
corps sustained the brunt of the battle. The Second and 
Third divisions, swinging around to flank the enemy's 
left, were hotly engaged, but made a decided advance ; 
establishing themselves face to face witii the foe, they 
awaited the order to move upon the second and stronger 
line of the coveted position. But General Meade felt 
there had been sacrifice enough, for already thousands 
of men were writhing on the blood-stained sod, and Gen- 
eral Burnside was ordered to cease offensive operations. 
The skirmish line was drawn in, the position strength- 
ened, and when the enemy, presuming on the non- 
pursuance of the advantage already gained, ventured 
an assault during the afternoon, the}'^ were quickly and 
vigorously repulsed. The army had suffered terribly, 
the killed and wounded in the Ninth corps alone num- 
bering more than a thousand : and it had all been in 



1864.] FROiM THE NORTH ANNA TO PETEKSBUKG. 407 

vain, for the road to Richmond was still in the posses- 
sion of the enemy, and the impossibility of crossing the 
Chickahominy at this 'point proved. 

On the 5th and 6th the enemy essayed attacks at dif- 
ferent points along the Union lines, but was successfully 
repulsed each time. Then, under cover of an armistice, 
the wounded were removed from between the lines and 
the dead were buried. Meanwhile General Meade was 
carefully maneuvering for a change of base, purposing 
to throw his army across to the south bank of the James. 
The next few days were devoted to preparations for the 
movement, a monotony unbroken by any event save an 
occasional shot from a watchful picket or the dull boom 
of the mortars. On the night of the 12th the Army of 
the Potomac was southward bound, and the campaign 
north of the James river was a thing of the past. 

It was manifest that Grant was about to hazard 
another flank movement. Richmond was not so much 
the objective point as was Lee's army, and this Grant 
had hoped to defeat in open action ; but from the time 
of Lee's attack and repulse in the Wilderness the enemy 
had fought only defensive battles, and those from behind 
strongly intrenched vvorks. Grant's persistent " ham- 
mering " had been successful in this respect if in no 
other, and the first breach had been made in the walls 
of the citadel. It was time now for a change in tactics, 
and Sheridan's cavalry having destro3'ed the railroads 
running north from Richmond, thus rendering Washing- 
ton safe from any serious danger, the Union commander 
was ready to move his army southward and attack Rich- 
mond through Petersburg, the citadel of the Confederate 
capital. 

So skilfully and so secretly was the army withdrawn 



408 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [May 

from its position, that while General Lee was not witli- 
out knowledge of the movement, until he heard of Gen- 
eral Smitli's preliminary assault on the north-eastern 
line of the defences of Petersburg, on the 15th, he did 
not know for what point the Army of the Potomac was 
making. The Ninth corps, marching by way of Tun- 
stall's Station, reached a point not far from Sloane's 
crossing of the Chickahominy just before night came on 
of the 13th, and bivouacked, crossing the river at early 
dawn. The night and the following day were spent with 
the Sixth corps on the James river. Crossing by pon- 
toons on the evening of the 15th, the corps now pushed 
rapidly on towards Petersburg, in order to share in the 
operations of the forces under Smith and Warren, and 
was closely followed by the Fifth. By ten o'clock on 
the morning of the i6th the advance division was in 
front of Petersburg, and a little after noon the entire 
corps was in position on the extreme left of the line. 



THE ITINERARY OF THE RANK AND FILE. 

From their hasty bivouac near the North Anna, on 
the night of the 23d of May, the wearied sleepers were 
roused at an early hour on the following morning by the 
sharp firing of skirmishers, who seemed to be at no very 
great distance. The troops were not moved until about 
noon, however, when, after following a somewhat circuit- 
ous route, the river was crossed about a half mile to the 
north of the bridge of the Virginia Central railroad, and 
a line of battle was formed. The bridge and its 
approaches were commanded by a Confederate bat- 
tery, which pitilessly showered the unprotected foot- 



1864.] FROM THE NORTH ANNA TO PETERSBURG. 409 

soldiers with shells, as in long and serried ranks they 
hurried across the dangerous pathway. The Ninth New 
Hampshire men were getting the knack of dodging 
these missiles perhaps, for not a man in the regiment 
was injured. The troops lay on their arms that night, 
but the only disturber of their peaceful slumbers was a 
terrific thunder-shower, succeeded by a heavy rain 
which lasted until morning. Everything was quiet dur- 
ing the day, but in anticipation of a possible night 
attack the men were set to work building breastworks, 
a task that was not completed until near night. Then 
it began to rain again, and with no protection but their 
blankets the men passed rather an uncomfortable night. 

During the afternoon of the 26th there was heavy 
skirmish firing from both sides, and quite a number of 
men were wounded. In the evening a skirmishing 
party was sent out, who succeeded in burning the bridge 
by which the river had been crossed two days previous. 
Tramping around in the mud until two o'clock in the 
morning was not a very pleasant experience, to say the 
least, and the hardness of the couch did not disturb 
the heavy slumbers of the tired soldiers when they were 
finally ordered to turn in. It was late in the forenoon 
before the hurried preparations for an onward move of 
the corps aroused them, and by eleven o'clock the long 
and tedious march had begun. The route lay to the 
south, between the Mattapony and the Pamunkey, and 
the roads, deep with mud, were soon worn into ruts by 
the steady tread of marching feet. 

On and on, through all the long, hot afternoon, with 
slow but constant progress they marked the hours. At 
sunset there was a brief halt for coffee, but it was long 
past midnight when the men threw themselves on the 



4IO NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [May, 

ground to snatch a few hours' rest. Routed out at 
daybreak, they were again on the road by six o'clock, 
and with onl}' occasional halts for rest the march was 
kept vip until two the next morning — twenty hours on 
a stretch. No wonder they were footsore, and that 
thousands fell out by the way ; no wonder the men 
grumbled, for rations were short, and empty stomachs 
are not conducive to good temper. 

The Pamunkey had been crossed shortly after mid- 
night, some ten miles to the north of White House land- 
ing, and the army had bivouacked about a mile beyond 
the crossing. It was Sunday morning, but it brought 
no baked beans and brown bread to the hungry soldiers : 
instead, they were ordered to the front, and set to work 
digging rifle-pits, without any breakfast whatever. In 
the afternoon they fell back to the woods to rest, and 
having received a ration of fresh beef, cooked and ate 
their suppers with the zest that only hungry men can 
know. This, with the added luxury of a good night's 
rest, Droved to be a most effectual tonic for both mind 
and body, and the morning of the 30th found them as 
cheery and ready for work as ever. 

That day's fortune for the regiment opened with a 
mail from home. The detail to serve as rear-guard for 
the trains was equally welcome, and the task was easier 
by far than the slow drudger}^ of the pick and shovel 
that had been their lot on the day before. There was 
brisk firing all day at the front, and all night long the 
guns of the batteries kept up their thunderous booming — 
an accompaniment that seems to act as a lullaby to the 
veteran soldier. It was very warm on the 31st, and 
during the early hours of the morning the men had a 
chance to cook and eat breakfast at their leisure, and to 



1864.] FROM THE NORTH ANNA TO PETERSBURG. 4II 

clean up a little — a novel enough experience in those 
days. Their " soft job" soon came to an end, however, 
for noon found the regiment with the rest of the brigade, 
right at the front. 

The line of battle was at first formed in the edge 
of a piece of pine woods, and the men at once set 
about providing themselves with breastworks, but before 
much had been accomplished in this direction a further 
advance was ordered, the Ninth being detailed to lead 
in the support for the skirmishers. The line is quickly 
formed, the regiment pushes on through a quarter of a 
mile of thick forest, then down into a ravine and up its 
opposite bank. Driving the Confederate pickets before 
them as they advance, they hurriedly clamber up the 
steep side of the ridge on whose crest the enemy lies 
intrenched. The struggle is short and sharp, a dozen 
or so of men are wounded, and a few fall, never to rise 
again — but the works are ours, and the Ninth is fully 
deserving of the many compliments showered upon it 
for its gallant conduct. 

The rest of the line now arrived, and closing in on 
the right and left of the Ninth, soon placed themselves 
behind quite formidable intrenchments, a skirmish line 
also being established in front. The Ninth occupied 
this a part of the afternoon, and had the pleasure of 
sending the Johnnies a few leaden compliments in return 
for their own unwelcome favors. A brisk skirmishing 
was kept up until dark, the heavy fighting being carried 
on more to the left, and the night was spent in the 
trenches, one half of the men doing duty while the 
others slept ; but no advances were attempted on either 
side. 

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412 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [June, 

cooped up in the hot trenches all day a spell of cool 
weather would not have seemed amiss. There was 
more or less skirmishing through the day, but towards 
night the firing increased, and by sunset the lighting 
had spread along the line for miles. The thunder of 
the artillery, the screaming and bursting of the shells, 
the crash and rattle of the musketry, were almost 
deafening for a time ; but the occupants of the rifle-pits 
were not disturbed, and the night soon wore away its 
lencrth. 

At daybreak on the 2d the regiment was with- 
drawn, and retiring to the woods rested till noon, when 
a move of a few miles was made to the left, which 
brought them to the vicinity of Bethesda church, around 
which a large body of troops were then massed. In the 
afternoon a heavy shower came up, and just at sunset, 
as the men were making their coffee for supper, and 
enjoying to the full the cool evening breeze that swept 
down from the hills, the sound of tremendous musketry 
firing to the rear of the lines broke in upon the quiet. 
Coffee and everything else was forgotten in the lively 
work that followed. The enemy had made a dash on 
the rear lines, and had been beaten off, though he still 
clung to as close a position as it was possible to hold. 
The Ninth, with its brigade, was thrown out on the 
right flank, and had a lively race for some breastworks, 
which it succeeded in occupying before the enemy could 
reach them. The regiment held the reserve, or front 
side of the works, and spent a good share of the night 
in rebuilding them. 

The morning dawned, thick witii clouds and heavy 
with rain, but with the first gleam of light a perfect 
tornado of lead and iron swept through field and forest, 



1864.] FROM THE NORTH ANNA TO PETERSBURG. 413 

and sheets of flame and clouds of smoke mingled in 
frightful masses, as wave after wave, surge after surge, 
tide after tide of murderous fire ebbed and flowed along 
the far extended lines, each of them sweeping hundreds 
of souls into eternity. The division was engaged more 
or less hotly all day, but the Ninth, having been detailed 
for support of a battery, were considerably sheltered by 
the earthworks, and lost only a few men. At nightfall 
they were moved to a position at the front, and began 
to throw up breastworks, an occupation in which they 
were beginning to rank as experts, for in an incredibly 
short time they were able to get up a pretty good shelter 
from the bullets of the enemy. That the regiment's 
actual participation in the conflict of the day was con- 
fined to the support of those who were actively engaged 
is true, but very apropos as to the effectiveness with 
which they performed the task assigned them, comes 
the following : 

One of the chaplains, ever on the alert for the welfare 
of his wayward charges, happened to get into the vicin- 
ity of the battery right in the thick of the fight. The 
Confederate shells were plowing furrows about the guns, 
and the cannoneers were grimly and diligently address- 
ing themselves to the work of giving back shot for shot. 
The chaplain watched them very attentively for a while, 
but finally edging his way up to one of the gunners, who 
was very proficient, but at the same time rather profane, 
the good man, in simple justice to his calling, could not 
refrain from a gentle remonstrance. " My dear friend," 
said he, " if you go on this way, can you expect the sup- 
port of Divine Providence ?" ''A'n't expectin' it," said 
the gunner; "the Ninth New Hampshire has been 
ordered to support this battery." 



414 NINTH NE W HAMPSHIRE. [J uiie, 

The next day dawned clear and beautiful, but the 
enemy had taken advantage of the darkness to withdraw 
from the front, leaving his dead upon the field. The 
ground they had occupied showed the terrible destruc- 
tion that had been wrought in their ranks, and one bat- 
tery in particular, which lay just within range of the 
position held by the Ninth, had evidently lost about all 
their horses and a good many men. They had managed 
to get the guns off, but had left one caisson filled with 
ammunition and blown up another. Towards night the 
division was moved about two miles to the left, relieving 
a division of the Fifth corps and spending the niglit in 
the trenches. Showery nights were the rule rather than 
the exception, and this night was no exception to the 
rule, for the men, snugly wrapped in their blankets 
though they were, got a pretty thorough wetting before 
morning. , 

A week slipped away behind the breastworks, first in 
one position and then in another, the division holding 
the extreme right of the line and doing more or less 
skirmishing. Sunday, the 12th, orders came for the 
line to be ready to move at dark, and by eight in the 
evening they were on the road, making the start as 
quietly as possible and leaving out a picket line that 
remained on guard till three in the morning. The 
troops marched all night, and the five-o'clock halt for 
breakfast found them within three miles of White House 
landing. Here they rested till noon, when they were 
again put in motion and kept on the road until midnight, 
covering only about ten miles however, owing to the 
crowded condition of the roads. The route followed 
was across country, towards the James, for the most 
part through a region so sandy and poor that the only 



1864.] FROM THE NORTH ANNA TO PETERSBURG. 415 

thing that could make any growth in it was pine trees, 
and not very big ones at that. 

The Chickahominy was reached and crossed in the 
forenoon of the 14th, and after haUing for dinner there 
was no more rest till night, when bivouac was made 
about two miles from Harrison's landing on the James. 
The Sixth corps was established at this point, and the 
15th was spent quietly in camp, giving the men a chance 
to rest and clean up a little. At dark orders came to 
move, and hardly time enough for the necessary issuing 
of rations was allowed before the troops were started for 
the river, which was crossed on a pontoon bridge nearly 
a half mile in length. Once across, the column pushed 
on as rapidly as possible towards Petersburg, now some 
thirty miles away. 



A DRUMMER BOY'S SERVICE IN THE RANKS. 
By Frank S. Ritter. 

On the 29th of May the regiment relieved the Twenty- 
first Massachusetts as guards of the division wagon train. 
On the morning of the 30th we were again ordered to 
the front, to strengthen the picket line. In making this 
advance we had to pass through a large tract of heavy 
timber, in which were several ravines with an under- 
growth of sweetbrier, and in the farther edge of the 
woods was a very deep ravine, with abrupt sides which 
were very difficult to climb. A few yards in advance 
of this ravine was an irregular breastwork, in front of 
which, at one place, in plain view, were two Johnnies, 
loading and firing as if the fate of rebeldom hung on 
their efforts. One shot hit three members of the com- 
pany, — one in the hip, one in the knee, and the third 



41 6 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [June, 

in the ankle. The first one came back to us after 
several months, but the other two never recovered, and 
never will. I endeavored to reply to this shot, but my 
musket being without a cap, — which had come off some- 
how in passing through the brush — failed to speak, and 
before I could recap the piece the Johnnies were out of 
reach. 

We halted at the breastworks and began to strencthen 
them, and learned later that had we but advanced a lit- 
tle, to the edge of the ravine, we might have captured 
several prisoners. Here we lay for two days, most of 
the time under a heavy fire from our artillery. In the 
afternoon of the first or second day of June, the Second, 
Fifth, and Ninth corps were massed in a field but a 
short distance from Bethesda church, and while there 
we experienced the inconvenience of one of those sud- 
den Vircrinia showers. How it did rain ! And how we 
enjoyed it, without an}^ kind of a shelter but the sky 
above us, and that sending down a perfect deluge of 
water ! Having lost my rubber blanket back at Spott- 
sylvania, — some one having borrowed it to carr}- off a 
wounded comrade and failed to return it — I was but a 
sorry looking object when at last the clouds broke 
away. 

Hardly had the drops ceased to fall when we were 
startled by the crash of a heavy volley of musketry. 
The rear-guard was the Second New York mounted 
rifles, — but they were never mounted I think — who were 
equipped with breech-loading or repeating rifles. How 
those volleys did crash ! How the staff officers did gal- 
lop about, and what a swarm of men there was to get 
into their proper positions, and with a mighty short 
time to do it in too ! A. P. Hill was after us, and he 




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did not mean to let us get any advantage. Soon our 
brigade was in line, and running for some breastworks 
across an open field. It was " Get there, Eli ! " with a 
vengeance, for we wanted those breastworks and so did 
Hill ; but we got there first, although we were on the 
reverse side. Such a race as it had been ! Immediately 
behind the breastworks was a large field of sweet pota- 
toes, just well growing, and the soil was so soft from 
the shower that w^e went in nearly over ankles at every 
step. At the rear and to the left of the potato patch was 
a set of buildings, while nearly all the way back to the 
church — about a third of a mile, as I should judge now — 
the ground was covered with running blackberry vines. 
Having worn out my shoes some days before, I had the 
iDest of reasons for remembering the run for those breast- 
works. We lay at the works that night, and the Third 
Massachusetts battery was throwing shells over our 
heads about every minute it seemed ; but for all our dis- 
<;omforts we slept, and I for one slept well. 

Early the next morning a battery was moved up to 
the works just at the right of the regiment, and we were 
ordered to support it. The buildings spoken of were 
taken as a division hospital, and as the rest of the divi- 
sion were advanced, and the fire soon became a deaf- 
ening roar, the wounded men began to pour back, and 
those of the men who could be spared were detailed to 
help the wounded across the field to the hospital. I 
went with one, a member of the Sixth New Hampshire, 
who was shot somewhere in the arm, and as he had to 
wait for his turn he lay down in the shade of one of the 
buildings. Hardly had I left him when a solid shot 
passed completely through his body. 

About noon a member of Company A, who claimed 

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4l8 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [June, 

to be blind but had been detailed as a cook lor the 
officers' mess, came up with their dinner, and while 
dishing it out a shell burst overhead. He just dumped 
that grub and put for the rear, but had gone only a 
little way when another one exploded, wa}' oft' in his 
front, and turning to the left he was off" again. How 
the mud did fly and how we did laugh at his antics I 
Soon he was directly in the rear of the batter}', when ofT 
went two or three of them at once. Nature could do no 
more ; he was completely fagged out, and nearly scared 
to death. Some one went to him, and helped him to 
the rear, and in a few days he was discharged, and 
should have been months before. 

Just before dark we were taken by the right flank up 
to the advanced line, but the regiment was not dis- 
turbed ; there was considerable noise over where we 
expected the Johnnies were, but no firing. At day- 
light a light skirmish line was sent out, who reported 
no enemy in our front, and we were soon looking over 
the field. Near our line lay several dead men, and 
one of them had on a pair of good boots that seemed 
to be about my size. What would the reader do in 
the same fix? The reader wants to know what I did? 
Well, I borrowed the boots and wore them out. Qj-iite 
a little distance from us was a piece of woods with an 
acute angle to the brigade line, and here in the angle 
was the Confederate battery which our own battery 
had been shelling nearly all the day before. I saw 
an exploded limber, a disabled caisson, and sixty-nine 
dead horses. Between this angle and some slight 
intrenchments which our troops had thrown up the 
night before, was a small clump of bushes, and in 
these bushes I found a young calf — perhaps it was three 



1 364-] FROM THE NORTH ANNA TO PETERSBURG. 419 

weeks old — shot through the body and lying out at full 
length. I had seen hundreds of dead men and not felt 
a quiver, but that little dead calf caused the tears to 
come unbidden. 

That afternoon we were marched to Cold Harbor, 
and were there several days, but did not see much 
fighting. While there we changed our position twice, 
and on the last day's stay I was detailed for picket 
duty. Here the pickets were sent out in detachments, 
four men and a corporal. We were posted just after 
dark, and before morning had a rifle-pit large enough 
to hold us all. We occasionally sent back to the regi- 
ment during the day, and we found that if a man went 
as if he did n't care whether he was seen or not, the 
Johnnies did not trouble him ; but if one tried to sneak 
or skulk along, he was sure to get fired at. Some 
time in the afternoon we were informed that at 9 p. m. 
the brigade was to retire, but that we must hold the 
picket line until two the next morning, and then follow. 

How slowly the hours passed that night, for each 
man knew what was expected of him, and each man 
hoped that he would not see or hear of anything. At 
midnight word was passed to fasten everything so as 
not to make the least noise, and to fall back, a man at 
a time, to the breastworks of the main line. It hap- 
pened that my lot was to be the last man to leave the 
pit, but I made good time back to the works. We 
were soon under way, and after about an hour's tramp 
began to discern in the darkness what looked to be a 
row of posts, but which proved to be a skirmish line. 
We passed this and another line, and formed one our- 
selves. Then, after these two lines had passed through 
our line, we marched without a halt until noon, when 



420 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [May, 

we overtook the brigade. I think it was the next day 
that we reached the James river. 

We lay there one day, while the engineers were 
building the pontoon bridge, which we crossed just at 
dark. Some time in the night Thomas Spencer and 
myself fell out of the ranks, and crawling into the 
bushes went oft' to sleep. We were up and off' at day- 
light, and travelled hard all day. About three in the 
afternoon we came to a divide in the road : Which 
should we take, the one to the left, or straight in front? 
Neither one of us, of course, knew. Pretty soon we 
saw two horsemen, who looked to be a quartermaster 
and an orderly, coming down the straight road. " Qiiar- 
termaster," we said, "which way is our brigade?" 
"Up that left-hand road about a mile," was the ready 
answer. We thanked him, saluted, and as he returned 
the salute the visor of his cap fell, disclosing the three 
stars of a lieutenant-general ! In what other army than 
our own would it have done for a poor private and a 
musician to have inquired the way of the Commander- 
in-chief ? The general and his orderly rode off", leaving 
us thunderstruck at our temerity : but this only lasted a 
short time, and we went in search of the brigade, finding 
them about four o'clock. For some days I had been 
thinkincr that I had seen enough of soldiering in the 
ranks, and as musicians were not compelled to shoulder 
a musket, I concluded not to take any more in mine. 



SAVED BY A DETOUR. 
By Lieut. S. H. Perry. 

On the 30th of May, 1864, I was in command of Com- 
pany G, as first lieutenant. Report came that the Forty- 



1864.] FROM THE NORTH ANNA TO PETERSBURG. 42 1 

eighth Pennsylvania, who were on the skirmish line in 
our front, had run against a snag — having lost their 
major and two other officers, and quite a number of 
men, on this particuiar part of the line, which was up a 
ravine ; and orders were sent for the Ninth New Hamp- 
shire to relieve both the regiment and skirmishers. I 
was detailed to command the skirmish line, and on 
making inquiries of the officer in command, I learned 
that all the officers had been hit in crossing a path, 
and in almost the same spot. Making a detour, I took 
my men across, some four or five rods back from that 
spot, and although we were shot at, the bullets flew 
wide of the mark. Hardly had I got my men posted 
when I heard General Griffin order, " Forward,- Ninth 
New Hampshire skirmishers!" and then "Forward, 
Ninth New Hampshire ! " Forward we went with a 
right good will, pushing the Johnnies back, and carry- 
ing the much desired position, contrary to the expecta- 
tions of some of the stafT officers, who had been sent to 
countermand the order for an advance, and who at that 
time claimed that the whole move was well carried out. 



THE ENGAGEMENT AT TOLOPOTOMOY CREEK. 
By Sergt. George L. Wakefield. 

Just previous to the engagement at Tolopotomoy, Gen- 
eral Potter had given Captain Hough, who had been 
the commanding officer of the regiment since Captain 
Stone's death, orders to take us to the rear, give us a 
rest of three days, to draw all the rations we could get, 
and to fill up for a general good time. We had been 
there in the rear just about long enough to draw our 
rations and get them partly cooked, when an orderly 



422 NINTH NE IV HA MPS HIRE. [ M ay, 

came galloping up with a message that we were 
ordered back to the front. We went there on the 
double-quick most of the way, and passing over the 
Forty-eighth Pennsylvania, plunged through a piece 
of swamp and up a sharp hill where the rebels were 
intrenched. The rebels were driven away from the 
brow of the hill in utter confusion, and then we lay 
down on the outer side of their breastworks. In a few 
minutes General Potter himself was seen coming up 
the hill afoot. Said he, as soon as he reached us, 
"Thank God, you are not captured ! " and then added, 
a moment afterwards, " If you had been, I would have 
followed you to Richmond but what I would have re- 
taken you ! " 

It transpired afterwards that other brigades had 
already charged this same position, but had been 
repulsed and were unable to carry it. Finally, Gen- 
eral Potter, in despair, rode up to General Griffin and 
said, "For God's sake. Griffin, have n't you got some- 
thing that can take that position?" "Yes," replied 
General Griffin without an instant's hesitation, "I've 
got a little regiment right out here that can do it." 
And he sent for the Ninth New Hampshire, and they 
did do it, though they lost one killed and sixteen 
wounded just in that little charge. 

In this battle the rebels used explosive balls. One of 
them struck Lyman Sargent of Company G in the leg, 
and exploding, tore the calf of the leg all to pieces. In 
fact, the regiment had never before gone through any 
place where there was as much horror surrounding it, 
on account of the explosive balls and the nature of the 
ground and the thickness of the brush, and it has always 
been regarded as the most brilliant achievement of the 



1864.] FROM THE NORTH ANNA TO PETERSBURG. 423 

regiment during its service. It was generally under- 
stood in the army that the regiment assigned the posi- 
tion of supporting a battery actively engaged was occu- 
pying a post of special favor and honor, and the appoint- 
ment of the Ninth New Hampshire to the support of a 
battery on the days following the engagement at Tolo- 
potomoy creek, w^as therefore an official recognition of 
its reliabilitv and achievements. 



TOLOPOTOMOY FROM ANOTHER POINT OF VIEW. 
By Sergt. Newell T. Dntton. 

We were taking our turn as guard for the baggage 
train that day, and were somewhat surprised when we 
were ordered to proceed at once to the front ; but we 
were there to obey orders, so we went up there on the 
double-quick until we came to a piece of woods, where 
we halted for a few minutes. Just down in front the 
Forty-eighth Pennsylvania was doing picket duty, and 
in one way and another there was considerable fighting 
going on, and every few minutes somebody that had 
been wounded would be brought out. Then General 
Grifliin rode up to Captain Hough and said, " Captain 
Hough, take your regiment and advance upon the 
enemy. You wall go down the woods until you come 
to a run, which you will cross; then you will come 
to a steep bank, and on the top of that bank, to the 
right, are the enemy : you are to drive them from their 
position ! " 

We all knew what that meant : it was a feeler ; but 
we went down the woods, and formed in line across the 
roots and branches when we got to the bottom of the 



424 NINTH NEW IIAMPSHIKE. [June, 

Steep bank. We had to pull ourselves up by the bushes 
about two thirds of the way, and then we had to stop 
for a minute to get our breath and straighten the line. 
Then, with one tremendous yell we went for the enemy, 
drove them back from their strong picket line, and into 
the second line of their intrenchments. The rest of the 
brigade was then brought up, the line was established, 
fortifications were strengthened and enlarged, and the 
position was safely ours. 

We lay there two or three days, and then were 
thrown out — perhaps a mile back — into a locality that 
was a trifle more dangerous, for before we had been 
there two hours the rebels were coming in on our left. 
The night was spent in putting up a line of works 
between our troops and the rebels ; and we were willing 
to work hard too, for we had been living on short rations 
and were anxious to secure communication for the army 
with the supplies. In the morning the Ninth New 
Hampshire was ordered to remain in reserve, to hold 
the position, while the rest of the division charged the 
enemy. It had been thought that they occupied a posi- 
tion that controlled the lines of the enemy in a manner 
to prevent their escaping. The next morning, however, 
it was discovered that they had managed to get away 
during the night, but they left ground behind them that 
was covered with dead men and horses. It was said 
that they lost every horse in the battery, and I myself 
saw trees that would measure over a foot through that 
were shot off by the Minies of the Sixth New Hamp- 
shire. 

From there we went to Cold Harbor, where we did 
not do any fighting, though occupying a position in the 
line. We did a good deal of moving around while we 



1864.] FROM THE NORTH ANNA TO PETERSBURG. 425. 

were there, but lost no men. After a week of this kind 
of work we were ordered to be ready to move at short 
notice, and having left Cold Harbor behind us on the 
evening of the 12th of June, we marched all that night 
and all the next day. We were given a little sleep the 
next night, but were kept on the move all of the follow- 
ing day and until late at night. 



THE NINTH AT BETHESDA CHURCH. 
By Sergt. George L. Wakefield. 

The first that we knew of the rebels beingr on us at 
Bethesda church was when our rear picket was driven 
in, and their advice to us was to " Hurry up and get 
out of here ! " but our division proceeded to form several 
lines of battle, one behind the other. Just in the rear of 
the first line were several pieces of artillery, but after 
the first line had advanced the second moved up and 
fired off two or three volleys. The rebels broke then, 
and started to run across the plowed field, making the 
best time they, knew in order to reach the breastworks ; 
but to capture those breastworks meant just as much to 
us as it did to them, and although they had the advan- 
tage of a start, we got there first. Then they fell back 
across the low piece of ground to the edge of the pine 
woods, where they had another line of breastworks built 
out of pine logs. Before they had time to get any dirt 
on the outside of those logs our artillery opened fire, 
and knocked the logs right over on top of the rebels. 
Then we sat down very close to their lines, and com- 
menced to throw up earthworks with our bayonets and 
such tools as we happened to have, keeping up a pretty 
steadv skirmish fire in the mean time till after dark^ 



426 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [June, 

The next morning, after our skirmishers had discovered 
that the enemy had retreated during the night, we went 
over to look around, and it was a pretty hard looking 
sight. 



CAPTURING A REBEL COURIER. 
By Ser^t. William A. McGa7'rett. 

On the 2d of June, 1864, while Burnside and Warren 
vv^ere maneuvering for position at Cold Harbor, the 
enemy left his works and attacked us with great severity, 
but was repulsed with heavy loss. I was detailed as a 
skirmisher, and at once moved forward with the line 
across an open field, through an awful lire of bullets 
and shells, and halted at a brook that was lined on 
either side by bushes and small trees. Here we stopped 
to breathe, and while waiting there a horseman came 
between the rebel lines and ours on a full gallop, and 
then stopped a moment, as if in doubt whether to go 
any farther. The rebels were yelling for him to come 
in, but his stop was fatal for him. I told the boys to 
shoot him if he tried to get away, and I sprang forward, 
behind the trees and bushes, and captured him within 
ninety feet of his own lines. Amid a storm of bullets I 
hurried him back to our regiment, which was back of 
an old line of breastworks. I received the cheers of my 
company, and delivered my prisoner to Captain Hough, 
who was then in command of the regiment. I then 
returned to m}' comrades on the skirmish line through 
another spattering fire from the rebs. This was the 
best dressed and best mounted rebel I had ever seen up 
to that time. He carried despatches from Lieut. Gen. 
A. P. Hill to Gen. R. S. Ewell. The whole outfit was 




Sebgt. William A. McGarrett, Co. A. 



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safely landed at General Burnside's head-quarters, and 
he immediately ordered an advance. The enemy were 
driven from their position with terrible loss. I went 
over the ground the next day with Adjutant Brown, and 
found the woods full of dead and wounded Confederates, 
it being especially horrible in a road where the enemy 
had taken shelter, which was raked by our batteries. 
Captain Little shook my hand warmly, and said, " Billy, 
you deserve straps for this, and I will do what I can to 
get them for you ! " and I honestly believe that if Colonel 
Titus had been with the regiment then I would have 
got them. 



McGARRETT'S RECEIPT FOR HIS PRISONER. 

Head-Quarters qth Regt. N. H. Vols., 
In the Field, June 2d, 1864. 
This is to certify that Sergeant William A. McGarrett of Company 
A of this Regiment Captured a Rebel this evening. Said Rebel was 
supposed to be a Courier for the Rebel General A. P. Hill, and at the 
time was approaching our skirmish line, mistaking it for the Rebels.'' 
Said prisoner was mounted at the time of Capture. 

A. J. Hough, 
Captain CojjCd'g <^th N. H. Vols. 



THE CAMP ON THE JAMES RIVER. 
By Sergt. Neaiell T. Diitton. 

For some time before we left Cold Harbor we had 
been kept on rather short rations, and while we were 
on the march the hard-tack and everything else gave 
out. When the boys found it out they began to yell, 
"Hard-tack! hard-tack! give us some hard-tack!" 
with all their might, and they kept it a-going for quite 



428 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [June^ 

a while too; but no hard-tack was forthcoming, in spite 
of their plaintive appeals. The road was so full of troops 
that we had to keep halting every now and then, and it 
seemed almost as if we were n't making any headway at 
all, so it is n't any wonder that the boys got impatient. 
But General Griffin kept cheering us up, telling us that 
when we got to camp everything would be all right. 
We got into camp that night at ten o'clock, but the 
promise of something to eat was not fulfilled until the 
next morning, except with the few who were lucky 
enough to tind something for themselves. Sergeant 
Burnham was blessed with a special talent in the forag- 
ing line, and could be depended on to have something 
good, even under the most unfavorable circumstances, 
and was always glad to share with his comrades too,, 
for w^hat he gathered with one hand he was just as- 
ready to divide with the other. So, when my hunger 
began to get the upper hands of me, I went in search 
of Burnham, and sure enough, with his usual good luck,, 
he had laid hold of a fine young pig just right to roast. 
He had already gone halves with another comrade, but 
it did n't take long to build a fire to roast that other half, 
and no roast turkey with all its fixings will ever taste 
any better to me than did that piece of pig with only 
salt for seasoning. 

We lay in camp all day and until the next night, and 
about dusk were ordered to be ready to march at once. 
We had already received orders to draw special rations 
that night, and remain where we were, but after we 
were in line and had started they opened the boxes of 
hard-tack, and we took them as we went. We marched 
all that night, and at six o'clock the next morning 
bivouacked for breakfast. Only three men were there 



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to Stack their arms for the bearers to set their colors 
against. That was on the morning of the i6th of June, 
and the order had been, "fifty-five minutes on the road 
and five minutes for rest," all through the night. We 
were allowed an hour for breakfast that morning, and 
before the hour was up, nearly the whole regiment had 
come up, and had cooked their coffee, so that we were 
all ready to start off with the brigade. We marched 
until two o'clock in the afternoon, without halting for 
dinner, and were then ordered to rest, cook coffee, and 
be ready to support the Second corps in a charge on 
the defences of Petersburg at four o'clock. This was a 
march of thirty miles, and one of the toughest the regi- 
ment ever experienced. 



TOLD IN HOME LETTERS. 
By Sergt. yames IV. Lathe. 

June 5. — We are getting down near the Chickahominy, 
where I suppose supplies will be plenty in a few days. 
Send me a dollar or two at a time, for I have no money, 
and a little more to eat won't hurt me. On the 2d we 
left our rifle-pits and moved along the line, leaving the 
field to the rebs as usual. We had moved about a mile 
and a half, and nearly all the Ninth corps had stacked 
arms in a field except a strong rear-guard. We had 
not been there lonfj when a dreadful thunder-shower 
came up, drenching us through and through. Before 
the shower was over we heard rapid musketry in our 
rear, and soon the mass of soldiers was unwound into 
two lines of battle. The Third division had nearly all 
the fighting that night. It was apparent that the enemy 



43 O NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [June, 

was moving east, or extending their line east, and our 
division moved forward to the east and right, and dur- 
ing the night built breastworks, and the Seventh Maine 
battery took position at the right of our regiment. 

Just after daylight the First brigade went over the 
breastworks, and soon found the rebs. Our column 
advanced to within fifteen rods, and then they halted 
and fought all day. Some of them were new regiments^ 
and stood in the open field and fired at the rebs behind 
breastworks and in the woods, bringing up logs and 
rails as they could, to try to cover themselves ; but many 
a poor soldier fell. Duncan Campbell was hit in the 
leg below the knee, shattering the bone. He said, 
"Go on, boys, and give it to them; I'm wounded!'^ 
and never complained a word. He will lose his leg, but 
such a man will not lose his life. 

Our regiment was moved up before night, and during 
the night heavy breastworks were built all along the 
line. In the morning the rebs had gone. The battery 
that we were supporting had got a good range of the 
rifle-pits, and did great execution, nearly annihilating a 
battery and all its horses, piling the men up also. The 
trees where the rebs were concealed were filled with 
bullets, and many cut down by cannon shot. The rebs 
have not captured our wagons, as they usually have in 
other campaigns, but have been baffled everywhere. 
Probably that move was to capture our immense wagon 
train, but A. P. Hill got badly whipped by the Ninth 
corps, and made out as soon as possible. We have 
moved about two miles from the battle-field of the 3d, 
towards the Chickahominy, and connected with the 
Eighteenth corps. The battle of the 3d was the first 
battle-field that has been left in Union hands in this 



1864.] FROM THE NORTH ANNA TO PETERSBURG. 43 1 

campaign. The rebs show a strong front here as usual,, 
but we have an awful army, and it seems invincible. It 
is strange how our men hold out so well, but they don't 
seem to get sick on what would kill every one of them 
at home. The mails are not certain, but .1 think they 
will be better now, coming by White House landing. 

June 6. — The rebels charge some point of our line 
nearly every night. They made a dreadful assault on 
the Eighteenth corps last night. I never heard so ter- 
rific a charge before — it could only be beat by the great 
noise we read about at the last day. We have got 
within about eight miles of Richmond, and I suppose it 
will be a long time before we gain that eight miles. But 
the rebs do n't seem to feel satisfied at our coming so 
near, and there will be desperate fighting until we get 
well fortified, which is going rapidly on, and our lines 
come very near together now. Spades have been 
trumps all the way, but now every rod of it must be 
dug through, until our big guns can vomit their over- 
loaded stomachs into the doomed city. Everything has 
been taken as we passed along, and houses ransacked, 
destroying things that could do them no good, even to 
the women's scanty clothing and the bedding and furni- 
ture, while the women looked on in tears. 

Every bit of corn, every hen and pig and cow has 
been killed and eaten, ever}^ mule has been taken along, 
and in the wake of our army everything has been deso- 
lated. We have dug up their corn-fields building breast- 
works, also their wheat-fields. The wheat was well 
headed out, and our huge droves of beeves have trodden 
it all down ; so you see they have paid for their seces- 
sion. Their slaves have all left them ; those left at 



432 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [June, 

home — men, women, and children — have followed us. 
They are nearly or quite ruined — but still they fight as 
only demons can, and but tor our great numbers they 
would drive us trom their soil. We have had to go into 
many places -where it seemed that no man could look 
and live. It is strange how men can become so accus- 
tomed to death and danger that they will acknowledge 
neither, and walk among whizzing bullets as though 
they were bees. 

June 7. — We are again on the flank, the same as the 
day before our battle with A. P. Hill. We straightened 
around with his line last night before dark, and the way 
the old locjs and sticks formed into line of battle or 
breastworks could only be beaten by magic or light- 
ning ; but we have not had a chance to fight behind 
them. When the shells come over we get up close, 
and we can keep out of the way of the bullets, which 
always are coming more or less. Men are sent for- 
ward of the pits from five to thirty rods, according to 
circumstances, enough to cover the regiments at a dis- 
tance of five or six steps apart. They are to keep 
behind trees, or whatever they can cover themselves 
with, or dig a small pit and get into it. The rebs do 
the same thing, and the two lines of videttes or skir- 
mishers keep firing at each other at every chance, and 
the bullets come over to see us quite often. When an 
advance is made the skirmishers have to run in, after 
holding their ground as long as possible. Many are 
taken prisoners, on both sides, in tiiis way. 

The main line remains in place until the en&my comes 
after the pickets or skirmishers, and when they get 
within good distance then comes the friendly exchange 



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of shot for shot. At night, while behind the breast- 
works, every man has his harness on ; and half stand 
in readiness at a time, while the others lie down in 
their places like big dogs, wet or dry, with rifle at 
hand, and try to sleep ; and there is not much trouble 
in getting to sleep as sound as death itself. How do 
you suppose our clothes look, after lying in rifle-pits, 
digging, or crawling on our belly, or lying flat on the 
plowed ground, during thunder-showers and sunshine? 
Not very clean — no chance to wash a garment since 
Bristow Station on the ist of May. L-i-c-e is no name 
for the gray-backed vermin that flourish on our wasting 
bodies ; might as well call them man-eaters. Though 
disgusted with anything that looks like war, and weary 
and worn from long watching and exposure, I am still 
the same Jim. 

June 9. — We are about three miles from Mechanics- 
ville, and eight from Richmond, and about fifteen from 
White House landing on the Chickahominy. That is 
about all I can find out about our position, and as there 
are no towns in slave states, it is hard to give the 
locality. We must be on the north or east side of the 
river, and I suppose it is in Hanover county, but do n't 
know. Freeman [Lathe] is cooking, and is worth 
three common men for that place. It don't matter 
how many bullets are flying, he always comes to us 
with his kettles of hot coffee and fresh boiled beef once 
a day. But the coffee comes three times, and I don't 
see how we could live without it. It is a dangerous job 
to be crawling about carrying rations, for the bullets go 
everywhere except behind our breastworks, and some- 
times they come full close enough there. The rebs 

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434 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [June, 

generally try about twice every night to break our 
lines. That brings every man to his place, and you 
ought to see some of the volleys that are poured after 
them. 



LETTERS TO MAJOR CHANDLER. 

{Adjt. ll'ilUain I. Br own. ^ 

In the Field. 

June 2. — On the 31st [May] the regiment made an 
advance and drove the enemy from a strong position and 
won much credit. Loss : killed, one ; wounded, seven- 
teen. On the 25th had five wounded skirmishing on the 
North Anna. Lieutenants Sampson, Perry, and Emery 
have returned. Captain Hough is in command, and 
does splendidly. Buswell is still present, and Lieuten- 
ant Case is acting field officer. We are a small band 
now, but strong and effective. Received the highest 
compliments of Colonel Griffin for our conduct on the 
31st. Advanced with no support, right, left, or rear. 
Lieutenant-Colonel Pearson [Sixth New Hampshire] 
killed on the 26th or 27th. Heavy loss to the regiment 
and brigade. How bad is Colonel Babbitt's wound? 
Captain Little is on the way here now. 

Cold Harbor, Va. 

June II. — ^Yours of the ist instant came yesterday. 
There has been no fighting along the lines for several 
(Jays — our works are being strengthened — we now lie 
near the right of the whole line, behind rifle-pits. Cap- 
tains Hough, Cooper, and I live in what is known as 
Fort Grant. Captain Hough still commands, by order 
of Colonel Griffin. Captain Whitfield is expected back 




Adjutant William I. Brown. 



1S64.] FROM THE NORTH ANNA TO PETERSBURG. 435 

— his horse had his Kg shot off the other day. Bad 
luck the captain has with horses ! Rumor says that 
our corps is going to South CaroHna — our transporta- 
tion has gone to White House. The Eighteenth corps, 
General Baldi Smith, has joined us. The Second, 
Fourth, Fifth, Tenth, and Thirteenth New Hamp- 
shire are here, and think it rather a rough campaign. 
Grant has already begun to dig under and blow up 
the rebel forts. One went up on the left the other 
day — am expecting every moment to hear the explo- 
sion of another near by, which is nearly ready. It is 
believed that General Ewell, with 1,500 prisoners, has 
been captured. Went. Butler still cooks for us. 
Nothing has been said or done about detailed waiters 
since the stir at Bristow, and I do n't think there will 
be again at present. There are a great quantity of 
waiters and cooks now. I think I should do nothing 
about Went. If you do, however, I shall, of course, be 
willing to share the expense. He is not now reported 
as your waiter. Captain Hough wants to know if you 
get any " robin on toast" in Concord. Captain Blais- 
dell has returned. 



WHAT WAS IN FRONT AT TOLOPOTOMOY. 
By Capt. Edward C. Babb. 

An order came to us in the morning from General 
Griffin, to report to him at once where he was. We 
found him on a level piece of ground, directly in front 
of a very deep ravine which was thickly covered with 
timber from the level ground down as far as we could 
see. General Griffin came along to Captain Hough and 
gave him his orders, which were to move on through 



436 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [June, 

this ravine and find out what there was in front of us. 
The position was regarded as so dangerous a one that 
General Griffin shook hands with Captain Hough and 
said " Good-bye, Captain ! " and as I was standing close 
by the captain, he shook hands with me too. 

The regiment immediately moved down one side of 
the ravine, and then up a little way on the opposite 
side. From there we could see quite a commotion at 
the top of the hill, where there seemed to be a sort of 
a clearing. The captain gave the order to fire, but 
before it could be executed there came a scattering fire 
from the rebs on the hill, and also a few hand grenades. 
Hough waited no longer. "Up, boys, and at them!" 
he shouted, and at the word we jumped up the hill and 
actually drove out what would make more than a bri- 
gade of men, and took possession of the rifle-pits, which 
were built in semi-circular form. One of the rebel offi- 
cers tried to rally his men, and got them together 
enough to make a safe retreat across the field. Captain 
Hough immediately sent word back that we had cap- 
tured the line, and asked that troops might be sent at 
once to help hold it. The brigade came up in a few 
minutes, and General Griffin came over and thanked 
Captain Hough for what he had done, and compli- 
mented him on the braverv of his men. 



SOME STRAY SHOTS. 



Captain Robinson. — While we were at North Anna 
I had in my company a Portuguese sailor by the name 
of Seino Jacques. He had been taught to speak a 
little English, and one day, sitting upon the breast- 



1864-] FROM THE NORTH ANNA TO PETERSBURG. 437 

works that we had thrown up, he turned around to his 
haversack, which contained four or five crackers where 
he was supposed to have three days rations, looked 
sadly at it for a moment, and said, " Plentee march 
— plentee fight — plentee reb — no plentee hard-tack ! " 
Volumes couldn't have expressed the situation of 
affairs more completely. 

There was another fellow in the company, named 
Leon Saladal, who never learned to speak a word of 
English while he was with us. Saladal spoke Spanish, 
and the Portuguese sailor spoke Spanish and French in 
his way, but only a little English, while Joe Provencher 
spoke French and English. So, when Saladal wanted 
to communicate with me, he spoke to the Portuguese in 
Spanish, the Portuguese gave it to Joe in French, and 
Joe gave it to me in English ; and then it went back 
by the same circuitous route to Saladal. He had been 
a cook in a Spanish galley, and the cold weather was 
quite hard on him, but he was very faithful to his duties, 
and learned to go through the manual by watching the 
others. At Spottsylvania he got separated from us, and 
afterwards brought a note from the officer of another 
regiment, saying that he had been with them that day 
and had behaved well. I told some one to look at his 
gun and see what condition it was in. It was the first 
action he had been in, and his gun was full of charges. 
He had put the bullet at the bottom and rammed the 
powder on top of it, and had kept on loading till he got 
the gun full. If he had not done much in the way of 
execution, he had certainly shown his good intentions. 

Captain Copp. — One day, when we had been detailed 
on the skirmish line, my company was stationed in a 



438 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [June, 

place where the woods were pretty thick with under- 
brush, and you could n't see a great ways ahead. But 
in spite of this protection there came a time when the 
bullets were skipping in pretty close to us, so the boys 
began to scoop out pits for themselves. One of the men, 
who was digging a hole as fast as he could with his 
bayonet, thought he heard a noise on the other side of 
the tree just in his front, and peeping cautiously around 
he saw a rebel on the other side diligently at work dig- 
ging with his bayonet. The rebel looked up at the 
same time, but it was rather close quarters for both of 
them, so each grabbing his musket backed out of sight 
of the other, and neither one spoke a word. 

The day that the regiment acted as rear-guard and 
guard for the trains, the men got a chance to do a little 
cooking, though we did n't have such a great sight to 
cook at that particular time. The boys had built a big 
fire and were sitting around it, and I remember passing 
one group where a man was roasting a bit of pork. He 
was holding it up to the fire, twirling it round on a stick, 
and saying, " Fatting to kill, boys; fatting to kill." It 
was n't half an hour before an orderly came down where 
we were, and we were ordered to the front on the double- 
quick. When we got there we all felt as if we were 
going into a pretty tough place, and the fellow that was 
roasting the pork was one of the first to fall. 



THE WAGON TRAIN AT BETHESDA CHURCH. 
By Capt. Edward C. Babb. 

We had come down the hill, and were trying to get 
across the road, but there was a wagon train at least a 



1S64.] FROM THE NORTH ANNA TO PETERSBURG. 439 

half mile long in possession of the road, and the teams 
kept coming on the jump and just as close together as 
possible. There was a very cool and collected looking 
man on horseback waiting by the side of the road, and 
by and by Captain Hough, who was getting impatient 
at the long delay, said to him that he must get his com- 
mand across there somehow, and that he didn't propose 
to wait much longer to do it either. " Now look here," 
said the man on horseback, "don't you be in such a 
hurry ; I know where you're going better than you do ! " 
Well, we had to wait till that wagon train got past, and 
then it transpired that the man on horseback was Quar- 
termaster Ingalls. After this we pushed on very hur- 
riedly, and soon passed through a line of works that 
was held by Sykes's regulars, who were equipped with 
repeating rifles. We had gone on but a short distance 
when the enemy opened fire on the line we had just left, 
and though we were perhaps sixty rods away we got 
enough of their shot and shells to make our position 
rather a risky one. The regulars soon got in their fire, 
however, and did great execution, but we were glad to 
get out of range. 



A SHOT THROUGH THE LUNG, AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 

By George J. Allen. 

When the regiment was engaged near Bethesda church 
I was detailed to go on the skirmish line, and had the 
right of the line. Charles W. Symonds was next to 
me, and then Byron D. Leighton, we three being Corn- 
pan}' I men. All the rest of the skirmishers, so far as 
I could see, were protected by bushes, but I was five 
paces away from where the bushes ended. I stayed 



440 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [June, 

there, however, until I was ordered to go out about 
two rods, to where there was a small tree. This was 
before the rebs came in sight, but when they came up 
they caught sight of me at once and began firing. 
There was quite a party of them in a small house just 
in front of me, and another body oft' to the right, and 
between the two of them the balls came thick and fast, 
and about sundown I was wounded. My pension cer- 
tificate says: "Wounds of throat and lung, resulting 
in total disability, such as to render incapacity to per- 
form manual labor, equivalent to the loss of a hand or 
foot." 

The ball struck me about an inch above the heart, 
went in between two ribs, passed through the lung, and 
came out at the back. The shock was so great that 
it whirled me half-way around, and I called out to 
Symonds that I was hurt, and started to go back, but 
could not w^alk. Symonds and Leighton came out 
where I was, and carried me back to the rifle-pits 
where the regiment was. They laid me down, and 
Symonds turned to Leighton and said, "Come on, V>y , 
let 's go back there and give them h — 1 for this I " I was 
carried to the rear on a stretcher, and placed on a pile 
of straw in a log house, and lay there, suffering terribly, 
till long after dark. Eleazer Colburn, who was one of 
the pioneers, chanced to come to the door, and hearing 
some one groaning, asked who it was. I told him what 
the matter was, and he said he would go for a doctor. 
It was n't long before he came back with some men, a 
stretcher, and a torch, and they took me to the field 
hospital, where I stayed till the next morning. 

That forenoon I was put in an ambulance and carried 
to what was called the division hospital, and lay in an 



1864.] FROM THE NORTH AA^NA TO PETERSBURG. 44 1 

open field, with a lot of others, all day in the burning 
sun. It was some time the next day that a surgeon or 
nurse put something over my wound, but did not cleanse 
it at all. Late that afternoon we were packed and 
wedged into ambulances, till there was n't room to turn 
the least bit, and started for White House landing. It 
seemed as if we went 'cross-lots all night, for first a 
wheel would sink in to the hub, then it would strike a 
log and go up ; only to repeat the operation over and 
over again, until I thought we should all be killed sure. 
We arrived at the landing in the afternoon, but the boat 
that was being loaded was then so full that the captain 
refused to take on another man. So the ambulances 
were driven into a camp near by, and we laid in them 
that night. 

In the morning a man from the Christian commission 
brought me some soup, and this was the first thing I had 
had to eat since I was wounded, four days before. A 
doctor from the same society then washed and dressed 
my wound, and in the afternoon we were put on board 
a boat for transportation to Washington. The next few 
months were full of pain and suffering for me, but with 
good care I managed to pull through, though my 
wound was not fully healed before the 14th of Decem- 
ber of that year. That same day I was offered a 
discharge from the service, but this I refused, pre- 
ferring to serve until the war was ended. I was 
detailed as a nurse, and did duty till the following 
April, when I began to spit blood and had to go to 
the hospital, spending some months at the Lincoln 
hospital, at Washington, and the Manchester hos- 
pital, in New Hampshire. 

July 10, 1865, I was finally discharged from the 



442 NINTH NE W HA MPS HIKE. [ J un e, 

service at Concord, and for nearly two years was ill 
more or less of the time, coughing and raising blood 
freely. One day in March, 1867, nearly' three years 
after I was wounded, I was taken with a severe cough- 
ing spell, and raised a piece of bone half an inch long, 
which I liave now. The doctor said it was a piece of 
rib, and had been carried into the lung, which ex- 
plained the coughing and bleeding from which I had 
so long suffered. I served with the regiment in every 
engagement up to the time I was wounded. 



CHAPTER XIII. 

From the Investure of Petersburg to the Ex- 
plosion OF THE Mine. 

The city of Petersburg, which lies about twenty-two 
miles to the south of Richmond, was the railroad centre 
of all the lines save one that afforded communication 
between the Confederate capital and its bases of sup- 
plies in the south and south-west. Could this position 
be taken and securely defended, the ultimate downfall of 
Richmond and of the Rebellion was assured ; and it was 
for the accomplishment of this object that the forces of 
the Army of the Potomac were now investing the city. 
Simultaneously with the movement of Meade's army 
against the southern approaches to the citadel, Gen- 
eral Grant had arranged a series of attacks from the 
north and south-west, together with the bombardment 
of Fort Clinton, which defended the approach up the 
Appomattox, by the forces under Butler, then at Ber- 
muda Hundreds. Through a multiplicity of fatalities 
the combination had failed, and the decided advantage 
gained in a second assault, — this time on the north- 
eastern defences, by the Eighteenth corps under Smith 
— on the 15th of June, had not been followed up, and 
with this fatal hesitation the golden opportunity passed. 

Up to the time of this latter movement General Lee 
had not fully comprehended the purpose of the Union 
commander-in-chief; but that once divined, he was 
prompt to act. By the afternoon of the i6th the 



444 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [June, 

greater part of the Army of the Potomac was on the 
field ; but Lee was there, too, with his van of iron- 
sided veterans, and Smith began to realize that his 
twelve hours delay had indefinitely postponed the fall 
of the walls that had seemed so imminent only the 
night before. The original plan of attack, as mapped 
out b}' General Meade, contemplated an advance as 
early as four o'clock in the afternoon of the i6th, but 
it was fully two hours later when the assaulting column 
— consisting of Barlow's division of Hancock's corps, 
supported by the Second brigade of the Second divi- 
sion of the Ninth corps — moved on the enemy's works. 
Advancing under a heavy skirmish fire, the brigade suc- 
ceeded in securing a few of the first line of rifle-pits 
before night came on, and any further attempt to carry 
the place by assault was put off" until the early morning 
of the 17th. 

It was decided that the Second division of the Ninth 
corps, supported by the First, should lead in the assault, 
and the post of honor as well as danger was given to 
the Second brigade, whose commander, General GriflSn, 
was also charged with the execution of the attack. The 
plan proposed was a bold one, but General Burnside 
thouo-ht the results which it promised well worth the 
venture. The enemy had established his head-quarters 
on the Shand estate, in a house which, fronting east, 
was situated near the extremity of a point of land formed 
by two brooks coursing through deep and narrow ravines 
and converging about twenty rods to the nortli of the 
house. Behind the house, in an orchard of peach trees, 
was a battery of four guns : to the south, and on slightly 
higher ground, was a redan, with two guns planted 
where an enfilading fire could be poured through the 



i864.] THE INVESTURE OF PETERSBURG. 445 

ravine which ran along the eastern front, the inner or 
western bank of the ravine being defended by a strong 
line of breastworks. An unobserved approach through 
the eastern ravine, a sudden dash up its steep side, a 
sweeping charge over the breastworks, and the enemy's 
line will be broken, and he will be compelled to abandon 
the ground which he has clung to so tenaciously. 

It is past midnight when the attacking column slowly 
and stealthily winds its way along the bed of the ravme. 
It is composed of Griffin's and Curtin's brigades of the 
Second division,-the former with the Seventeenth Ver- 
mont, the Eleventh New Hampshire, and the Thirty- 
second Maine in the front line, supported by the Sixth 
and Ninth New Hampshire, the Thirty-first Maine, and 
Second Maryland ; the latter with the Forty-fifth and 
Fortv-eighth Pennsylvania and Thirty-sixth Massachu- 
setts" in front, and the Seventh Rhode Island, Second 
New York rifles, and Fifty-eighth Massachusetts m the 
rear. Everything has been carefully arranged and 
explained beforehand, each man knows what is 
expected of him, that the fate of the whole aftair 
hangs on a strict obedience to orders, and not a sound 
breaks the stillness of the night as they take their places 
and in silence await the signal to advance. 

It is a glorious night. Overhead, sailing serenely 
through the blue expanse of the heavens, is a full 
moon that floods the earth with her soft but radiant 
light; before and behind the little band ot sflent 
watchers, armed hosts are sleeping, and the minutes 
seem Hke hours as they keep their lonely vigil. At 
quarter-past three the first faint streaks of light begin 
to appear in the east, and the time for action has come. 
"Ready!" is the word that passes from man to man, 



446 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [June, 

and then, like a huge wave gathering its strength for a 
mighty, onsetting, irresistible sweep along the shore, 
the men spring to their feet, and noiselessly, swiftly, 
powerfully, hurl themselves upon the sleeping foe. 
Griffin's brigade bears to the right, Curtin's to the left, 
and covering fully a mile of the enemy's Iront in their 
operations, sweep everything before their victorious 
advance. There are but a few stray shots from the 
pickets, the big guns of the battery and redan flash 
forth a last defiance, there is a volley of musketry 
from the startled soldiers, as wildly aimed as it proves 
ineffectual, — and it is all over, and to the victors belong 
the spoils. Four guns, a quantity of small arms and 
ammunition, and four stands of colors change owners, 
the prisoners number six hundred and fifty, and the 
gallant Ninth corps has added yet another leaf to its 
laurels. 

Every foot of ground that could be covered by the at- 
tacking column had been carried, and so quickly that 
the support had not yet come up ; when it did arrive the 
time for a further advance had gone by, and all that 
General Potter could do was to secure the safety of the 
new position. Shortly after noon Hartranft's and Christ's 
brigades of the Third division of the Ninth corps were 
ordered in ; the former, while making a most gallant 
advance under a fire so keen that the men went down in 
swaths, being compelled to withdraw with only a rem- 
nant of his brave troops, and the latter — more fortunate, 
though losing almost as heavily — securing a lodgment 
and holding his ground in spite of all efforts the enemy 
could bring to bear. Later in the afternoon, the First 
division attacking, a number of rifle-pits were carried, 
and another hundred of prisoners and a stand of colors 



1864.] THE INVESTURE OF PETERSBURG. 447 

were added to the trophies of the day. But at what 
fearful cost ! The burden of that day of fire and blood 
had been borne by the Ninth corps, and the dead and 
wounded were numbered by thousands, the heaviest loss 
being in Hartranft's brigade, which, going into action 
with eighteen hundred and fifty officers and men, num- 
bered only eleven hundred fit for duty at its close. 

Cheered by the victories, and undaunted by the losses, 
General Grant ordered an assault all along the line for 
the i8th. During the night of the 17th Lee withdrew 
his forces to a position nearer the city : the tremendous 
pressure was beginning to tell, and the circle was slowly 
but surely narrowing. Four in the morning was the 
hour set for the opening of the attack, and at the ap- 
pointed time the Third division of the Ninth corps was 
placed in the van, supported by Crawford's division of 
the Fifth. The enemy had fallen back to a piece of 
woods, behind which was a deep cut traversed by the 
Norfolk railroad. Slowly but steadily the Union forces 
gained the ground, and almost foot by foot the enemy 
was pushed back — back through the woods to the ravine, 
from the ravine itself; and the roadbed of the railroad 
was utilized by the victors for the breastworks with 
which they quickly fortified the position they had ac- 
quired. 

It was not until afternoon that the entire army was 
ordered in, but though everything was done that brave 
men could do, it was impossible to break the enemy's 
line at any point, and with the coming of night hostili- 
ties ceased. In the mean time, however, General Will- 
cox, following up the success of the morning, had 
advanced his front line well across the railroad, in the 
direction of the Jerusalem plank-road, and was now 



448 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [June, 

securely established within one hundred and twenty-live 
yards of the enemy's works, -a position that became the 
salient point of the Union lines in the wearisome days and 
months that followed ; and one that was dearly bought, 
for when the day had come to an end only a thousand 
men were left in the ranks. The Second and Third 
divisions w^ere thoroughly deserving of the encomium 
bestowed on them by General Burnside, who stated in his 
report that " no better fighting has been done during the 
war than was done by the divisions of Generals Potter 
and Willcox during this attack.'' 

A loss of nearly 10,000 men between the dates of June 
10 and 20, was sufficient demonstration that Petersburg 
was not to be carried by direct assault, and could only be 
reduced by the slow process of a siege. An attempt to 
turn the enemy's right flank by cutting or holding the 
Weldon railroad, which lay to the left and nearly parallel 
with the Jerusalem plank-road, resulting in a three days 
struggle, from the 21st to the 23d, was successful in mod- 
erately extending the left of the Union line, but 4,000 
more men were gone, the most of them having been taken 
prisoners, a fate which was beginning to be regarded as 
less merciful than death itself. Mortal men could endure 
no more, for the troops were completely exhausted by 
the long strain to which they had been subjected since 
leaving the Rapidan. Those seven weeks had been filled 
to the very brim with hard marching and harder fighting, 
and it is almost imposssible to comprehend the immense 
amount of energy, persistency, and endurance, that had 
been expended ; except it be considered in connection 
with the thousands of killed, wounded, and missing men. 

The siege of Petersburg once settled upon. General 
Grant decided to place the Army of the James on the 



1864.] THE INVESTURE OF PETERSBURG. 449 

north, and the Army of the Potomac on the south, side 
of the James river, so as to threaten Richmond above 
the James simultaneously with the movement against 
Petersburg from the south. The right of the line of the 
Army of the Potomac was near enough to the city to 
admit of siege operations, while the position held by the 
Ninth corps — not far from the centre of the line — was 
within four hundred feet of the enemy's most advanced 
work. Accordingly, intrenchments were extended and 
strengthened, batteries were placed in position, and the 
soldiers settled down to a period of theoretic rest — to lie 
all day in the trenches under a burning sun, where to show 
your head meant a shot from the enemy's sharpshooters ; 
rest — with the dull, thunderous booming of the cannon 
sounding in your ears by day and by night : and this not 
for one, two, or three days, but for long, weary, heart- 
sickening weeks and months. 

When the enemy, hard pressed by the sturdy veterans 
of the Ninth corps, withdrew from the vicinity of the 
Shand house, he established himself in a strong redoubt 
at the foot of "Cemetery" hill, a point projecting be- 
yond his average front and h'ing directly opposite a cor- 
responding advance of the Union lines. This redoubt 
was the keystone of the enemy's strength, and seemed to 
be the only feasible point of attack. It was a bold spirit 
who could think of carrying this fortress ; but that once 
done, and the crest of the hill that loomed up in its 
rear secured, Petersburg must fall, and that with heavy 
loss to its defenders ; and there was one man who be- 
lieved such a plan could be carried out. 

Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Pleasants, commanding the 
Forty-eighth Pennsylvania, w^as the man. Himself a 
practical miner, and skilful engineer, the idea of tunnel- 

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450 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [June, 

ling under the intervening space between the lines, and 
blowing up the fort — suggested by the talk of his men, 
who were mostly miners from the coal regions of the 
Schuylkill, as they sat around the camp-fires when their 
turn at relief came — struck him as being both practicable 
and possible. He consulted with General Potter, who in 
turn laid the matter before General Burnside, and he, 
after a careful investigation of the proposed plan of oper- 
ations, ordered Pleasants to go ahead with his mine. 
General Meade, however, on being informed of the 
project, was not disposed to believe in its practicability, 
though he finally gave it his official sanction. 

But the trust of his division and corps commanders was 
sufficient encouragement to Colonel Pleasants to induce 
him to go on with the work. Operations were begun at 
high noon on the 25th of June, and so earnestly and per- 
severingly did his men devote themselves to their task, 
that in spite of improvised tools, and discouragements 
and difficulties of all sorts and kinds, by the 23d of July 
a T-shaped gallery, — the main shaft five hundred and 
ten and eight tenths feet, and the laterals thirty-seven and 
thirty-eight feet, in length — was in readiness for tlie 
powder. Eight magazines, each containing about a 
thousand pounds of powder, were distributed along the 
side galleries, and were connected by three lines of fuses. 
Everything was in readiness for the explosion of the 
mine by six o'clock in the afternoon of the 28th of July. 



DAY BY DAY. 



Hardly one hundred and twenty-five men could be 
mustered in the ranks of the Ninth New Hampshire at 
the time of their arrival before Petersburg, about the 



1864.] THE INVESTURE OF PETERSBURG. 45 1 

middle of the afternoon of the sixteenth day of June ; 
nor were there a thousand men, all told, in the seven resr- 
iments which, including the Ninth, made up the Second 
brigade. The fatigue attendant on the forced march 
from the James river during the previous night and the 
early morning, had told severely on the endurance of the 
men : but the time for action had come, — a time when 
mere feeling is lost in the stir and rush and tumult of 
battle array. There was only a brief interval before the 
brigade was ordered in as support to General Barlow's 
division of the Second corps, which had been detailed to 
lead in a charge on the redoubt and breastworks which 
defended the southern and eastern sides of the Shand 
house. 

The attack was made about six o'clock, but little was 
accomplished beyond the securing of a few of the ene- 
my's rifle-pits, though a sharp skirmish fire was main- 
tained on both sides as long as the daylight lasted. The 
regimental loss in this charge was very light, perhaps as 
close a call as any being that of Sergeant Burnham's, 
whose characteristic good fortune had heretofore been 
proof against the enemy's bullets ; but his diary record 
for this day reads, — "I got hit on my knapsack strap, a 
little above the heart, by, as I suppose, a small ball from 
an exploding shell. The strap was very thick and hard, 
and the shot glanced oft', but it gave me a sharp blow, 
and a patch of flesh under the strap, and as large as the 
palm of my hand, was ' black and blue,' and quite sore 
for several days afterwards." 

Soon after dark the brigade was sent by regiments 
into the ravine which skirted the front of the Shand 
house, the Ninth occupying a position immediately in 
front of the house and hardl}^ fifty paces from it and the 



452 AUNTH NE VV HAMPSHIRE. [J une, 

Confederate line of works. Though close to danger, the 
men were so fatigued that during the early hours of the 
night some of them even managed to sleep a little, for 
the extreme heat of the nifjht was rendered much more 
oppressive by the enforced stillness demanded by their 
advanced position. With the coming of the first faint 
tokens of the morning, however, every man was on the 
alert, and as the word to advance was passed along the 
lines, anticipation of the work before them tightened the 
grip on the musket. 

Orders had been issued that the works were to be car- 
ried if possible by a bayonet charge, and in the thick 
darkness of the ravine the ranks of bristling steel were 
softened by the faint shimmers of moonlight that sifted 
through the tree-tops. Silently, yet swiftly, the long, 
dark line rises above the bank and sweeps down upon 
the unsuspecting and sleeping foe. So sudden has been 
the onset that the enemy make but little resistance, and 
there is very little bloodshed on either side, while the 
reward for valor far outshines the risk. The Second 
brigade, with its lorce of less than a thousand men, has 
carried the earthworks in its front, and has captured 
about four hundred prisoners, including fifteen officers, 
together with the colors of the Fifty-third Tennessee and 
three guns of the Baltimore light artillery, an exploit of 
which they may well be proud. 

This ended active movements for the Ninth New 
Hampshire for the day, though they were detailed to 
occupy the front line for some little time after the charge. 
On being relieved they were ordered back to the shelter 
of the ravine, and rested quietly during the day and the 
following night. The casualties of the regiment in this 
charge counted up fifteen wounded, a few of them mor- 



1S64.] THE INVESTURE OF PETEESBUKG. 453 

tally. On the morning of the i8th it was found that the 
enemy's lines had been drawn in nearer the city, and 
during the day the Union forces were advanced close up 
to the new position. The Ninth, with its division, was 
stationed in the edge of a pine forest, having been 
detailed as support to the batteries which occupied the 
front line, now only about a mile outside the city limits. 
This position was near enough to the enemy's works to 
get the benefit of not a few stray shots, the day's record 
showing a half dozen wounded in this way, — two of 
them, in Company A, being from the same shot. 

About midnight the regiment advanced to an open 
field in the front, and before morning were snugly 
ensconced behind a line of rifle-pits, where they lay 
close through the day. The heavy skirmish line had 
been pushed still farther forward, and w^re kept busily 
at work, but the Ninth had only to keep quiet and be 
ready for emergencies. Early in the morning there was 
a little episode that for a time threatened to make the 
situation anything but a safe one. Away to the ricrht, 
and nearly enfilading the position, was a Confederate 
battery, whose guns were at once turned on such a capi- 
tal bit of target practice. The first shell was out of 
range, and skipped along some rods behind ; the next 
came much nearer, and the boys began to feel a trifle 
nervous ; they almost held their breath in anticipation of 
what the third shot might bring in its wake, but unknown 
to them the tables had been turned. Captain Durell's 
battery of six pieces was in the edge of the woods just 
behind the Ninth, and the next sound that greeted their 
listening ears was a full broadside from his guns. Six 
shells struck under and around the enemy's single gun, 
and exploding simultaneously, practically demolished 



454 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [July, 

the earthworks, dismounted the gun, and effectually dis- 
posed of the bystanders. It was a pretty piece of work, 
and the boys voiced their thanks in a hearty cheer, for 
they felt sure they had nothing further to fear in that 
direction. The next two days were passed in the same 
position, but on the night of the 21st the Ninth, with its 
brigade, was relieved, and moved back into the woods. 

This was the commencement of a two months life in 
the Petersburg trenches, a life whose days and nights 
passed in monotonous repetition. Every other two days 
the men were in the pits, the most of the time immedi- 
ately in front of the fort that was being undermined. 
The remainder of the time they were nominally in camp, 
but this really meant that they la}' in reserve in the 
woods, though not even then so far from the front but 
that stray shell and bullets were every now and then 
dropping among them, occasionally inflicting wounds, 
or even launching at once their unfortunate victims into 
eternity. At the front a continual skirmish fire w^as kept 
up, to cover the digging of the mine, and the days that 
the regiment occupied the pits were invariably accompa- 
nied by the disabling or killing of one or more men. 
Among these were Captains Buswell and Little, the lat- 
ter being badly wounded in the foot on July 3, and the 
former mortally wounded on the 2 2d. 

Though the duty now required of the men was in some 
respects easier than that of a month and a half previous, 
and their rations, which from the Rapidan to Petersburg 
had consisted of hard-tack, fresh beef, and coffee, in 
wearisome monotony, were now improved by the addi- 
tion of soft bread, salt meats, and an occasional treat of 
fresh fruit or vegetables from the government or the San- 
itary commission, yet the constant exposure to the suffo- 




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eating dust and heat in those broiling sand-pits, the lack 
of sleep, — only snatches of which, on three nights out 
of every four, could be obtained, and was nearly impos- 
sible during the day, by reason of the heat and the 
innumerable swarms of flies — the scarcity of good water, 
and the constant anxiety and danger, broke down even 
the bravest and strongest in the regiment, sending them 
into the hospitals, from which many never returned. 

Day after day, with ever-lessening ranks they besieged 
a brave and determined foe; returning from a brief res- 
pite, that same foe confronted them ; each morning there 
were some missing who had been in the ranks the pre- 
vious day, and the men finally ceased to ask who would 
be the next to fall, and only vaguely wondered whether 
any would survive to see the end of the struggle, for the 
rows of new-made graves were daily growing longer, — 
the graves where the comrades were laid to rest without 
coffin or shroud, save the consecrated uniform of blue. 

" Few and short were the prayers we said, 
And spoke not a word of sorrow ; 
But steadfastly gazed on the face of the dead, 
And bitterly thought of the morrow." 



ALONG WITH THE COLORS. 

By Sergt. Newell T. Dutton. 

I shall never forget the march from the James river to 
Petersburg, during the night of June 15-16. We made 
the thirty miles in fifteen hours' marching time. When 
we bivouacked for breakfast at six o'clock, Ned Parsons 
and myself with the colors, and three men to make a 
stack of arms to rest them against, represented the regi- 



456 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [June, 

ment ; but the rest soon came up, and we pushed on for 
the front. On the night of the i6th, while lying on the 
ground in position for the charge next morning, we were 
so near the enemy's works as to feel the breath of the 
guns when fired. Lieutenant Emery and myself were 
hugging the ground within a foot of each other, and a 
bullet struck the ground full force between our heads. 
Each thought the other hit, and both jumped up to find 
if it were so. In the morning, when the charge was 
made, the boys found a goose-pen near the Shand house, 
and the squawking of geese mingled with the last rifle 
shots and the cheers of victory. 

Sunday, the 19th, we lay in the pits in the broiling 
sun. An apple tree just to the rear promised shelter, 
and three of us scooped out a hole and got into it. Dur- 
ing the da}^ a friend from a neighboring battery called, 
and the four of us sat around the sides of the pit, with 
heads ducked close as possible. Presently a sharpshooter 
sent a bullet with such precision of aim that it cut the 
wire of the fatigue cap which the battery man wore. 
He fell forward, and we thought him killed, but he 
picked himself up, and we all got back into the open 
trenches again. It was a close call. 

That night there was so little room in the trenches, 
that in order for all to get in we had to lie heads to 
feet, like sardines in a box. I placed my colors back of 
me, so if anything happened in the night I could easily 
lay my hands upon them. All at once there came the 
fierce rebel yell, and a column of men were leaping over 
the breastworks upon us. I jumped up, seized my colors, 
and ran back a couple of rods before I was fairly awake. 
It was only a dream, but so realistic that to this day I can 
see those men and hear them veil. 



1864.] THE INVESTUKE OF PETERSBURG. 457 

The front line, where for nearly two months we spent 
every other forty-eight hours, was a most trying place. 
The pit was widened out by throwing the dirt backward 
as well as forward, so as to give more room for the men 
to move about. It was six feet wide by six feet deep from 
the top of the parapet, and traverses were cut through the 
dirt thrown back, so that we could pass into the pit with- 
out exposure. The sight of even a rag always brought 
a rebel bullet, and the least exposure meant wounds or 
death. Some days the heat was intense and almost unen- 
durable, and we were much like beans in a bean-hole — 
well baked. Sand-bags had to be constantly replaced 
upon the parapet in front, as the Johnnies would aim to 
strike the top, with the hope that the bullet would glance 
into the pit. As the firing was constantly kept up, we 
were continually covered with sand, and we could scarcely 
eat a meal or drink our coffee without getting it dusted. 

Just over the breastworks stood a tree six or eight 
inches in diameter, which in time was wholly shot 
away, and many a bullet glancing from the tree into 
the pit was the cause of wounds and death. I was 
standing just at the rear of the pit one day, when a 
bullet struck the tree, glanced to the ground, and 
glancing the second time struck me with spent force 
on the thigh. Alvin Richards was lying on his back 
one morning in the pit, sound asleep, when a piece — as 
large as the palm of the hand — of a shell that was fired 
from one of our guns and burst prematurely, struck him 
exactly over the heart and killed him instantly. The 
lines were so near that we could throw out no pickets, 
and so had to be constantly on the alert. When in line 
we stood close together, one or two men deep. One half 
the force was always on duty, and from two to six o'clock 



458 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [June, 

in the morning and about nine o'clock in the evening — 
the times when attacks were most likely to be made — the 
whole force was kept ready for action. 

It was severe service, and we were always glad to be 
relieved and go to the rear, though this was only partial 
relief. It was hardly a mile aw^ay, and many stray bul- 
lets came to us as messengers of wounds and death. We 
were continually harassed by these missiles, as well as by 
shells from a small dog or mortar battery of two guns. 
These were dropped upon us every day. Usually the 
explosion of the guns would be a signal for the men to 
be on the alert ; but not hearing that, the shells would all 
too frequently be a most unwelcome surprise. One 
night, as I sat on the ground drinking my coffee, two 
shells struck, a rod or so apart, on either side of me. 
One was buried in the ground and did not burst, the 
other exploded as it struck, but I flung myself back- 
wards, prone upon the ground, and was not injured. 

One day two men were lying on their backs under a 
piece of shelter tent tied to four stakes, looking at the 
pictures of a Harper's Weel'/y, which they held between 
them. A shell fell through the tent, buried itself in the 
ground between them, and burst. One of the men 
escaped entirely unharmed, the other had the flesh 
badly torn from the calf of his leg. Under a volcano 
caused by the explosion of a twenty-five pound shell, 
it was a miracle that both were not blown to pieces. 

Every day brought but a repetition of such scenes. It 
was a most trying experience, and yet the men for the 
most part were brave and cheerful, stood up hopefully to 
their work, watched with interest the digging of the mine 
under the fort in front, enjoyed the good rations, sent and 
received their mail daily, were thankful it was no worse 



1864.] THE INVESTURE OF PETERSBURG. 459 

with them, and yet rejoiced and were glad when the 
final relief on August 18 removed them to quieter lines 
and pleasanter places. 



IN THE TRENCHES. 

(Frofn the Diary of Sergeant Burn/iani.) 

June 22. — Pleasant. Were relieved last night by the 
First brigade, and moved back into the woods. Clean- 
ing up was the principal business of the day. In the 
afternoon I rambled off a mile or two to the rear, and 
looked over the works we captured on the 17th. They 
were extensive, well built, and complete. Am surprised 
we got there as easily as we did. Lively firing, both by 
skirmishers and artillery, in the early evening. Did not 
disturb us very much, though we are still near enough 
to the front to get the benefit of a shell and even a stray 
rifle ball occasionally. 

June 25. — Hot, very. Once in a while the pickets 
get up a racket, otherwise it is quiet and monotonous. 
This evening Johnny tossed a few shells over, which 
burst near us but hurt no one. The sharpshooters bang 
away about all the time, but hurt very few. Nearly in 
front of us our engineers have commenced work on a 
mine they propose to run underneath a large fort, which 
is a portion of the enemy's line of entrenchments. 

June 26. — Lay in the woods, and took it easy most of 
the day. Got some ice this morning, from a mine of that 
article we have discovered near by, and with its aid 
have an unusually cool day for this hot spell. Some 
other luxuries, donated to us by the Sanitary commission, 
such as lemons, pickles, and sauer-kraut, were another 
feature of the day. The commissary department is now 



460 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [June, 

doing very well, and we have little cause for complaint 
about our rations. 

June 28. — A little cooler. The usual firing kept up ; 
sometimes only an occasional popping by a few men on 
each side, practising, after the way of sharpshooters, 
each man on his own account ; and again a more general 
fusillade, in which all in the intrenchments take part. 
We are squarely in front of the fort that is being under- 
mined, and only about one hundred and fifty yards from 
it. The top of our earthworks is protected by bags of 
sand, arranged so as to make port-holes through which 
to fire. To some extent, the same is true of Johnny's 
intrenchment. It is through these port-holes that most 
of the firing is done. Tried my hand at it a while, and 
know I cut Johnny's sand-bags some, but presume that it 
is all the harm that I did him. We had one killed and 
one wounded in our regiment during the day. 

June 29. — To-day Johnny tried his mortars, and landed 
two or three shells near our pits, but did little or no 
harm. Scared some of the men considerably. Put up 
some more sand-bags on the breastworks during the day, 
making it high enough to cover us when standing erect, 
and with port-holes through which to shoot. A scraggly, 
thick abatis has been placed in front. We are in shape 
to give the enemy a warm welcome should they attempt 
a visit. Carpenter of K, and Flynn of B, were killed 
to-day. 

June 30. — Were relieved at about nine o'clock last 
evening, and returned to the bivouac which we have 
come to consider our camp. In coming through the sap 
(a trench constructed so as to afford shelter in passing 
from the works at the front to places of safety at the 
rear) there was considerable excitement. The rebel 



1864.] THE IN VESTURE OF PETERSBURG. 46 1 

mortars opened fire. The effect was disastrous upon the 
nerves of some, and the ducking, hustling, and attempts 
at running were enough to make a horse laugh. Were 
mustered to-day for May and June. Company E has 
sixty-six names on its roll yet, but there are only twenty- 
six present with the regiment, and nineteen carrying 
guns. Absurd rumors are afloat that the Ninth is going 
to be sent to New Hampshire for recruiting service. 

July 4. — This morning Mr. Edwards of West Lebanon 
called on us. Is at present with the Christian commis- 
sion, and he brought us some little luxuries from their 
stores. He is very agreeable, and we enjoyed his visit 
very much. A good many of the men are nearly sick. 
In the way of rations, drew soft bread and pickles in 
addition to the usual supplies. 

July 5. — Button and I visited the division hospital, 
which is a couple of miles or so to the rear. Near it is 
a detachment and supply tent of the Christian commis- 
sion. Remained to dinner, which we at least pro- 
nounced excellent. At the table made the acquaintance 
of " Carleton," of the Boston 'Journal. He is a plain, 
honest, dignified-appearing man, of nearly fifty, I should 
think. Works with the commission, and does no small 
amount of good in their service, besides attending to his 
duties as a correspondent. 

July 7. — A nearly spent Minie ball struck me on the 
right shoulder this afternoon. Was sitting on my knap- 
sack writing. It knocked me over, and for a moment 
I thought it had gone through me. Soon found, how- 
ever, that I was not seriously hurt. It partially cut 
through my clothing, and broke the skin over the collar- 
bone just enough to draw a little blood — the first Johnnv 
has drawn on me. 



462 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [July, 

July II. — Considerable firing last night, but quiet 
again to-day. Towards evening the Johnnies got up a 
sort of armistice, and tried to exchange papers ; but this 
was contrary to orders, and we declined. Relieved at 
9 130 p. m. Got out this time with one man wounded as 
the only casualty. 

July 12. — A little cooler. Went back to where the 
cooks are camped and had a glorious wash, also a glo- 
rious meal of greens. Yesterday we had a great treat in 
the shape of a ration of cider, with some other Sanitary 
supplies. 

July 18. — A big scare last night. Enemy about to 
attack, sure. Whole division rushed to the front, and 
kept impatiently waiting for the expected visitors. They, 
however, failed to keep the engagement, and at sunrise 
we returned, except the companies from our regiment 
who remained as special detail. It seems our turn for a 
rest has come, and we are " reserves," for to-day at least. 
Company drill in the forenoon, battalion drill in the after- 
noon, and dress parade at sunset. Good thing, though 
it makes the men growl. 

July 19. — Rain. The first for nearly six weeks. Lay 
in our tents and enjoyed it. It brings relief from heat 
and dust, and in large measure from the flies, which have 
been very troublesome. 

[From a letter home.] July 25. — Our brigade has 
lately been building a fort on a slight eminence in the 
rear of our lines, and to-day the guns — heavy thirty- 
twos — are going in. These, with our field artillery and 
mortars, will be able to give Johnny about all the rotten 
iron he can easily stand, as we imagine. When we do 
duty at the front, too, a game is on foot to give our 
friends a pleasant surprise some morning. We are under- 



1864.] THE INVESTURE OF PETERSBURG. 463 

mining one of their forts. I understand the powder is 
now going into the mine. When all is complete, we pro- 
pose treating Johnny to a ride free gratis moonward. 
Wonder how he will like it? Day before yesterday we 
had another casualty in Company E. Captain Buswell 
was badly wounded. Hear to-day he cannot live. The 
ball struck him in the back of the shoulder, passed 
through the shoulder-blade, struck some of the other 
bones, and glanced down under his ribs, where it now^ 
remains. The surgeons thought the chances of life in 
his favor, but guess it is doubtful. Lieutenant Sampson 
has been assigned to the command of our company. I 
regard him as a capable, efficient man, and hope he may 
be spared to us a long time. 

July 27. — The chief excitement among us was a duel 
between a saucy Johnny and myself. He was a little to 
our left, and on higher ground. We put up a shelter 
tent over the particular bit of trench a few of us in 
Company E occupied. Johnny caught sight of it, and 
opened furiously, succeeding in working two or three 
button-holes in our canvas. I arranged a port-hole with 
the sand-bags so as to bear upon him. He had no sand- 
bags, but fired through a little depression in their earth- 
works. I commenced practice on him, and in a few min- 
utes had the range, and knocked so much dust in his 
eyes that he concluded to keep quiet. Soon after dinner, 
however, he opened fire again. I responded, and soon 
silenced his battery. He then kept quiet till near sun- 
down, when he renewed the attack. I kept quiet till he 
had fired two or three times, when I put my rifle through 
the port-hole and watched for him. Presently his rifle 
appeared in the usual place, and then his head came into 
view as he attempted to draw a bead on m}' port-hole. I 



464 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [June, 

fired, his hands and rifle went up in the air, and he fell 
back, evidently with a bullet in his brain. 

[The experience of Sergeant Burnham in his duel with 
the Confederate sharpshooter, came to be a pretty gen- 
eral one before the siege was broken, and this constant 
practice made the men of the Ninth very proficient 
marksmen, a statement of which the enemy had abundant 
proof in those days in the number of dead and wounded 
that were daily carried back from their picket line.] 

July 29.— Notice that large quantities of ammunition 
are delivered to the batteries about us. Looks squally. 



BITS OF HOME LETTERS. 

(Sergt. James W. Lathe.) 

June 21. — Canfield was badly wounded to-day in the 
arm, just above the elbow — do n't think he will lose it. 
Another man, by the name of Russell, of our compan}^ 
was also wounded in the hand. I am the only sergeant 
left in Company F, and these are hard times, but I am 
well and in good spirits. We have no chance to wash 
our clothes, so of course we are dirty, and some are very 
ragged. I found a pair of rebel pants, and am wearing 
them. I got nearly barefoot, and I pulled a pair of shoes 
off a dead man's feet, and put them on. I could n't see 
as he had any use for them, and I had ; so I pulled them 
off, and I think I was right. I do n't know what you 
would think at home to be obliged to rob a dead man to 
prevent going barefoot. You wanted to know if Captain 
Stone's body was sent home. It was buried at Freder- 



1864.] THE INVESTURE OF PETERSBURG. 465 

icksburg, without a coffin or a box. It would look hard 
at home, but nothing strange to a soldier. 

June 23. — Just think of these sleepless nights ! I have 
seen nearly two moons wax and wane as I have kept my 
nightly vigils, and still no signs of any advantage on 
either side. 

June 25. — I know you will want to hear from me as 
often as possible while we are in this dreadful place. 
From the long lists of killed and wounded, which you of 
course see in the papers, you will infer that it is not a 
very safe place. It is a bad place to write, curled up in 
the dirt in a ditch dug to keep down out of the way of 
shot and shell. If a man lifts his head above the pit, a 
bullet is sure i be after him, and we have to move about 
more or less . . : ight of the rebs ; but we usually move 
lively, and so a: not so apt to be hit as when standing 
still. Freeman comes to us three or four times every 
day, to bring us hot coffee, rations of bread, meat, soup, 
and whiskey. We are getting a plenty to eat just now. 

June 26. — To-day is the most quiet for us of an}'^ for 
two months, but in the front line they are having a hot 
time from the sun, and most too many shells bursting 
over them for comfort. The First brigade is in now ; 
we go in again to-morrow. I wish you could hear the 
musketry at night. Sometimes, when one side or the 
other becomes alarmed, thinking a charge is being made, 
all hands up and fire, the other side replying, the sound 
running down the line as far as you can hear. This is 
kept up sometimes for an hour or two, and sounds as if 
the ground was sliding out from under our feet. I call 
them " spasms." 

June 27. — Some of our men run across a lot of ice the 
other day, near the railroad. It is in a bad place to get 

XXX 



466 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [July, 

at, on account of the rebel sharpshooters, but there is a 
pile of it there, and the boys will have it anyway. It 
seems to last well, and I hope it will while we stay here. 
The Christian commission is doing a great work down 
here, not only with the wounded, but they are continu- 
ally making presents to different regiments, of dried 
apples, lemons, tobacco, and the like, all in small quan- 
tities of course. Yesterday I saw a man passing letter- 
paper around, one sheet and an envelope to every man. 
Sutlers begin to bring in things, but money is very scarce 
among the soldiers, not getting any for months. No 
chance for paymasters here — it is too near the rebs. 

July I. — There was quite heavy firing nearly all night 
last night. I hear that a large number of shells were 
thrown into Petersburg, and it was said that the city was 
on fire. We are almost exactly in front of Petersburg, 
or rather, Petersburg is in front of us. The bells could 
be heard ringing last night. We are not much more 
than a mile from the city. We have to go into the 
front pits to-night for forty-eight hours ; I dread it, but 
have become so used to it that it don't make much odds 
where I am. 

July II. — We came in from the front lines last night, 
having been out forty-eight hours. But one was hit dur- 
ing that time. He lost his arm. We usually have from 
three to six in killed and wounded. We had several 
chances to see the rebs yesterday and day before. We 
would stop firing by mutual consent, and stand up in 
sight and speaking distance, about one hundred yards 
apart. Many are sick with the diarrhea, but they must 
be kept on duty. No man is allowed to be sick here. 
The Sanitary and Christian commissions, or the friends 
at home, are sending us pickles, crackers, cornstarch. 



iS64.] THE INVESTURE OF PETERSBURG. 467 

condensed milk, and lots of good things. They come 
in small quantities, but it must take a pile to go round to 
the whole army. They are very thankfully received, 
and you can judge whether they are relished. 

July 13. — We have some very good springs about a 
mile in our rear, and the cooks do their work down 
there, and bring our provisions up to us, making a good 
deal of hard work — but it is all hard work. War is 
hard in every sense of the word. It is a very popular 
nuisance, and a great enemy to mankind. 

July 16. — I had a very good time on picket — I fired 
nearly two hundred rounds at the rebels in the forty- 
eight hours, and nearly every time I had a good sight at 
a rebel's head. Some of them may have got hit ; it 
would be strange if they did n't. I should dislike very 
much to shoot a man, if I could convert him in any other 
way, but I can't afford to stay out here more than two or 
three years for nothing. It is certainly strange how a 
man can become accustomed to shells falling around, 
big guns booming, and musketry at his side ; but I can 
sleep as soundly in the midst of it as you can in your 
comfortable bed. It has been so long since I have 
heard anything else, that it seems as though something 
was wrong if they stop even for a few minutes. 

July 18. — Company F is getting smaller all the time. 
We carried sixtv-seven rifles when we started on this 
campaign ; now we carry twenty-seven, and have the 
largest company in the regiment. 

July 21. — We have got to get back in the woods, and 
drill in sight of the rebel works. I do n't see why the 
rebs don't shell us, but they never have. They seem to 
be a merciful lot of men. I think that they would hardly 
be allowed to drill in sight of our batteries, if they were a 



468 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [July, 

mile awaV' That is about the distance from them to 
where we drill. I am going down to the sutler's and 
buy some potatoes and onions and have a good dinner 
once more. I got some apples yesterday, and they were 
good, awful good, too, but they cost high. I got ten 
small ones for a quarter. Potatoes cost fifteen cents a 
quart, so it will not pay to buy man}-^ of them. 

July 25. — I have been out taking a general survey of 
the fortifications around here to-day. There are about 
2,000 negro soldiers at work digging, and have been 
for some time. The fields are dug in deep ditches in 
every direction, and large forts line our second line of 
works. I suppose you have a poor idea of the mischief 
the shells do sometimes. It is like the bursting of a 
volcano. Occasionall}'^ they do no harm. Plenty of 
them come into this pine grove, and have done but little 
harm. Still I had rather be a long way from them — so 
far that I should never hear one of them again. 

July 26. — We are in a different place since we 'came 
out to the front line of trenches, and seem to be less 
exposed to mortar shells ; but they have a cross-fire on 
us with musketry, and several have been killed and 
wounded. This is a cramped up kind of life for a man 
that wants action to make himself comfortable. Charley 
(a drummer) is peddling apples and the like, and if the 
troops were paid off he would get quite a pile. Men 
here do n't seem to care much about money, only to make 
them comfortable and get something to eat. We get 
very good rations, and half the time we have soft bread. 

July 29. — There is more artillery firing than common, 
and there were some large hundred-pound mortars 
brought in here last night. I reckon the rebs will get 
waked up by those awful shells. The report of one of 



1864.] THE INVESTURE OF PETERSBURG. 469 

them is ten times louder than any peal of thunder you 
ever heard, and if they strike the ground they will go in 
about six feet and explode, and bad luck to anything 
that is over it, for it will be histed. Some regiments 
have been paid for four months. The soldiers have been 
raised to sixteen dollars a month, corporals eighteen, 
sergeants twenty, and orderly sergeants twenty-four or 
twenty-five, I don't know which. 



CLIPPINGS FROM MAJOR CHANDLER'S CORRESPONDENCE. 

{Capt. E. C. Babb.) 

June 21. — Our brigade is in line behind strong works 
in an open field, while the Johnnies occupy similar works 
but forty rods distant. The Norfolk & Petersburg rail- 
road runs between the two lines, and our skirmishers here 
have advanced across the railroad, making it pretty close 
work. There is no safety for us, except that each man 
keeps in his hole, and then, our portion of the line 
being farther advanced than the rest, some of their 
sharpshooters get an enfilading fire from our right, 
and have hit some of our men in the pits. I had two 
men wounded to-day. Sergeant Canfield had his right 
arm badly shattered above the elbow, while lying down 
in the pit about noon. Each ofiicer, or the officers 
belonging to each company, have a hole dug immedi- 
ately in the rear of their respective companies, and I 
assure you that I do not leave mine between daylight 
and dark. Captain Hough's quarters (hole) are within 
ten feet of mine, and I have not seen or heard of him 
since early dawn, and it is now near night. We have 
been situated in this way for nearly three days, but 



470 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [July, 

expect to be relieved to-night. Our brigade did a hand- 
some thing last Friday morning about three o'clock, in 
charging and driving the rebs out of their works, about a 
mile in the rear of where we now are, and capturing 
four pieces of artillery. Our regiment made a charge 
when we were at Cold Harbor, advancing about a quar- 
ter of a mile from the rest of the brigade, across a deep 
ravine, and driving the rebs out of their works with the 
loss of only fifteen wounded and two killed. The rest of 
the brigade soon came up and joined us, and we estab- 
lished a new line on the advanced position. 

(Capt. C. D. Copp.) 

June 25. — If any appointment of second lieutenant is 
made in my company from the company, I would like to 
have Sergt. Jerome Kelley. He has had charge of 
the company, or has acted as orderly, all through this 
campaign, has done his duty faithfully, and a braver 
soldier never lived. I know nothing of any appoint- 
ments, but merely write this to let you know my prefer- 
ence. I have not been with the regiment for a week, 
being completely " played out." Lieutenant Case is 
also here (City Point) with me. 

(Capt. C. D. Copp.) 

July 3. — I wrote you from City Point, where I was sick 
for a few days. It is not a very pleasant place to be sick 
in, so I concluded to rejoin my regiment — either to get 
better or worse. So far I have done well, although not 
yet reported for duty. It is the old complaint of last 
fall — intermittent fever ; was taken on the march from 
Cold Harbor to the James river, and was obliged to ride 
in an ambulance two days. I suppose you think your- 
self very unfortunate in being wounded. Well, you are. 



1864.] THE INVESTURE OF PETERSBURG. 47 1 

in one sense ; in another mighty lucky — and any other 
man who got out of this campaign. We all thought we 
had seen rough times, but it was boys' play compared to 
this. After you were carried oif, the regiment reformed 
in the woods, having rallied about sixty men, and went 
to the front, where we remained a week, till the i8th of 
May, when we made another advance. Since then we 
have been marching, and fighting half the time, till about 
the 19th of June, when things came to a standstill, and 
in my opinion will remain so for the present. Not having 
been with the regiment for several weeks, I am not pre- 
pared to say much about the fighting, but one thing I do 
know, there is no better fighting regiment than the Ninth 
New Hampshire volunteers in this army. Even General 
Griffin compliments us. At Shady Grove he came and 
tendered his thanks to the men and officers, personally, 
for their gallant conduct. The duty is not very hard 
now, and it is well it is not, for the men and officers are 
nearly worn out. The lines are close together, so that 
no pickets are out, or rather a whole brigade goes on at 
a time, strong breastw^orks being built for the picket line. 
A brigade goes on for forty-eight hours, and off" forty- 
eight hours. You cannot show your head above the 
works with safety. Captain Little was wounded yester- 
day in the foot. Had two toes amputated, and left for 
City Point to-day. We now have about one hundred 
and eighty rifles. Out of that one hundred recruits, 
thirty arrived here, which makes about two hundred 
and ten for duty. You had better suggest to the gov- 
ernor that if he wishes to get any men to their regi- 
ments, he had better have an old regiment at home to 
go out as guard, and I think the Ninth could do it " to 
a charm." Don't you? I advise you to stay at home as 



472 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [July, 

long as you can ; it is too hot out here. I suppose you 
know Lieutenant Cheney has been promoted to first 
lieutenant of Company I, thus leaving me alone. 

(Adjt. William I. Brown.) 

July 6. — First, will answer your questions. Lieu- 
tenant Babb is present. Lieutenant Wilcox has been 
missing since the 12th of May. We need some field 
officer or ranking captain badly. Whitfield is sick at 
Cincinnati. Cooper is not on duty, and has just handed 
in his resignation on surgeon's certificate. Captain 
Blaisdell is going to resign soon. Lieutenant Perry is 
out of the service. You know the adjutant-general's 
report 3'ou sent — it was received yesterday morning. 
All hands looked it over, but failed to discover that Lieu- 
tenant Perry was noted as discharged April 20. Doctor 
Gibson first discovered it — in less than two minutes 
Lieutenant Perry went to head-quarters to see about it. 
At the Corps he found his papers. He leaves for home 
next Saturday, the most happy man you ever saw. 
Colonel Babbitt sent an extension of twenty da3's, and 
thought he might be able to join us by that time. I hope 
he will, for I tell you, Major, the regiment needs a com- 
mander. 

Our duties now are as regular as the days come 
round. Forty-eight hours at the front, in the trenches, 
and forty-eight back, partially out of range but within 
supporting distance. Have had one review of the bri- 
gade, and one dress parade. It is rather a monoto- 
nous life. Martin Flynn was hit at last. Had had 
trouble with one of the men, and went out of the pits to 
tell Lieutenant Quimby that he was going to lick that 
man. He was returning, with words of vengeance on 



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Capt. H. Baxter Quimby, Co. B. 



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1864.] THE IN VESTURE OF PETERSBURG. 473 

his lips, when he was shot through the head. Hamihon 
Carpenter, from Concord, is killed ; also old man Rich- 
ards of Company C. The rebel mortars begin to trouble 
us some. The pits cover us from bullets, but when a 
bombshell drops into the pit, why it subjects one to the 
inconvenience of getting right out. We have received 
about thirty of the one hundred recruits sent to us. Had 
to string up some of them to trees for getting drunk. 
They found rum where the old men could not. Rations 
of whiskey are issued, which just keep up a thirst for 
more. 

The Fourth was a very quiet day — not even the usual 
picket firing. Every one seemed to suppose there would 
be a celebration on that day. Of course you remember 
where you were one year ago that day. The great event 
of the day with the regiment was a large mail. We get 
a mail here every day, and newspapers. Sutlers' sup- 
plies are plenty, but money scarce. We expect to get 
paid on the 15th. General and staff officers have all 
been paid. Rumors are very current that one of the 
New Hampshire regiments is going home to enforce the 
draft, and that it will be the Ninth or Eleventh, more 
likely the latter. It caused considerable enthusiasm when 
first started. I think you will have time to get well, 
come out, and go home with us, when we do go. 

(Sergt. Maj. Franklin H. Foster.) 

July 9. — The Chronicle says " The army has settled 
down to a state of quiescence," which is literally the case, 
the pickets of the Ninth corps being the only ones that 
exchange shots, both musketry and artillery. I account 
for it in this way : Our corps is much farther advanced 
than any other corps on the line ; the picket lines are 



474 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [July, 

simply the lines of battle, and being in such close prox- 
imity to each other, both are continually on the alert. 
Occasionally there is a burst of artillery and musketry, 
that will commence on the right and will finally extend 
along the whole line, and then it will become still again. 
The heat is almost intolerable, and flies torment us to 
death, and in spite of all you can do will prevent your 
sleeping in the daytime. We have the luxury of ice, 
there being two ice-houses in this vicinity. Fortunate 
for us that they are inside our lines. We have also 
obtained Sanitary Commission supplies, which have been 
thankfully received by the soldiers. I am glad that the 
commission has learned that well men need these delica- 
cies as well as sick ones. 

(Adjt. William I. Bj'own.) 

July i8. — Your certificate of disability came this morn- 
ing. Am sorry that you recover so slowly. Certificate 
also received this morning from Colonel Babbitt. We 
have two hundred and thirty guns. Many without 
arms. Quite a number present sick. Lieutenant Copp 
went to the hospital last night. Day before yesterday 
Captain Hough and I went to Bermuda Hundreds to see 
the Third and Seventh New Hampshire. They are hav- 
ing a fine time of it — nice camp, easy picketing. Most 
splendid works, from river to river. They can't know 
what kind of a life we are leading. You have perhaps 
seen in the illustrated papers a picture of the rebs shell- 
ing General Butler upon his famous look-out. I had the 
pleasure to go up that — one hundred and fifty feet high, 
made upon four pine sticks. Can see Richmond from it. 

Last night an attack was expected from the enemy, 
and preparations were made to meet it, but it did not 



1S64.] THE INVESTUKE OF PETERSBURG. 475 

come. Our regiment was ordered up in the night to 
occupy the most important position on the line — a ravine. 
Our baggage is all there (at City Point) and is brought 
up every Sunday. We are still leading a ver}- unpleas- 
ant life, — only from day to day. Have nothing at all 
with which to make ourselves comfortable. Money all 
out — commissary won't trust — hard times these. We 
hear constant rumors that the Ninth or Eleventh is 
going home to do duty at Concord. Shall we not stand 
some chance to go home and vote in the fall? You knew 
Captain Little was wounded? — lost two toes. We have 
just ten officers on duty in the line. Hubbard is in the 
Ambulance corps. 

(Capt. C. D. Copp.) 

July 29. — Here I am at last in a hospital [Officers' 
hospital, Camac's Woods, Philadelphia, Pa.], not 
wounded, but sick: "played out" expresses it better. 
Dr. Webster sent me to City Point, and from there I 
came to this place. When I left, affairs were about 
" so-so." Captain Hough is still in command. Just as 
I left, " Shep " told me Captain Buswell was wounded 
through the shoulder. Whether seriously or not, I am 
unable to say. 



AS TOLD BY THE COMRADES. 

One day, while Lieutenant Perry, Sergeant George, 
Sergeant Wakefield, and Charles F. Sleeper were lying 
in a bomb-proof, busily engaged with a copy of the Man- 
chester Mirror, a hostile shell, " on mischief bent," 
came crashing through the boughs with which the bomb- 
proof was covered, and buried itself in the ground close 



476 NINTH NE W HAMPSHIRE. [J une, 

beside Sleeper. In another instant the shell exploded, 
covering the men with dirt and filling their supposed 
secure quarters with smoke and dust. Half blinded as 
they were with the flying debris, it was some time before 
the men could fully realize that they were unharmed, 
except Sleeper, who had received the force of the burst- 
ing shell in his leg, blowing and burning nearly all the 
flesh off". 

A similar adventure befell another quartette of com- 
rades, who were whiling away the time in testing the 
varying fortunes of " draw poker." The game had 
been opened with two queens, and as the hands promised 
well the "jack-pot" became an unusually interesting 
feature. Excitement was running high when — ^just at the 
critical moment — a smoking shell came plump into their 
midst. Cards, jack-pot, and everything else were for- 
gotten in the hurried scramble for the opening which fol- 
lowed ; but though all the players escaped injury, the 
man who held the winning hand has never ceased to 
lament that the intruding shell deprived him of a most 
promising pot. 

In the charge on the enemy's works on the i8th, the 
Ninth was subjected to a very heavy fire. In the course 
of the engagement a solid twelve-pound shot came 
through the woods, struck a tree, recoiled to the ground, 
rebounded just high enough to strike Sergt. Henry F. 
Partridge of Company I on the right hip, throwing him 
to the ground by the force of the blow, and then rolled 
some distance farther before finally ending its career. 
Partridge was carried to the rear for dead, but recover- 
ing consciousness, was taken to the hospital, and re- 
joined the regiment on the loth of September. At the 
Battle of Poplar Grove Church, September 30, Partridge 



1864.] THE INVESTURE OF PETERSBURG. 477 

was again wounded, this time through the left hip, and 
was again consigned to the hospital. Thirty years have 
slipped away since those memorable days, and Comrade 
Partridge still enjoys telling the story of how the Con- 
federates wasted their lead. 

Another peculiar incident occurred in the trenches. 
One day a soldier was lying asleep on the ground, when 
a shell burst just over his head. He never awoke, nor 
was there any mark of injury upon him, but the shock of 
the bursting had taken away his breath. 

In the advance at the Shand house, June 17, the Ninth 
moved to the front on the evening of the i6th, taking 
position close under the enemy's works. Every precau- 
tion was used to ensure a silent advance, but the wary 
enemy, not so easily fooled, were wide awake and on the 
alert for all intruders, so that the Ninth got a warm re- 
ception and were glad to hug the ground pretty close. 
After a time the firing ceased, but not before several 
casualties had ensued. Among the wounded was Ser- 
geant Wakefield, w^ho was struck in the left side by a 
Minie. The ball passed through a diary, a Testament, 
a piece of cloth used for cleaning his gun, and cutting 
through his leather belt inflicted a severe contused 
wound. The plucky sergeant refused to go to the rear, 
and supporting his cartridge box by a cross-strap from 
the shoulder, remained with his company until the regi- 
ment was relieved. 



"THE WILD IRISHMAN." 

Martin Flynn, more commonly known as " the wild 
Irishman," who was shot through the head on the 29th 
of June, was perhaps the most notorious character in the 
regiment, and was very generally detested for his quar- 



478 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [June, 

relsome, Ugly disposition; but "Mart" and his eccen- 
tricities will not soon be forgotten, and a few of the many 
anecdotes now extant may well find a place here ; 

A. P. Home. — Mart was in my company, and was 
always getting into trouble. When we first went into 
camp at Arlington Heights, on our way out, he was 
stood on a barrel for some misdemeanor, and from that 
time on he was in a row with somebody so long as there 
was any breath left in him. While we were at Falmouth 
he was sent down to Newport News for striking Sergeant 
Tucker of his own company, and at Paris, Ky., he got 
in a quarrel with a man in Company I, who shot Mart in 
the neck, but to the great regret of everybody just missed 
killing him. I had a little experience with him at Spott- 
sylvania. When we were in the last piece of woods, 
just before we came out of the opening. Major Chandler 
rode up to Lieutenant Quimby, and stating that Mart 
had never been in a fight with the regiment, ordered the 
lieutenant to detail a corporal's guard, and see that Mart 
was kept well up to the front. The lieutenant turned 
the job over to me, and a nice time I had of it ; but I 
took him ahead of me down into the fight, and got him, 
I should think, pretty near up to the breastworks. Later 
on it was so hot that I had all I wanted to do to take care 
of myself, and I knew Mart would make for the rear all 
right, so I let him go. 

Lieutenant Wilcox. — Mart would get full every chance 
he could, and sometimes he was with the company and 
sometimes he was n't. Once he was arrested for getting 
drunk and running away, and they took a pork-barrel, 
knocked one end out, cut a hole through the other end, 
and hung it over his shoulders. The orders were to 



1864.] THE INVESTURE OF PETERSBURG. 479 

make him carry the barrel, and whenever a commis- 
sioned officer came within hearing distance Mart would 
d — n him all up in a heap. While he was wearing the 
barrel a snow-storm came on, and the corporal kept him 
in that pork-barrel, out in the snow-storm, until it was 
clear up around his nose — seven days he wore it, from 
reveille to sunset. 

Captain Babb. — After he had worn that barrel four or 
five days some women came into the camp to sell pies, 
and when they got along pretty near where he was one 
of them said, "See the man with the barrel there!" 
Mart heard her and called out, " Give me a piece of that 
pie ! " So she laid one down on the top of the barrel, 
and he would reach out his tongue and get it around a 
corner of the pie and hold it until he took a bite out, and 
he ate half of a pie in that way. At the time he was 
killed I was making out my muster- and pay-rolls, close 
to the line of the fort where the mine was, when I heard 
Flynn say, "G — d d — n you!" and heard him jump. 
That was nothing new for him, however, and I kept on 
with my work, but it was n't a minute before somebody 
poked their head in and said that Flynn had been killed. 
He was a man hardly ever in a battle or fight, except 
with somebody, in his own company or regiment, but a 
man who was never subdued by any punishment that was 
invented while he was in the army. He fully merited 
his cognomen of " the wild Irishman." 

Sergeant Biirnhain. — Flynn was in a quarrel with a 
comrade when he was shot. He had sprung up, rifle in 
hand, threatening to shoot, and in his excitement stepped 
onto a little mound, thus exposing himself to the enemy's 
view. That was enough to seal his fate, and a rifle ball 



480 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [June, 

from the enemy's lines went through his head while a 
terrible oath with which he accompanied his threat to 
his comrade was still upon his lips. Dropping to the 
ground, he expired instantly, and apparently without the 
movement of a single muscle after he fell. Speaking of 
this fact not long afterwards, Lieutenant Qiiimby said, 
" Mart Flynn was killed the deadest of any man I ever 
saw ! " From this the phrase " as dead as Mart Flynn " 
came into use in the regiment. 



ESTABLISHING A CLAIM. 
By Lieut. S. H. Perry. 

Arriving near Petersburg on the afternoon of the i6th 
of June, we rested near some old works until about sun- 
down, when we were ordered into line and took up a 
position joining onto the Second corps. Early in the 
evening we were advanced, and found the enemy in our 
front, near an old house. We were sent up, and took 
our position, one company at a time ; and as I dressed 
my company (G) up to Company I, I inquired if any 
more troops were in our front, and sending one of my 
sergeants back to find out, at once gave the order to lie 
down. This order having been carried out, we immedi- 
ately found out that we were at the front, as the rebs 
opened on us. Directly in our front was a Virginia 
fence, which the men utilized for breastworks, and with 
their bayonets and tin plates soon had a cover. It was a 
clear, moonlight night, and all objects could be readily 
distinguished, so we had to keep close, firing whenever 
an opportunity offered and generally getting a shot in 
return. 



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Sergt. Webster Heath, Co. B. 



1 864-] THE INVESTURE OF PETERSBURG. 48 1 

This lasted until about midnight, when all seemed to 
quiet down. Towards four o'clock in the morning the 
Forty-eighth Pennsylvania, the Second Maryland, and 
the Seventeenth Vermont made an advance, with the 
Ninth New Hampshire, Sixth New Hampshire, and 
Seventh Rhode Island acting as support. Upon the 
advance getting a sharp volley it wavered, and General 
Griffin ordered in the support, which advanced on the 
run, carrying the works in our front and capturing over 
four hundred prisoners and four pieces of artillery. The 
Seventh Rhode Island were going to claim the whole of 
the guns, but one of them being in my immediate front,. 
I seated one of my men, William Calder, on it and told 
him to ride up to head-quarters, which he did ; and so 
the Ninth New Hampshire got credit with the others. 

XXXI 



CHAPTER XIV. 
The Battle of the Crater. 

The time fixed for the springing of the mine was halt- 
past three in the morning of July 30, to be followed by 
the opening of all the available artillery along the front 
line, and an assault at the breach which would be made 
in the enemy's defences by the explosion. The attack- 
ing force was to consist of two columns, which, charg- 
ing through the breach, were to sweep the enemy's lines 
on the right and left, while other columns were to make 
for the crest. The Fourth division, under the command 
of General Ferrero, was General Burnside's first choice 
as the storming party, inasmuch as he felt that the occa- 
sion called for his freshest troops, and that the soldierly 
qualities of the colored men, though comparatively un- 
tried, were yet worthy of confidence. To this end, 
therefore, for the three weeks preceding the 30th of 
July, the division was most carefully drilled in the 
details of the work w^hich they w^ere expected to perform. 

At the last moment the colored division was declared 
against by General Meade, who also expressed his 
objection to the " tactical formation " outlined in the plan 
of attack submitted to him by General Burnside at his 
request, declaring " that the only thing to be done was 
to rush for the crest, and take it, immediately after the 
explosion had taken place." Such was the embarrassing 
situation of affairs on the afternoon of the 29th, for the 
mine was to be exploded at an early hour on the follow- 



1864.] THE BA TTLE OF THE CRA TER. 483 

ing morning, and the rejection of the Fourth division 
necessitated the choice of one of the other three to lead 
in the attack. It was not easy to choose between equally 
brave men, and General Burnside finally suggested that 
the division commanders draw lots for the position. The 
lot fell on General Ledlie, who at once set to work to 
reconnoitre the ground and prepare for the attack, and 
before nightfall was ready for the advance. 

The battle order issued by General Meade directed 
General Burnside to " form his troops for assaulting the 
enemy's works at daylight of the 30th, prepare his para- 
pets and abatis for the passage of the columns, and have 
the pioneers equipped for work in opening passages for 
artillery, destroying enemy's abattis, etc., and the in- 
trenching tools distributed for effecting lodgments, etc." 
The mine having been sprung, the assaulting columns 
were to move rapidly upon the breach, seize the crest in 
the rear, and effect a lodgment at this point. Major- 
General Ord, following close behind, was to act as sup- 
port on the right, and Major-General Warren on the 
left, while the other corps commanders were to dispose 
their troops in positions to follow up the assaulting and 
supporting columns. 

It was an exceedingly trying situation in which the 
commander of the Ninth corps had been placed by the 
unexpected action of his superior officer, for his plans 
had been most carefully made, and in a manner, as he 
firmly believed, to ensure a brilliant success ; but Gen- 
eral Burnside was a true soldier, and in the few brief 
hours that yet remained to him did everything in his 
power to forward the execution of General Meade's 
orders. In personal interviews with his own officers he 
specifically detailed to them the formation and move- 



484 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [July, 

ments of the different bodies of troops, and especially 
urged upon them the necessity of prompt and cheerful 
co-operation with each other in performing the duties that 
had devolved upon them. Formal orders, which were 
issued later, were as follows : 

<' I. — The mine will be exploded to-morrow morning, 
at half-past three, by Colonel Pleasants. 

" 2. — General Ledlie will, immediately upon the explo- 
sion of the mine, move his division forward as directed 
by verbal orders, and if possible crown the crest at the 
point known as Cemetery hill, occupying, if possible, 
the cemetery. 

" 3. — General Willcox will move his division forward 
as soon as possible after General Ledlie has passed 
through the first line of the enemy's works, bearing off 
to the left so as to effectually protect the left flank of 
General Ledlie's column, and make a lodgment, if pos- 
sible, on the Jerusalem plank-road, to the left of General 
Ledlie's division. 

" 4. — General Potter will move his division forward to 
the right of General Ledlie's division, as soon as it is 
apparent that he will not interfere with the movements of 
General Willcox's division, and will, as near as possible, 
protect the right flank of General Ledlie from any attack 
on that quarter, and establish a line on the crest of a 
ravine which seems to run from the Cemetery hill nearly 
at right angles to the enemy's main line directly in our 
front. 

" 5. — General Ferrero will move his division immedi- 
ately after General Willcox's, until he reaches our pres- 
ent advanced line, where he will remain until the ground 
in his front is entirely cleared by the other three divi- 
sions, when he will move forward over the same ground 



1864.] THE BA TTLE OF THE CRA TER. 485 

that General Ledlie moved over, will pass through our 
line, and, if possible, move down and occupy the village 
to the right." 

It was an anxious night for the devoted troops that for 
so many weary weeks had faithfully defended the Union 
salient, and their few preparations were hurriedly yet 
•quietly made. General Burnside, too much troubled to 
remain quiescent, repaired to the front line at an early 
hour, and there awaited the coming of the dawn and the 
momentous events it would bring in its train. About an 
hour before the time set for the explosion, Ledlie's divi- 
sion began its formation, and shortly afterwards took up 
its position at the designated place of debouchement. 
How slowly the moments wear away, as the men resting 
on their arms strain their eyes to catch a glimpse of the 
doomed fort through the thick gray of the early morn- 
ing ! All unconscious that their span of life is so nearly 
run, the garrison is wrapped in slumber. Not a sound 
breaks the deep stillness of the night, but so closely have 
the Union forces crept up that they can even discern the 
forms of the sentinels monotonously pacing to and fro. 
It is quarter-past three when the match is applied. A 
stream of fire follows the train of powder, and the result 
is awaited in an almost breathless silence. 

Fifteen — thirty minutes have slipped away, and still 
there is no explosion. Another half-hour goes by — a 
precious half-hour, for the east is already brightening 
and the garrison is gradually bestirring itself. It is evi- 
dent that the fuses have failed to burn and must be 
relighted ; but who will perform so dangerous a task ? 
Two miners from the Forty-eighth Pennsylvania, Lieu- 
tenant Douty and Sergeant Reese, volunteered for the 
w^ork, and boldly entered the gallery. The fire had 



486 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [July, 

gone out about one hundred feet from the entrance, but 
quickly repairing and relighting the fuses the brave fel- 
lows returned safely to their comrades. 

It was more than an hour after the allotted time when 
the explosion finally took place, and the terrible reality 
of the scene far outstripped what the wildest imagination 
had pictured in its boldest flights. The ground heaved 
and rocked from the force of the mighty pressure that 
was gathering beneath it ; an awful, thunderous booming,, 
that broke in upon the stillness of the early morning 
" like the sound of many waters,'' heralded the final 
throes of the volcanic energy imprisoned within ; fire 
and smoke burst through the ever-widening fissures, 
and then, as if the power of the thousands of pounds of 
powder that lay hidden below could no longer be re- 
strained, but must assert itself in one last, grand demon- 
stration of its Titanic strength, a mountainous mass of 
earth, mingled with guns, timbers, human bodies, and 
camp furniture of every description, reared itself high in 
air and fell in widely scattered remnants on all sides. A 
hundred guns from the Union lines thundered in echoing 
response, and an awesome stillness succeeded what must 
have seemed to the suddenlv awakened hosts in the ene- 
my's camp like the fulminations of the day of wrath. 

The clouds of smoke and dust gradually cleared away, 
and the full extent of the havoc that had been wrought 
was displayed to view. The enemy's strongest work, a 
six-gun battery with its garrison of two hundred and fifty 
men, had been completely annihilated, and in its stead 
there gaped an immense crater, some three hundred feet 
long by fifty wide and twenty-five deep, whose sloping 
sides and bottom were thickly overlaid with loose earth 
and the debris of the camp. 



1864.] THE BATTLE OF THE CRATER. 487 

The breach had been made, and now the time for 
action had come ; but the minutes seemed like hours 
before Ledlie's division, with Colonel Marshall's brigade 
in advance, after removing the abattis that had protected 
the Union front, crossed the intervening ground, and 
halted, with fatal indecision, at the edge of the still 
smoking crater. The crest which lay only four hundred 
yards beyond was the vantage-point to be gained and 
held, but the troops, dazed and dispirited by the horrors 
outspread before them, sickened by the cries for help 
and mercy that emanated from the maimed and bleeding 
men lying half-buried in the ruins, pressed down into 
the crater, again halted, and made no further effort to 
advance, though the enemy had not yet recovered from 
the shock of the explosion and the much desired crest 
lay completely at their mercy. The guiding hand that 
might have led them on to a most glorious victory was 
lacking. 

The precious moments sped swiftly by, and the on- 
coming divisions of Potter and Willcox, following closely 
upon the halting force, found their further advance 
checked by the huddled mass at the verge of the crater. 
Griffin's brigade of Potter's division, deploying to the 
right of the crater, surmounted the obstacles presented 
by the intricacies of the enemy's defences, and secured 
about two hundred yards of rifle-pits, advancing beyond 
these nearly half way to the crest ; but by this time the 
enemy had rallied somewhat, and bringing his guns on 
Cemetery hill to bear upon the daring troops, together 
with an enfilading cross-fire from the batteries on either 
side of the crater, compelled them to fall back to the 
fatal chasm. A part of the Second brigade ably sup- 
ported the advance of the First ; while two of the remain- 



488 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [July, 

ing regiments entered the crater, but turned sharply to 
the right and swept down the enemy's line for a consid- 
erable distance, one of them even reaching a point with- 
in twenty-five yards of a battery that raked their lines 
with only too sure an aim, until they were driven back 
by the rain of iron hail before which no man could stand 
and live. 

Willcox, bearing to the left, also gained a line of pits, 
but had so slender a following — the greater part of his 
men having gone into the crater with Ledlie's and be- 
come involved in the prevailing confusion — that further 
progress was impracticable. Nearly an hour of time had 
been consumed in these movements, and General Meade, 
scarcely comprehending the situation of affairs at the 
front from his head-quarters in the rear, yet with grow- 
ing impatience that the crest had not been carried, at six 
o'clock ordered General Burnside to push his "men 
forward at all hazards, white and black," and "not to 
lose time in making formations, but rush for the crest." 
This direct order was at once transmitted to General 
Potter, who pressed his division forward and attempted 
to gain the crest : a sheer impossibility in the face of the 
raking fire that was turned upon them from the batteries. 

It was now seven o'clock. The space between the 
crater and the Union lines, as well as the crater itself, 
was crowded with men ; to send more men in could only 
render the confusion more hopeless and magnify the dis- 
aster : but General Meade's order was imperative, and 
the Fourth division advanced gallantlv to the attack. No 
troops could have been better led to an assault, and they 
won the chief honor of the day, capturing a number of 
prisoners and a stand of colors, as well as regaining a 
standof National colors lost in one of the previous assaults. 



1864.] THE BATTLE OF THE CRATER. 489 

The sight of the colored troops seemed to intensify the 
enemy's rage against their assailants, and every available 
weapon was turned upon them. All their endeavors and 
sacrifices were of no avail before so destructive a fire, and 
they too gave way and sought shelter in the crater. 

One — two hours went by, while the enemy's shells and 
balls rained into the crater like hail, turning it into an 
arena of unresisted slaughter. Any further attempt to 
take the ridge would be not only useless, but an uncalled 
for sacrifice of human lives, and General Meade accord- 
ingly ordered a suspension of offensive operations and a 
withdrawal of the troops to their own lines. But the Con- 
federate batteries were not only directed against the 
hapless victims in the fatal death-trap, but they swept the 
ground betw^een the chasm and the Union line as well, 
and the men could no more retreat than advance. The 
enemy, growing bolder, attempted an assault, but were 
driven back with considerable loss by men whose very 
desperation lent them courage to repel the invaders. The 
forenoon wore slowly away, there seemed to be no hope of 
assistance from without, and the men began to lose heart. 
Early in the afternoon the enemy appeared in greater 
force for a second attack, under cover of which Generals 
Hartranft and Griffin of the Second division, though hotly 
pressed, succeeded in withdrawing a considerable body 
of troops. By degrees the crater was finally evacuated, 
and at two o'clock the bloody butchery of that never to 
be forgotten day had ceased. The total loss in killed, 
wounded, and prisoners during the day was in the vicinity 
of four thousand, of which the Ninth corps could claim 
by far the greater part, having in killed fifty-two officers 
and three hundred and seventy-six men ; in wounded, 
one hundred and five officers and one thousand five hun- 



490 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [July, 

dred and fifty-six men ; in missing, eighty-seven officers 
and one thousand six hundred and fifty-two men, most of 
these having been captured at the time of the withdrawal 
of the troops in the afternoon. The phin so carefully 
devised had been set at naught, and the blood of thousands 
cried out from that ground of defeat and disaster. 



HOW THE NINTH KEPT UP ITS REPUTATION. 

What with recruits and convalescents, the regiment 
was able to muster about two hundred muskets for the 
famous Mine fight, in which it bore a prominent part. 
Its position was in the first line of the division, immediately 
in front of the fort, when the troops were massed for the 
charge. At the instant of the explosion they sprang for- 
ward, and under cover of the smoke and dust were the 
first regiment to plant their colors on the ruined works. 
They pushed forward as far as ordered, and as far as any 
of the troops went, and captured fully their share of the 
prisoners taken. In the fierce conflict that ensued for the 
possession of what had been gained, they performed their 
part well, and many were the individual deeds of valor 
that have since enriched the traditions of the regiment. 



AS TOLD IN SERGEANT BURNHAM'S DIARY. 

" The 30th of July was very warm. At three o'clock 
that morning we were sent to the front, taking only our 
arms and our canteens. Our brigade was massed in the 
ravine just behind our front line of rifle-pits, and not very 
far from the entrance to the mine. The fuse for firing 
this mine was lighted at daybreak ; on first trial went 
out ; was relighted, and at about five o'clock the explosion 
came. It was terrific. The ground where we stood 



1864.] THE BATTLE OF THE CRATER. 49I 

moved sensibly^ and a column of earth and debris shot up 
from the fort fully two hundred feet in the air, carrying 
some of the guns of the fort and numbers of the garrison 
with it, and engulfing everything about it as it fell back. 
The noise was a dull, heavy roar, and was immediately 
followed by the thunder of a hundred cannon, as the ex- 
plosion was the signal for all our artillery to open fire. 

"We immediately advanced, leaped our works, and 
charged the fort. I am confident that the colors of our 
regiment were the first inside of it, or the wreck where it 
had been. Our men were quickly in possession of the 
works for some little distance in either direction from the 
point of explosion, and captured some four or five hundred 
prisoners, who were hurried to the rear. Some hundreds 
of the rebels must have been killed by the explosion, and 
some of those we captured had been hurt b}^ it. One 
surrendered to me personally who had been hit in the leg 
by a chunk of earth as it fell. We pulled one fellow out 
of the loose earth whose head and hands were alone 
visible. He had sailed skyward with the materials of the 
fort, and was nearly buried as they fell. His hair liter- 
ally stood on end, and he was the most complete picture 
of fright I ever saw. 

"For a short time we had things our own way, but 
the enemy soon got over their confusion, and began to 
stand their ground, re-enforcements arriving faster on 
their side than on ours. After a little, all attempts on 
our part to advance farther, ceased, and they com- 
menced a series of determined charges to drive us out of 
the works we had taken. The fight raged with great 
fury all the forenoon, and at times was hand to hand. It 
was the hottest work we have ever seen. I think I must 
have fired more than one hundred rounds of ammunition 



492 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [July, 

myself, for I used two or three different rifles, and when 
one got foul threw it down and picked up another. 
Never have experienced in action so little fear, or 
exposed myself so recklessly, but I escaped without a 
scratch. Men fell by my side in repeated instances, and 
how any of us escaped seems to me a miracle. 

" By about noon all of our men who had not pre- 
viously retired to our line, or been disabled, were driven 
into and immediately about the crater made by the explo- 
sion of the mine. All company and regimental organi- 
zation had been lost. It was practically every man for 
himself. The enemy was sweeping the ground over 
which we must pass to escape, with a terrible fire of 
both artillery and musketry. In this crater, which was 
one hundred feet or more in diameter, was the most 
sheltered place to be found. I reached it not far from 
noon. Met Lieutenant Sampson there, and talked with 
him for a minute or two. We could see none of our own 
company, and ver^^ few of our regiment, about us. He 
told me we w^ere at liberty to go back to our lines when- 
ever we felt like running the gauntlet, which we could 
see w^as a terrible one. As I afterwards learned, he 
attempted it not long after this, and was killed. 

"On the side of the crater towards our lines, I 
observed a huge lump of the clayey surface soil thrown 
out by the explosion. It was apparently eight or ten 
feet in diameter. I thought I could get shelter behind it, 
and have opportunity for a few parting shots at the 
enemy. I told Sampson of my purpose, and scrambled 
quickly to what I believed to be the unexposed side of 
the clay lump. Almost at once rifle balls began to 
strike about me, and I discovered that I had jumped ' out 
of the frying-pan into the fire.' I was in full view of the 



1864.] THE BATTLE OF THE CRATER. 493 

enemy, both to the right and the left. They had at once 
observed me, and were paying me their compliments. 

"Just then a broadside from their batteries swept over 
and around, raising a great cloud of dust. I saw my 
opportunity, and plunging into this dust, I was half-way 
across the open space between me and our old rifle-pits 
before the dust cleared so that I could be seen. The 
Minies sung about my ears like bees for the rest of the 
way, but I reached shelter untouched, though so thor- 
oughly exhausted from hard work, the heat, the lack of 
food, and for the last hour or two of water even, that it 
was some time before I could so much as crawl back to 
the creek in the ravine near by and get some water. 
This, when secured, revived me so that I made my 
way back to our camp. A few of the boys were there 
before me, and a few came afterwards, but great num- 
bers are missing. The rebels recovered all their lost 
ground within an hour or two after I escaped, capturing 
the few of our men still left. A sad day for our corps. 
The old story again — a big slaughter, and nothing 
gained." 



A LETTER TO MAJOR CHANDLER. 

(Adjutant Brown . ) 

Before Petersburg, August 7, 1864. 
I should have written you since the battle, had I not 
been so very busy. An unusual number of reports has 
been called for, and you know the sergeant-major [F. H. 
Foster], upon whom I relied very much, is among the 
missing. I am getting to feel rather blue that the Ninth 
is so much reduced, and I might almost say demoralized. 
I mean, in consequence of this kind of life, a lack of offi- 



494 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [July, 

cers, etc., the men have become slack in duty, and the 
•discipline is poor. The officers and men have become 
so hardened to duty in the trenches that it requires the 
utmost vigilance on the part of the officers who are still 
anxious to have the regiment do its duty well. With no 
punishments for neglect of duty, no reprimands from 
any source that is felt, nearly all are doing about as 
they choose. Not that the regiment is gaining any bad 
reputation outside. 

The captain [Hough] is dead. [A report which was 
happily disproved later on.] He did well in battle, — 
brave and cheerful. He was rather rash on the 30th 
ultimo, but was not so when he lost his life. At one 
time he jumped upon the parapet of the fort, waving 
the colors to stop the negroes from firing into us. He 
very much exposed himself, and upon being remon- 
strated with, said there was no bullet for him that day. 
Only a few minutes after, he was shot through the neck. 
I have written to his wife. All the officers, without any 
exception, conducted themselves with marked bravery. 

The Boston 'Journal, August 4, has a letter from John 
Edwin [Mason]. Lieutenant Sampson, at first reported 
missing, was found dead when the flag of truce went out. 
His remains were sent home. Your remarks about our 
treatment of the friends of deceased officers I appreciate. 
I presume we have been more neglectful than we think 
for. It has, however, been next to impossible to do 
much toward sending home their effects. We are very 
remote from all communications, so that it is ditlicult to 
-do anything. I will see that all is done that can be. 

Am glad to learn that Colonel Babbitt has started for 
the regiment. Hope he will not get detained in Wash- 
ington. Lieutenant-Colonel Pleasants, Forty-eighth 



1 864] THE BATTLE OF THE CRATER. 495 

Pennsylvania, is commanding the brigade, his regi- 
ment being temporarily assigned to this brigade. Most 
of the Thirty-first and Thirty-second Maine were cap- 
tured. No regiment but ours brought off both stands of 
colors complete. Lieutenant Harlow brought off the 
National colors. Sergeant Parsons, Company D, was 
shot, and died during the day. I have Sergeant Hart- 
well, Company I, acting as sergeant-major. Lieutenant 
Wilcox, you know, is a prisoner. Lieutenant Donovan 
is commanding Company I ; Lieutenant Babb, Com- 
pany G. Lieutenant Robinson has just returned in 
good health. Have heard from Captain Hutchinson at 
Annapolis ; is gaining, and hopes to be with us soon. 
You may see General Griffin — he has gone home. Your 
surgeon's certificate has been received. 



SERGEANT BUTTON'S STATEMENT. 

"The Ninth New Hampshire had received orders about 
dark to be ready to move at a moment's notice ; to leave 
knapsacks, haversacks, and everything but canteens, 
which were to be filled with water and kept filled until 
the moment of departure. We knew that meant bloody 
work. We lay on our arms until about midnight, when 
we were taken out the usual way to the front, and were 
brought into position about two rods to the rear of the 
line of intrenchments. There we waited. The fuse 
was lighted at three o'clock in the morning on the 30th 
of July. No explosion following in reasonable time, 
two men of the Forty-eighth Pennsylvania volunteered to 
go into the mine and see what the matter was. They 
found that the fuse had gone out, and relighting it, came 
back. While this was going on at the front. General 



496 NINTH NE W HAMPSHIRE. [July, 

Griffin was called back to head-quarters for consultation 
with Generals Grant and Burnside. 

"About five o'clock — two hours after time — the mine 
exploded and the fort was blown up. The moment that 
it went up one hundred pieces of artillery, which were 
opened in the rear, were unheard by me, so great was 
the force of the explosion. Immediately Captain Hough, 
who was commanding the regiment, cried ' Forward !' 
We sprang to our feet and went forward, over our in- 
trenchments. The first object that met my eyes as I 
jumped over our fortifications was a rebel, stretched out 
at full length, having been blown a hundred and fifty 
yards. We passed on, up to the lines, and Sergeant 
Parsons, who was carrying the National colors, was shot 
through the thighs. He was carried to the rear, and 
died about four o'clock that afternoon. 

"When I went to the crater and looked into it, there 
were not more than a half dozen men of our troops 
ahead of our regiment, and I am very sure that the 
colors which we carried were the first in the crater 
proper that morning, but whether they were the first to 
the right or left on the line of the crater, I do not know. 
There were a number of rebels in the crater, sticking out 
of the ground in every imaginable shape ; some with heels 
in the air, and buried head downward, and others who 
were buried feet downward. One old man had been 
planted about up to his middle, and cried out lustily for 
me not to kill him, but to dig him out and take him to 
the rear. 

"We passed down through the crater, up the other 
side, and into a wide traverse made for taking ar- 
tillery in and out of the fort. There we remained. 
Sergeant Simons of Company A was one of the first 




Capt. Andrew J. Hough, Co. I. 



1864.] THE BATTLE OF THE CRATER. 497 

men to enter the crater. He passed on ahead of his 
men in his enthusiasm, got beyond their reach, and into 
the hands of the enemy, who demanded his surrender. 
He drew his rifle to his shoulder and shot a man, and 
was then knocked down by the butt of a rifle in the 
• hands of a Johnny. The man placed his foot on 
Simons's breast and was going to run him through with 
his bayonet, when Simons sung out, ' Hold on there, I 
surrender!' A sergeant was standing close by them, 
and he said to the man, ' If he surrenders, do n't kill 
him, but take him prisoner.' 

"About that time the firing began to be ver}' severe all 
around them, and they all got into a dug-out or bomb- 
proof to escape the bullets that poured in from all sides. 
There were three or four of the rebels in there with 
Simons, but he was as cool-headed as ever, and after a 
little said to them, in the course of conversation, ' Gen- 
eral Grant is coming with 50,000 men, and Petersburg 
is going to be taken. Now I '11 tell you what I '11 do : If 
he does n't get in, you can take me safely to your rear ; 
if he does get in, I '11 take you safely to our rear.' They 
all agreed that this proposition was a fair one, and it 
was n't long before Simons spied some of our men com- 
ing towards the bomb-proof. Quick as a flash he sung 
out, ' Now is your time, boys ; just drop your guns and 
come with me !' We took them out, and passed them 
down through the lines and up to head-quarters, where 
Simons turned over his prisoners. He himself was 
obliged to go to the hospital, on account of the wounds 
he had received; but he got a furlough, came back in 
the fall, and secured his promotion. 

"There we continued as long as we remained in the 
fort. The traverse was well filled with men, and the 

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498 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [July, 

rebels, recovering from their surprise, made two or three 
charges upon us. It was about this time that the bri- 
gade received orders from General Griffin to proceed to 
take Cemetery hill immediately, and while we were 
arranging our regiment, which had been completely 
broken up by the charge and the situation of the ground, 
the colored troops, which had just been ordered in, came 
up and charged right onto us, and waving their flags, 
cried out to us to surrender, and then began firing down 
at us. 

" We made ourselves known as soon as we could, and 
then they ceased firing, crowding into a rifle-pit right 
over in front of this traverse. They had their bayonets 
fixed, and guns loaded but uncapped, when the rebels 
made a charge on them, and, being exposed to the 
extent of half of their bodies where they were then 
standing, to escape the rebel fire they jumped over onto 
us. If you can imagine a mass of worms crawling over 
each other, you will have a very good idea of the condi- 
tion of things in that traverse. 

"The men were bayoneted, crushed, and trampled, 
and at the same time the rebels came up at the head 
of the traverse and commenced to pour a fire down in 
upon us. I jumped onto the top of the ground at the side 
of the traverse, and ran along with my colors, and finally 
made my way into the crater, which was packed full 
with men from difierent regiments, for all organization 
had been lost, and man}'^ indeed were too badly wounded 
to get out, even had there been an opportunity. 

" By this time the rebels had got a dog or small mortar 
battery into play, and were planking the shells into the 
crater with fearful precision and efiectiveness. I went 
down into the bottom of the crater, and there I found a 



1 864-] THE BATTLE OF THE CRATER. 499 

lieutenant (Isaac Leonard Harlow, of Company H, I 
think), who had the other stand of National colors. 
After a while we managed to get back to the edge, and 
then we lay for some time behind a large clump of earth 
and debris, which afforded us considerable protection, 
and there debated the question whether we should remain 
where we then were, and be taken prisoners, or run the 
gauntlet to our lines. It was a pretty serious question, 
as to which horn of the dilemna might prove to be the 
sharper ; but we finally decided to take our chances 
running. Having made our plans, we waited until we 
saw what looked to be a favorable opportunity, and then 
started, in company with several others. We reached 
our lines in safety, though just as I passed over our 
breastworks a bullet struck the flag, passing through the 
tassel." 



WHY THE NINTH WAS THE FIRST REGIMENT TO FJ^OAT 
ITS COLORS OVER THE CRATER. 

By Sergt. George L. Wakefield. 

In his testimony given at the court of inquiry on the 
conduct of the war, held after the fiasco at the Mine, 
General Burnside stated that the detail from the Eight- 
eenth corps which was to have relieved the regiments 
(of which the Ninth New Hampshire was one) on guard 
in the forts the night before the battle, had lost their way 
and did not arrive in season. The Ninth, therefore, to- 
gether with the Seventeenth Vermont and some others, 
was on the frontline at the time of the explosion, and was 
at once ordered forward, leading the charge directly into 
the crater. Though the men were almost suflbcated by 
the clouds of smoke and dust, they were the first to float 



500 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [July, 

their colors over the ruins that marked the spot where 
the rebel fort had stood only a moment before. 

I had been doing duty as sergeant of the guard the day 
before the battle, and that night we were ordered to the 
front to act as skirmishers. If relieved, we were to 
return to our regiments ; if not, we were to advance when 
the time for action came. No relief came, and as soon as 
the explosion took place, the guard, with Lieutenant 
Drew's pioneers, rushed forward through the smoke and 
dust into the crater. We pushed around the right side, 
to one of the Johnnies' traverses or pits, seeing nothing 
of the enemy save where they were lying half buried in 
the dirt and debris of the ruins. 

Advancing down the pit back of their breastworks, we 
found a large body of the rebels huddled together, only 
partially dressed and scarcely comprehending even then 
what had happened, and taking them prisoners, hurried 
them over their works and back into our lines. Our old 
picket line was occupied by the troops from the Eight- 
eenth corps, and as the prisoners advanced towards our 
lines, they, not understanding the situation of affairs, 
fired into them. 

I jumped onto the works and tried to make them see 
their mistake, but it was of no use. They were simply 
wild with excitement, and kept on firing until our pris- 
oners were fairly forced back into their own works, 
carrying us with them in one confused mass. Then the 
tables were turned, for recovering what arms they could 
they rushed upon us with clubbed muskets or any other 
available weapon. 

Dr. Moulton, of Francestown, then a member of Com- 
pany G, was struck on the head and knocked down, and 
his assailant was in turn laid low by Roscoe Kidder, of 



1864.] THE BATTLE OF THE CRATER. 5OI 

Company F, and another comrade whose name I cannot 
recall. Then we three dragged the doctor out a few 
steps, and standing over his prostrate form fired our 
guns — for the first time that morning — squarely in the 
faces of the enraged rebels. Our action was so wholly 
unexpected and so effective that it brought them to a 
standstill for a moment, and before they had recovered 
from their surprise we got the doctor back out of their 
reach. He soon recovered consciousness, and came out 
of that battle only to get killed on the 30th of September. 

Captain Hough was right in the thick of the fight. I 
saw him when he was shot down, and supposed he was 
dead, for he had received a terrible wound; but, thank 
God, Captain Jack still lives ! A little later I ran the 
gauntlet between the lines for a fresh supply of cart- 
ridges. My clothes were literally covered with bloody 
debris, and called forth many comments from the troops 
in the rear, but I quickly secured my cartridges and 
returned to the crater. 

No pen can ever do justice to the dreadful scenes of 
that fearful and bloody holocaust — where the Minies 
were falling like hail, shot and shell were coming thick 
and fast, and, to add even more horror, the shells from 
the mortars were dropping in our midst every four or 
five seconds, literally tearing the men to pieces. Dis- 
membered bodies, legs, arms, and heads strewed the 
ground in every direction, and this horrible butchery 
explains why the men's clothes were covered with blood 
and fragments of human flesh and brains to a degree 
never seen in any other battle of the war. Though my 
fortune carried me into the foremost of the fray, I came 
out all right, except that my clothes needed washing and 
mending before being presentable in polite society. 



502 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [July, 

FROM PRIVATE CLEMENTS STANDPOINT. 

" I shall never forget the morning of the 30th of July, 
1864, as we lay behind the little hill just to the rear of 
where we had done picket duty so long. While waiting 
for the explosion two men from each company were 
asked to volunteer to go in advance as soon as the 
explosion had occurred, and I was one of the two from 
Company F who did so. As I remember it. Lieutenant 
Drew of Company F was in charge, and we were in the 
ruins of the fort before the dust had settled. Isaac Frye 
and myself were on a small pile of dirt just the other side 
of the fort, and were shooting at a battery in our front. 
We had fired as many as fifty shots when, as Comrade 
Frye turned to take a cartridge from his box, a ball 
struck him in the breast and he fell back into the arms 
of Lieutenant Drew. Just then the dirt flew thick 
around me, which caused me to drop down on my 
knees. 

"About this time the colored troops were brought in. 
They charged right down in front of where I was, and 
when they were near the intrenchments just in front of 
us the rebels gave it to them so hot that they broke and 
came back, jumping and tumbling into the trench where 
we were already as thick as we could stand. They had 
their bayonets fixed, and one of them would have run 
me through if I had not warded off his gun with my 
own. As it was, his bayonet drew the blood in my 
abdomen, and the scar is there now. As soon as the 
negroes came back the rebels charged on us, but as they 
were ordering us to surrender the men back ot us let 
them have it right in their faces and at very short range, 
so that those who were not shot fell back. Just then we 
received the order to charge on them, and as I raised 



,864.] THE BATTLE OF THE CKATER. 5°3 

f „, ,n fro I received a shot just above the knee. 
?L t ughfof e e, prisons, and how n,y oldest brother 
Id b':: starved to death, nerved me to take tny chances 

'"■f. ^r rSt-s the field a buUet passed though 
,„, hat and another cut my shoestring and drew blood 
oTm nstep. I soon got to the field hosp.tal, and som 
L hours after I was wounded the -§-" J^f^^^^^; 
.he ball but could not find tt, and so I wa^ sen 
Mt. Pleasant hospital at Washington, D. C ^.. Brad 

field, a splendid young man, '^^ fff "'."^^ ,t b" , 
where I was placed, and he too faded to find the 
r^after I had been there about two -U when 
was able to locate it by the soreness. The doctor cu 
Tout about six inches above where it entered, and found 
::it had shattered the bone. I ^-^l^\^^^^'XZ^l 
the time, and my leg troubles me to thts day and causes 

":::::h:tll ::i extracted I began to improve .rd 
was granted a furiough of thirty days, after wh.ch I 
ZJZ to the hospital at Washington -d - soon s t 
to the hospital which' had been established at Manches 
tr N H I was there some four weeks, and then wa 
ent t Galloupe-s island, in Boston harbor, about nme 
mUes from the city, and stayed there seven weeks waU- 
miles uom , e i Thevp were many like 

ing transportation to the front. The.e were J 
n,vself who were waiting for transportation and there 
wa great number of recruits. Hardly a night passed 
Ttsom' one was robbed or garrotted, so it was not safe 
r;o out after dark; and as ^2:^^^^^! 

point, and I was glad when I left the place. 



504 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [July, 

" I shall never forget the first night on the boat, which 
was an old government transport, the De Molay. It 
brought a load of rebel prisoners to Fort Warren, and 
we were put down in the hold so thick that I could not 
lie down at all, and had to sit or lean against another 
man all the time. Such a night as that was ! The 
greater part of the men were sick, or crazy with whis- 
key, and were fighting all night long, but the next 
morning when we went on deck to get coffee I managed 
to crawl in behind the smoke-stack where it was warm, 
and there I stayed until we arrived at Cit}' Point, Va. 
Although suffering from cold and hunger during the 
remaining two days and nights that we spent on the 
boat, I made up my mind that I would never go below 
again so long as the guard let me alone, but it was a 
relief when we were at last allowed to go ashore. 

" From City Point I went in the cars to near Peters- 
burg, where I joined my company once more ; but as I 
was some lame I was detailed for special duty, and was 
sent to Alexandria to guard the officers' baggage. This 
was a short time before the rebels evacuated Petersburg. 
Still being unable to do full duty, I was detailed as 
orderly for the adjutant, and carried the mail until I was 
discharged, June 10, 1865." 



PRIVATE BARNES OF COMPANY B. 

" It was about half-past two or three in the morning 
when we were ordered out in front of the works, and at 
a quarter to five the first thing I knew I was over in the 
rebel works along with the rest of the men. It seems 
that when the explosion came we went for the rebel line, 
under cover of the dust and smoke, and as soon as we 



1864.] THE BATTLE OF THE CRATER. 505 

got there began taking prisoners. Some of those that 
we captured said that there were a lot of men who had 
been caught in the falling debris and could not get out, 
and wanted us to help them ; so we set to work, and dug 
with bayonets or anything else that we could get hold of. 
We took out some rebels that were alive, and one of 
them was a young man whose hair had been dark before 
the explosion, but when we took him out it had turned 
white from fright. 

" There were seven men in the first lot that we dug 
out, and a man from Company A and myself were 
detailed to take them to the rear. We took them back 
to where the big spring was, and then we returned to the 
fort. We got there just as the colored troops broke and 
came back on our men — and the next moment the rebels 
were on us — and I heard one of them say, ' Give the black 
devils a dose, and then take the bayonet to the rebels ! ^ 
meaning us, I suppose. We were in the ditch between 
the two fires, but we gave it to the rebels with muskets 
and bayonets both. That was when I got the crack 
with a musket on my head, and found myself three days 
later in the hospital, but I never knew how I got there. "^ 



A STORY WITH A SEQUEL. 

The story is outlined in the following extracts from let- 
ters written by Sergt. James W. Lathe to his wife on the 
day after the battle and during the ensuing month : 

"I commanded my own company [F] yesterday, and 
killed five rebels, including an officer, before I was hit; 
so I am square with them anyway. I have lost part of 
my right hand. The two middle fingers are out nearly 



5o6 NIiYTII NEW HAMPSHIRE. [July, 

up to the wrist, and my little finger close up on the first 
joint. It was my twelfth and last battle, and we fought 
with bayonets and knocked down with muskets in the 
most cold-blooded manner. I feel that I have done my 
part in this human butchery." 

"The only thing pleasant about this hospital [Mount 
Pleasant] is a lot of little cats, that play around all the 
time, — they are the only pleasant phase of the whole 
concern." 

" I did not expect to get out of my last battle alive. 
When I ordered my men forward I thought of you, and 
that I should never see you again." 

" I shall come out one of these days with the worst- 
looking Paw you ever saw. It will look like a meat 
fork. It was done by a Minie ball, while I was on the 
top of the pile of earth thrown up by the explosion of the 
rebel fort. I had been in the rebel trenches all the fore- 
noon, and was going out into the crater when I was hit. 
The fellow that hit me was close behind, not more than 
a rod or two. If I had stayed fifteen minutes longer I 
should have been a prisoner." 

Sergeant Lathe has an order signed by Captain I. T. 
Case, recommending him for promotion on account of 
marked bravery, and Captain Cooper, who was an eye- 
witness to the scene, says that he saw Sergeant Lathe 
shoot five men in as many minutes ; but the sergeant 
modestly adds, " I saw Henry Ford kill more of them 
than I did, and none of them were farther from us than 
across a common room, and some not so far." The 
story and its sequel of to-day are given in the sergeant's 
own w^ords. 



1864.] THE BATTLE OF THE CRATER. 507 

THE STORY. 

" The officer that I shot was standing on the top of the 
bank, which brought his feet some higher than my head. 
He was not more than five or six yards from me, and as 
I was looking him square in the face when I fired, I 
could not help seeing the effect of the shot, which struck 
him in the right breast, killing him instantly. I thought 
at the time that he was a general officer, as he wore a 
general officer's sword and belt, but the others that I 
shot were men who were trying to hit me. Finally they 
got one in on me, and I ran back into the crater. Lieu- 
tenant John Sampson tied a handkerchief around my 
arm, which partially stopped the bleeding, and I then 
ran up on top of the bank of the crater toward our lines. 

"A shower of bullets fell around me as soon as I got 
up where the rebels could see me, but I made my way 
down below the bank, where I found I was safe so long 
as I kept out of sight. After a little time I started out 
again, and went as fast as I could considering that the 
ground was covered with dead and wounded men. 
When I came to our old breastworks, which were not 
very high, I cleared them at one leap, and landed 
astride the back of a Dutchman who was sitting in the 
trench, but as I didn't understand German, nor he Eng- 
lish, I have never been quite certain whether my explana- 
tion of the circumstances was satisfactory to him or not. 

" I was safe, however, and after looking myself over 
for more bullet-holes, — for when I was on top of the 
bank the air was as full of bullets as if a swarm of bees 
were buzzing about my ears — I considered myself lucky 
to get off" with four bullet-holes in different parts of my 
clothing besides the shot through my hand. 



508 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [July, 

"Then I made my way back to the field hospital, 
which nearly covered a field of I should say about fifty 
acres, where the surgeons were busily at work caring for 
the wounded, who were stretched out on the ground, on 
rudely constructed benches, on old tables, or anything 
that could be extemporized for an operating table. I 
walked around there all the at"ternoon, and saw men who 
were wounded in every conceivable way, from cannon 
and shell wounds, and burns from exploding shells, with 
bowels torn out and bodies gashed and mangled from 
bayonet thrusts, or with heads and faces smashed almost 
beyond recognition by blows from a musket-breech, 
though by far the greater part of the wounds were made 
by the deadly Minie balls that were poured in on us 
while we were penned up in the crater. The ambu- 
lances kept coming onto the field loaded up with men, 
and some of them would be dead when they were taken 
out, but altogether there must have been several thousand 
of the wounded there in that field. 

"I asked almost every surgeon I came to if he 
would n't dress my hand next, and the invariable answer 
was ' No ; there are lots of men here that will die if not 
attended to to-day, and you won't ! That was pretty 
cold comfort, though true enough ; but I finally got it 
dressed by an old white-headed surgeon, who belonged 
to the Thirty-second Maine I believe, and I have since 
been told that it was a wonderful piece of surgery, 
though I barely escaped death by lockjaw at the time 
and have suffered very much pain ever since. 

"Just at night my brother came over to the field in search 
of me, and he told me that himself and four others were 
all that there was left of the twenty-three men I had 
commanded in the battle — ten of the number were there 



1864.] THE BATTLE OF THE CRATER. 509 

in the hospital with me, and all were suffering from gun- 
shot wounds. It was getting dark by this time, but my 
brother happened to get sight of my clothes. He took 
one look, and that was enough. ' For heaven's sake, 
Jim,' said he, 'take off those clothes and let me wash 
them, for they fairly make me sick !' I hadn't thought 
of them before, but they were soaked with blood from 
my own wound and covered with scraps of flesh, brains, 
and everything else that could fly from men that had 
been torn to pieces by shot and shell. He gave me his 
clothes to wear while he could wash and dry mine, and 
by making a clothes-pole of himself before the camp-fire 
that night, had them ready for me to put on before he 
went back to the company in the morning. 

"My brother served until Lee surrendered at Appo- 
mattox, in the spring of 1865, but I never went back. I 
was recommended for promotion for marked bravery, 
but spent the next five months in the Mount Pleasant 
hospital at Washington, and was discharged December 
16, 1864, having served about two and a half years and 
participated in more than a dozen battles." 

THE SEQUEL. 

"In September, 1893, more than twenty-nine years 
after the Battle of the Mine, I visited Petersburg, and 
went over to the crater in company with two Confederates 
who had fought in that battle and the man who owned 
the place. We looked over the ground, which of course 
was very much changed, though the crater was untouched 
save by storms and time. We looked over and talked 
over about everything we could think of, and the owner 
of the land said there had not been a man there since the 
war closed that had located and described things as well 



5 I O NINTH NE W HAMPSHIRE. [July, 

as I had done, and asked me how it was that I could 
remember so well. I told him I did not know how I 
could ever forget it. 

" When we came to one particular place in the works 
I turned to the Confederate veterans and said, "Can 
either of you tell me the name of a Confederate officer 
that fell from the bank exactly there, shot through the 
right breast?' ' Yes,' said one of them ; ' I can tell you 
who it was.' ' Well,' said I, ' I happened to know where 
the bullet hit him, for I was looking right at the spot.' 
' You are the very man who killed my chum ! ' exclaimed 
the veteran. 'If you hadn't done it you would n't have 
known anything about it.' 

"My son was there with me, and heard all that was 
said, and I think I can safely say that mine was an 
experience that few men who visit the old battle-fields 
of the war could or would wish to duplicate. I make no 
claim to having killed a man until I was cornered in that 
infernal den, where I had no hope of getting out alive ; 
then I did as I saw some others do — worked for all I was 
worth, and when I could do no more ran the gauntlet of 
a whole brigade, whose every man seemed anxious to 
hit me. This was our worst battle, but Spotts3dvania 
and some others were nearly as bad, and looking back 
now it seems like a horrible dream, which none but those 
that were in it can ever fullv realize." 



HONOR THE BRAVE AND TRUE. 

Captain Hough, who commanded the regiment in this 
battle, after fighting bravely nearly all the forenoon was 
at last frightfully wounded, and left for dead by his 
friends. The enemy thought him so nearly so that it 




Lieut. David F. Cheney, Co. C. 



1 864.] THE BATTLE OF THE CRATER. 51I 

was not worth while to carry him from the field, and 
actually dug his grave. But finding at the expira- 
tion of a day or two that he was still alive, they carried 
him to the city, from whence later in the fall he was 
released by exchange, and ultimately recovered from 
his wounds, though unfit for further service. 

When at last the troops were ordered to retire, each 
man for himself as best he could, but few, if any, of the 
Ninth that were not disabled remained to be captured, 
choosing rather to encounter the terrific storm of fire 
from thousands of muskets and a dozen batteries, that 
from three sides swept over this miniature hell and the 
open space between it and the Union lines, cutting down 
nearly one in every three that tried to escape. 

Lieutenant Sampson, a brave and efficient officer, lost 
his life in this way. Lieutenants Green and Cheney 
were wounded during the day, and Lieutenant Drew 
was captured. Besides these, and Captain Hough al- 
ready mentioned, the regiment lost in killed, wounded, 
and missing, ninety-two, or about half of the whole 
number engaged. Some ten or twelve of these are 
known to have been killed, and of the remainder nearly 
all were wounded, but many of them left in the enemy's 
hands. 

The colors were gloriously borne, and in the thick of 
the fight, despite the defeat and disaster of that fatal day. 
Sergeant Dutton, who carried the State colors, escaped 
unharmed, but the National colors fell three times, — first 
from the hands of Corporal Parsons of Company D, who 
had taken them at Spottsylvania when Sergeant Pren- 
dable was wounded, and bravely and proudly borne 
them since. One of the guard immediately seized them, 
but was struck down only a few minutes later. Another 



512 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [July, 

of the guard shared the same fate, and the colors were 
then taken by Lieutenant Harlow, who brought them 
off the held in safety. 

Sergt. Leander A. Wilkins of Company H recaptured 
the flag of the Twenty-first Massachusetts regiment, and 
brought it off the field, for which gallant deed he after- 
■^vards was awarded a medal of honor by the war de- 
partment. 

In some respects the Battle of the Mine was the most 
horrible and bloody of any in which the Ninth New 
Hampshire was engaged during the war, but the heroic 
conduct of that little band of veterans in that fierce con- 
test with a bitter and determined foe, the price of whose 
valor was the loss of nearly fifty per cent, of its total 
strength, is deserving of the highest praise. 



CHAPTER XV. 

Shifting Scenes and Varying Fortunes. 

It is only after the battle — after both armies have aban- 
doned the contested ijround — that the full horror of a 
struggle where thousands of men have been engaged can 
be fully realized. Everywhere along the front are dead 
and wounded men, dead and wounded horses, dismounted 
guns, and scattered sabres, swords, muskets, and accou- 
trements. There are dead men among the ripening 
wheat, in the clover over which the honey-bees are hov- 
ering, in the shadows of the peach trees. 

Here is the field where the hospital corps are caring 
for the wounded who were brought, or dragged their 
halting footsteps, from the scene of disaster before the 
final retreat left the enemy in possession. Blood drips 
from their wounds as they are lifted from the ambulances 
and laid upon the grassy sod : there is blood on the rocks 
and bushes — blood everywhere, save in the heavens 
above, where God's own blue still overspreads a sufl'er- 
ing, sorrowing world. But between the lines the dead 
and wounded still lie on the field, where the scorching 
rays of the July sun beat down upon them and mock 
their helpless misery. 

Late in the afternoon of the 30th a flag of truce was 
hoisted on the Union line, and was duly responded to by 
the enemy. Permission to remove the wounded and bury 
the dead w^as refused, but the Sanitary commission were 

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514 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [August, 

allowed to give each one of the wounded a canteen of 
milk-punch and another of water. Guns were stuck in 
the ground, bayonet down, with pieces of shelter tent 
fastened under the hammers so as to afford some slight 
protection to the hapless victims of a vengeful foe. The 
night wore slowly away, each army keeping a watchful 
eye upon the other's movements ; but during the follow- 
ing day, when the tense muscles had been allowed to 
relax a little, terms were finally agreed upon, and the 
morning of August i was set apart for the humane yet 
mournful duty. 

At an early hour a line of blue and gray sentinels was 
established near the center of the space between the lines, 
and through this grim cordon the dead and wounded 
were brought by the enemy to where friendly hands were 
waiting to receive them. There was but little conversa- 
tion indulged in between the two armies during the time 
devoted to this sad task ; the men sitting in almost utter 
silence upon the breastworks, with no fear of being made 
a target to the unerring rifle of the sharpshooter in so 
awesome a presence. 

The long, shallow trenches have been dug on the hill- 
side, in the shadow of the peach orchard, and tenderly 
and reverently the dead are laid side by side in the all- 
embracing bosom of mother eartli. There is only a brief 
search for identity ; they need no eulogy or prayer : they 
have given their lives for their country. There they 
rest : friends in these trenches, foes in those over there. 
So let them sleep, till the trump of the archangel shall 
wake them ! As for the living — God help them I The 
flag of truce is no longer floating in the breeze : the firing 
has begun, and they are back in the trenches ! 



1864.] SHIFTING SCENES AND VARYING FORTUNES. 515 

At nine o'clock in the evening of the 31st of July the 
Ninth New Hampshire was again doing duty at the front, 
the Second division relieving the troops of the Eighteenth 
corps, who had occupied the trenches the preceding 
twenty-four hours. Every available man had been 
pressed into service, in order to cover the allotted portion 
of the line, and as there was no relief until the evening 
of the 3d of August the days and nights seemed doubly 
tedious in their weary length. The weather continued 
warm, and as it was remarkably quiet along the lines, 
except at a few points where there was an occasional 
sharp fusillade, the men had a fairly good chance to 
sleep, though as a precautionary measure half the force 
were kept awake all night and all of them from three in 
the morning until daylight. But the situation at its best 
was dismal enough to make the stoutest-hearted home- 
sick, and called for all the patience and pluck that the 
men could muster. 

A pleasant episode on the afternoon of the 3d was the 
visit of a Mrs. Morse, from the Sanitary commission, to 
whom the boys were already indebted for many comforts. 
The sight of a kindly woman's face was even more wel- 
come to the homesick soldiers than the good things she 
distributed so freely among them, and when she still far- 
ther proved her courage by borrowing a musket and 
firing three or four shots at the enemy, she was enthu- 
siastically applauded. The boys had made quite a num- 
ber of friends in the commission, and so were often in 
receipt of favors from them. They felt no hesitancy in 
accepting contributions from their supplies, for the hard 
work and exposure to which they had been subjected was 
telling even on the strongest, and comfort and help were 
sorely needed. 



5 1 6 NINTH NE W HAMPSHIRE. [August, 

While off duty on the 5th the regiment attended the 
service for the dead, which was held at brigade head- 
quarters. Officers and men alike seemed to feel the 
solemnity of the occasion, and it could not have well been 
otherwise. Only four commissioned officers and barely 
a hundred men were left : Would any be spared to bear 
to the waiting friends at home the last fond messages of 
the loved and lost? It was with sad hearts that they 
began their tour of duty in the pits that evening. 
' Writing to the home friends on the following day, Ser- 
p-eant Burnham gives a charactei-istic sketch of their sur- 
roundings, and, soldier like, makes the best of the cir- 
cumstances. Dating his letter "In a bomb-proof, near 
Petersburg," he then writes as follows : 

"'In a bomb-proof? Well, into what sort of a hole 
has he tumbled now, I wonder ! ' I can imagine you ex- 
claiming as you commence this, so before going farther 
I will tell you. Into the trenches, where we are obliged 
to spend regularl}^ half our days and nights watching 
Johnny, he oftentimes very unceremoniously and impo- 
litely throws quantities of rotten iron and such like mis- 
siles, which are extremely unpleasant to have flying in 
pieces about your ears. No amount of reasoning, re- 
monstrance, or retaliation availing to make our friends 
in gray desist from these disagreeable practices, the most 
of the officers and a good many of the men have dug 
holes, or small cellars, just in the rear of the rifle-pits, 
covered them with logs and rails, and then shovelled the 
dirt back on top of them. These dens — they are usually 
just about large enough for a medium-sized beast — are 
dubbed ' bomb-proofs,' and into them, when not on duty, 
we crawl and lie in comparative safety, and in some 
measure are also protected from the heat, whicli on some 



1S64.] SHIFTING SCENES AND VARYING FORTUNES. 517 

days is very oppressive. In one of these Lieutenant 
Robinson and myself have established our head-quarters, 
and are as much at our ease as though the enemy were 
miles instead of rods away." 

During the next relief a petition for a regimental fur- 
lough was drawn up, and many a bright picture was con- 
jured up by the camp-fire that night, at the mere thought 
of seeing home and friends once more, and many a poor 
fellow's dreams were tinged with his last waking recol- 
lection. On the 9th several boxes from home — some of 
them sent months before — arrived, and while most of the 
contents were ruined it was some comfort to the bo3^s 
to know that they were still held in remembrance. The 
loth was passed in the trenches, the men suffering tor- 
tures from the fierce heat and the swarms of flies that 
seemed to be determined to devour them. Firing be- 
tween the pickets was yet kept up, but few casualties 
were reported. 

The regiment was paid off" on the 12th, drawing four 
months' wages. Another crumb of comfort was the 
report that Mobile had been attacked and the enemy 
gloriously defeated. That night the Second corps, which 
had previously been detailed for the building of a second 
strong line of works in the rear of the first line, was 
moved off" in the direction of the James river, and on the 
following morning the regiment, instead of entering the 
pits, was detailed for the completion of the works. The 
night of the 14th they were again at the front, but shortly 
after midnight were relieved by troops from the Eight- 
eenth corps and moved back into the woods. Shortly 
after daylight they moved still farther to the rear, and 
relieved a portion of the Fifth corps. 

Although the change in position covered only about 



5l8 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [August, 

two miles of territory, still the men found themselves 
quite difterentl}^ and much more pleasantly situated than 
they had been during the two months they had passed in 
the vicinity of the " Mine." Here the main lines were 
about a thousand yards apart, with lines of pickets and 
videttes, or sentinels, between. The vidette lines were 
so close together that the men could readily converse 
with each other, and there was a mutual understanding 
that there should be no firing unless an advance or attack 
was attempted on either side. 

About one o'clock in the morning of the 17th the quiet 
of the camp was broken by a terrific cannonade, which, 
beginning on the right, gradually extended itself along 
the line. The regiment was ordered behind the breast- 
works, and as no further duty was demanded of them 
they interested themselves in watching the display of fire 
and thunder. Shell were the missiles mostly used, and 
these — their burning fuses leaving a streak of fire to mark 
their track as they hiss through the air — either suddenly 
ended their career in a flash, a sharp report, and a whir- 
ring of fragments in all directions ; or, rising grandly from 
the mortars, described a graceful curve and then plumped 
down, as if hurled from the clouds, upon their victims. 
Indeed, the terror and grandeur of a scene like this — the 
sudden rousing of the camp from its quiet slumber, the 
transition to such sights and sounds as these, the hurry- 
ing of thousands of men to their respective posts or duties, 
the buzz of their excited conversation, the sharp, quick 
tones of command rising distinctly above the tumult of 
all other sounds — is almost beyond the power of pen to 
depict or pencil to portray. 

Almost every night deserters from the Confederate 
army would come into the lines at such points as they 



1864.] SHIFTING SCENES AND VARYING FORTUNES. 519 

could reach without too much danger, and some morn- 
ings, if the night before had been dark or rainy, the 
provost-marshal would have a squad of fifty or more to 
send to the rear. They all told the same story — that 
thousands would come over if they could secure favorable 
opportunities and were sure of good treatment. The lay 
of the land in the vicinity of the Ninth was not very 
favorable for such maneuvres, but one bright little chap, 
about seventeen years old, from the Eleventh Florida, 
slipped past the watchful pickets and reached the Union 
lines in safety. 

On the i8th General Warren advanced on the left and 
took possession of the Weldon railroad, and that night 
there was another artillery duel. On the 19th the enemy 
shelled the position held by the Ninth corps, but the corps 
was relieved about noon and moved immediately to the 
rear. Passing by a circuitous route to the left, the First 
division swung into position just in season to check a furi- 
ous and what would otherwise have been a successful 
attack upon the right of the Fifth corps. The enemy, 
however, was repulsed with considerable loss, and the 
Second division, moving out upon the right of the First, 
which brought them into the near vicinity of the railroad, 
threw out pickets, and passed a quiet but wet and uncom- 
fortable night. 

Early the next morning the troops advanced some way 
into the woods at the front of their position, and tumbled 
about through the brush nearly all the forenoon, skir- 
mishing and reconnoitering ; but nothing was seen or 
heard of the enemy except that Private Frank Thurston, 
of Company E, who had been doing picket duty during 
the night, captured two stragglers from the enemy's line. 
Thurston, who was barely sixteen years old, had enlisted 



520 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [August, 

from Peterborough in the latter part of December, 1863, 
and being a brave, manly little fellow had become very 
popular with his comrades. He heard a rustling in the 
bushes, boldly challenged the intruder, and found that 
it was a couple of Confederate stragglers. He ordered 
them to throw down their arms, and marched his pris- 
oners in triumph to the corporal of the guard. 

One of the prisoners was subsequently speaking about 
the explosion of the mine, and said that he was one of 
the garrison, and that the first he knew of what was 
going on was when he found himself going up. " I 
went up an awful ways," said he, " and when I was 
coming down I met another fellow going up, and I don't 
believe he 's got back yet." Their brave captor deserved 
a better fate than to be enrolled among the missing at 
the Battle of Poplar Grove Church, September 30, 
1864, only six weeks after his gallant exploit. 

A satisfactory line was finally established about noon 
of the 20th, and all the afternoon, though the rain came 
in torrents, the Ninth New Hampshire kept busily at 
work with pick and shovel till the long line of defences 
was finished, thus completing the connection between 
the Fifth corps and the old line of works. Sunday, the 
2ist, was a quiet day for the Ninth corps, though the 
enemy made a vigorous attack on the Fifth, only to be 
as quickly and gallantly repulsed. Towards night the 
regiment was relieved by a part of the Fourth division, 
and moved a mile or so to the rear. Resting here until 
the latter part of the tbllowing afternoon, they were 
then moved to the left of the First brigade of the Second 
division, and were soon plying their familiar trade of 
throwing up breastworks. The intention seemed to be 
to make the line impregnable, and the New Hampshire 



1S64.] SHIFTING SCENES AND VARYING FORTUNES. 52I 

boys were certainly doing their part towards the accom- 
plishment of that object. 

For a few days now the position of the regiment was 
practically unchanged, about one third of the men being 
kept on constant duty. On the 31st the regiment was 
mustered for the months of July and August, and the 
usual forms of inspection were gone through, despite 
the sadly reduced numbers. That day the videttes on 
the railroad were driven in, and fears of an attack were 
entertained for a time, but proved to be groundless. 

The first week in September the regiment was alter- 
nately detailed to assist in building the " corduroy" 
road, which was to serve as a connecting link between 
the extreme left of the Union line of works and the 
army head-quarters at City Point, and the breastworks 
on the right. September 8 the Second brigade moved 
back to its former quarters near the Weldon railroad, the 
Ninth New Hampshire establishing a camp about half 
way between the front and rear lines of works. It was 
the first regular camp away from the line of intrench- 
ments since the commencement of the campaign in 
May, and even though the respite might be but brief the 
boys fitted up comfortable quarters for themselves, in 
order to make the most of the fleeting opportunity. 

In addition to the " corduroy" wagon road a railroad 
track, running from the City Point road through to the 
Six-Mile tavern on the Weldon road, was now rapidly 
approaching completion. The railroad, traversing 
lengthwise the fortified parallelogram in which the army 
proper was enclosed, gave the finishing touch to an 
already strongly defensive position. The regular camp 
routine was at once entered upon, and proved to be a 
welcome relief from the incessant activity of the previous 



522 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [September, 

weeks and months. Ten days slipped by, the pleasant 
monotony of dress parades, inspections, reviews, and 
brigade and battalion drills, broken only by an occa- 
sional tour of picket or fatigue duty. It is only meet 
that the following Circular Order, a merited recognition 
of valorous conduct and hardships heroically endured, 
which was issued during the sta}' at this camp, should 
be given place here. 

Head-Quarters 2d Brig. 2d Div. 9th A. C. 

Near Weldon R. R., Va., Sept. 14, 1864. 
Circular Orders. 

The General Commanding takes this opportunity to express to the 
officers and men of this Brigade his high appreciation of their gallantr\' 
and noble conduct as soldiers, whether displayed at a mere review, on 
the bloody field of battle, or amidst the harassing fatigue of the march. 

Never did troops display higher qualities as soldiers than have those 
of this Command since crossing the Rapidan on the 5th of May last, 
and never did patriots win a nobler record, than those who have 
endured the hardships and braved the perils of this memorable cam- 
paign. 

Every soldier and every officer has a right to feel — as your General 
does — a just pride in his regiment and in his Brigade. 

By Command of Brig. Genl. Griffin, 

Ira G. Wilkins, 

Lieut, and A. A. A. G. 
C. O., 9th N. H. Vols. 

September 20 came the news of Sheridan's glorious 
victory in the Shenandoah valley, and hurrahs for gal- 
lant " Phil " and the old flag woke the echoes of camp 
and forest in every direction. The following day a 
salute in honor of Sheridan's victory was fired by the 
artillery all along the line — a proceeding which the 
enemy could hardly be expected to regard with favor, 
but to which they were nevertheless obliged to submit. 



1864.] SHIFTING SCENES AND VARYING FORTUNES. 523 

Sunday, the 25th, opened with the regular routine. 
Soon after inspection the pay-rolls were received and 
signed, the paymaster settled down to his part of the 
business, and everything was as quiet as a Sunday in 
the country. Orders had been received to equip the 
Ninth New Hampshire with a new style of gun, which 
the authorities desired to test, and the change was about 
to be made when word came to break camp immedi- 
ately, and in less than half an hour the troops were on 
the road towards City Point. The Suffolk railroad was 
reached about dark, and the troops bivouacked tor the 
night. With the coming of the morning orders to move 
were momentarily expected, but it was late in the after- 
noon when the word was finally given to establish a tem- 
porary camp in their present location. 

These rough, and far from pleasant, quarters were 
vacated on the morning of the 28th, and the troops were 
moved back to the ground they had left so hurriedly 
three days before. The camp-ground with all its con- 
veniences had been partially taken possession of by some 
Fifth corps hustlers, but the unwelcome intruders were 
soon dislodged, and before night the old order of things 
again held sway. 

Alas for the mutability of human afiairs ! Shortly 
after midnight orders came to turn out, pack up all sur- 
plus baggage and send it to City Point, and be ready to 
move by four o'clock with four days rations and sixty 
rounds of ammunition. The day wore away, and at 
sunset the regiment was still on the old camp-ground, 
though with everything packed up, muskets stacked, 
and in readiness to move at a moment's notice. 



524 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [September, 

THE NINTH NEW HAMPSHH^E AT POPLAR GROVE 
CHURCH AND THE PEGRAM HOUSE. 

For some days previous to the 30th of September 
preparations had been quietly making for the dealing of 
a heavy blow to the Confederate forces, and on the 
morning of that day the Fifth corps, moving out to the 
left from their own works, succeeded in capturing the 
enemy's outworks at a point near Poplar Grove church. 
The enemy at once retreated, and the Second division of 
the Ninth corps pushed on past the victorious Fifth in 
hot pursuit of the fleeing foe, closely followed by the 
rest of the corps. The Second brigade was in front 
and in column, with the exception of two small regiments 
in line on either flank and a skirmish line in front, the 
Ninth New Hampshire having the head of the column. 

About a mile from the South Side railroad the enemy 
was encountered. The Ninth and three or four other 
regiments were thrown upon the line, and a charge was 
ordered. The men rushed forward with enthusiasm, 
and quickly drove the enemy from the buildings and 
slightly elevated ridges where they had made their 
stand. The enemy's main works were now in plain 
view, and toward these, in close pursuit of the fugitives, the 
troops, flushed and eager, pressed forward. They had 
advanced but a few rods, however, when heav}' lines of 
gray-clad soldiery, thrice the strength of those opposed to 
them, came pouring over the breastworks. Into these 
sharp and destructive volleys were fired, even as tlie men 
fell slowly back to the buildings and fences on the ridge 
they had just passed. Here they stood their ground until 
their rifles flashed almost in the faces of the advancing 
foe. 



1864.] SHIFTING SCENES AND VARYING FORTUNES. 525 

They checked, and would have driven back those in 
their front, but their flanks were soon enveloped by the 
longer line of the enemy. The supporting column was 
too far in the rear to come to their aid, and again, and 
for the last time in the history of the Ninth, it became 
" Legs versus Liberty." Many, however, did not start 
until it was too late, and their retreat was cut off; while 
others were struck down by the bullets of the foe in run- 
ning the gauntlet of their fire, which swept the hundred 
or more rods of open field between the buildings and a 
sheltering forest of pines in the rear. A few re-enforce- 
ments had reached this point, and for a short time the 
now completely disorganized, but not demoralized, reg- 
iments rallied their scattered forces : but their line was 
not yet long enough for that of the enemy, and disputing 
the ground almost inch by inch, they fell slowly back to 
the Pegram house, a half mile farther to the rear. Here 
a stand was once more made, and the advance of the 
enemy checked, the fighting continuing until nightfall. 
What of the Ninth that could be collected was on duty 
at the front during the night. 

The next morning the enemy commenced a furious 
cannonade upon this position, and appeared to be about 
to attack it with a heavy force : the line was too weak 
and extended to be held, and w^as retired to the line cap- 
tured by the Fifth corps the day before, at which point, 
having thrown up additional works, the next twenty-four 
hours w^ere spent in fruitless waiting for an attack. 
Meanwhile a rain-storm had set in, and, wet and weary, 
the sorely shattered remnant of the Ninth, numbering less 
than sixty muskets, passed one of the gloomiest days in 
its three-years record. 

Lieutenants Rice and Emery, the latter of whom was 



526 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [September, 

serving at the time as an aid on General Griffin's staff, 
had been killed ; Lieutenant Allen was wounded and 
Lieutenant Quimby captured, and the killed, wounded, 
and missing from the ranks numbered nearly one hun- 
dred and twenty. And this out of a total of consider- 
ably less than two hundred, nearly half of whom were 
recruits or convalescents who were wholly unfit for 
active duty. Fully one half of the total loss of the regi- 
ment was in killed and wounded, but all the former and 
many of the latter, as well as all of the missing, were in 
the hands of the enemy. 

So was also the State colors. The bearer, Corporal 
Brown, who had bravely taken the National colors when 
they fell for the second time on the field at Petersburg, 
delayed his retreat too long when the regiment was 
obliged to fall back, and was overtaken and captured 
with his charge ; though not, as was afterwards learned, 
till he had stripped the colors from the staff and torn 
them into shreds. From all blame or dishonor for the 
loss of these the regiment was exculpated in General 
Orders from army head-quarters. The old, worn, and 
shot-riddled " Stars and Stripes," though bearing fresh 
tokens of an enemy's hatred in its tattered folds, still 
remained to the regiment, and seemed dearer than ever. 
All through the fight, and where the leaden hail fell 
thickest, there floated the starry banner of Freedom, 
which had been borne by Sergeant Dutton, of Company 
E, since the morning of July 30th, he having previous to 
that date carried the State colors from the commence- 
ment of the campaign. 



1864.] SHIFTING SCENES AND VARYING FORTUNES. 527 

UNDER THE OLD FLAG. 
By Sergeant Diitton. 

On the morning of the 30th of September (we had 
been under orders for three days, and had everything 
packed up ready to start at a moment's notice) we moved 
to the left, following the Fifth corps, which had made a 
charge upon a new line of the enemy and carried it with 
little loss. Passing the Pegram house, to a belt of woods 
across a field, and through the woods, we then formed in 
line in a road under a bank running parallel with them. 

As we lay there under the bank orders came to charge. 
We went over a little rise of ground, over a picket fence, 
through the garden and yard of the house, and across 
.the road into an orchard, where we halted and com- 
menced firing. I remember seeing the rebels go down 
under our fire, and from where I stood I could see them 
very plainly. The next thing I heard was somebody 
shouting "Bring oft' the colors!" I looked hastily 
around me, and found that the men had retreated. I 
ran back into the road, and there, only a few rods away, 
the Johnnies were piling over the fence and coming in 
on our left ; so I started for the yard. 

When I got to the house, which had a brick basement, 
I could see that it was full of men, who had crowded 
into it to escape the bullets, which were flying tolerably 
thick about that time. There was n't time to do much 
planning, and the question in physics was one that the 
bullets would solve if we didn't. " Hurrah, boys ! rally 
round the flag ! " I shouted, and started for the rear. 
The boys were close behind, and over a rise of ground 
we went, then into the woods, and from there back to a 
little embankment, where we stopped and began to form 



528 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [October, 

a line. General Griffin rode up to where we were, and 
saying " Sergeant, here ! " stood me at his horse's head 
and called to the men to rally around us. It was while 
we were in this position that his horse was shot through 
the nose. 

By the time we got back to the Pegram house it was 
dark. I found about sixteen men, and we put ourselves 
under the charge of Lieutenant Robinson, the only 
commissioned officer of the regiment that we could find. 
It was about this time that Lieutenant Emery was shot, 
while carrying orders to the staff of General Griffin. 
Here we remained that night, the Fifth corps and artil- 
lery, which had made a stand here also, being on our 
right. When daylight came it was plainly evident that 
we had been left to our fate. The enemy soon formed a 
line around the battery, and about eight o'clock the}'- 
opened fire and charged on the position, capturing those 
of the brigade that remained. There were a good many 
of these, for only a few cared to take the risk of retreat- 
ing across a field raked with deadly precision by canister 
and grape shot. The moment the first shot was fired, 
however, I called to the few of our men that were there 
to follow me, and we went back over a rise of ground to 
where the rest of the regiment had come together, at 
which place we remained the rest of the day. 



On the morning of October 2 the lines were again ad- 
vanced, the enemy falHng back into their works. A 
picket line was established well out towards these, and 
a line of strong works, running past the Pegram liouse, 
was begun. " Behind these, and a little to the left of the 
house, the Ninth New Hampshire was stationed. The 





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1864.] SHIFTING SCENES AND VARYING FORTUNES. 529 

following day a squad of recruits and convalescents 
arrived, a few stragglers came back into camp, and 
some of the men who had previously been on duty else- 
where returned ; so that altogether the regiment was 
able to report about one hundred and fifty men for duty. 
With these sensible additions to their number the spirits 
of the men began to revive, and the feeling to prevail 
that the Ninth New Hampshire was not yet quite anni- 
hilated. Comfortable quarters were soon erected, and a 
regular routine of camp guard and picket duty established. 
Life in camp for the next three weeks was of almost 
unbroken monotony, but what little there was of in- 
cident is aptly told in Sergeant Burnham's gossipy home 
letters. Under date of the nth is this : 

" I have fixed up a very comfortable ' hotel,' and with 
Stearns, who returned about a week ago, for a house- 
wife, and Button, who is acting as sergeant-major and 
tents nearer head-quarters, for a boarder, I find myself 
again established in comparative quiet and comfort, I 
might almost add luxury. For instance, I am writing 
on a very convenient, even if rudely-constructed, table, 
furnished with all the necessary material for writing, a 
good supply of paper, and an excellent adamantine 
candle. My seat is my bunk, furnished with a splendid 
bed of pine twigs and blankets enough to keep warm 
at present. Other conveniences are ranged around, 
and the whole establishment presents a more comfort- 
able, cheerful aspect, with the exception of a fire, than 
our quarters the first winter at Falmouth. It cost us not 
over six hours' work, and all simply from a few boards 
ripped from the Boswell house — and knowing how to 
use them. 

"The following was our bill of fare to-day: Break- 

XXXIV 



530 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [October, 

fast — Soft bread and butter, apple and blueberry sauce 
(contributed by Dutton from a supply from home), 
coffee. Dinner — Steak, fried, with pork; hard-tack, 
soaked and fried ; sauce, coffee. Supper — Meat, same 
as for dinner ; potatoes, toasted hard-tack. This to be 
sure is somewhat extra, but I am showing you the bright 
side of the picture just now. 

"A week ago Saturday, 'tack' with raw pork, a 
piece of codfish, and a cup of cold coffee once or twice, 
was all I could command. A cold, drizzling rain was 
in progress, and my only protection was a rubber 
blanket thrown over my shoulders. During the fore- 
noon we dug a rifle-pit, and through the long afternoon 
stood behind it. At night stuck up a ' shelter,' and three 
of us crawled under, pulled our wet blankets over us, 
and shivered the night away. But this is a picture on 
the other side of the canvas. Fortunately such are not 
frequent in the panorama we are acting. 

" The health of the regiment generally is good, and I 
might add its spirits too. We miss, to be sure, the com- 
rades w'e lost the other day ; yet the most of them we 
know are unharmed, and their loss is all we have to 
mourn, as we now hold the battle-field, while success 
has attended our efforts everywhere else. To-night the 
camp and woods are ringing with loud and joyous cheers 
for Sheridan, who sends us word that he has just given 
Early a third, and it would seem a finishing, drubbing. 
Probably a large portion of his army will be transferred 
here in a short time. 

" Meanwhile we, though quiet, as I have said, are 
by no means idle. Drilling, re-organizing, repairing is 
the order of the day. Every inch of the ground we have 
gained is being fortified in the strongest manner possible. 



1S64.] SHIFTING SCENES AND VARYING FORTUNES. 53 1 

" We find, almost to our surprise, that the old Ninth 
is not used up altogether, and will be shortly, if not as 
good as ever, able at least to make quite a respectable 
showing. Similar remarks would apply to most of the 
old regiments ; while here and there new ones, with full 
ranks and looking at a little distance almost like a 
brigade, are filling the places of those whose terms are 
expiring. Wonder if this doesn't make Lee at least 
uneasy, as he looks at his thin, and growing thinner, 
ranks? 

" Longer and stronger, too, grows the wall with which 
we are fencing him in. A few weeks more, and it will 
reach the South Side railroad, at a greater or less dis- 
tance from Petersburg ; whether with or without a severe 
struggle, remains to be seen — then the further occupa- 
tion of Petersburg will be as much a disadvantage to 
Lee as to us. It is in vain to predict what he will then 
do, or undertake to do. If he stays in his fortifications, 
not only Richmond but his whole army will be in our 
hands before spring ; while if he runs, or comes out and 
attacks us, his prospects are no brighter. Johnny has 
grit, and fights in a manner worthy of a better cause, 
but sooner or later he must surrender or be exterminated." 

For two weeks the big guns had been silent, and by a 
sort of truce between the pickets firing had ceased alto- 
gether along the part of the line near the camp of the 
Ninth, and but for the night guard at the breastworks 
(one third of the force being kept on duty there each 
night) there was little to remind one of the proximity of 
the foe. Drills were held frequently, for the benefit of 
the new recruits, of whom about sixty had been lately 
received. Counting in everything and everybody, sick 



532 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [October, 

or well, the Ninth at this date could muster in the 
vicinity of two hundred for rations if not for duty. On 
the morning of the 14th the new double-shooting rifles 
with which the regiment was to be equipped, the issuance 
of which had been so unceremoniously interrupted nearly 
three weeks before, were brought from City Point by 
Lieutenant Robinson. 

During the forenoon there was a military execution, — 
that of a deserter from the Second Mar3'land, and the 
troops of the Second division not on duty elsewhere were 
drawn up in a field near the Feeble house, on three sides 
of a hollow square and facing inward, and outside of 
these were thousands of eager spectators. At the open 
end of the square was the grave which the prisoner was 
soon to fill, and near by and facing this stood General 
Potter and his staff" in full uniform. All the prelimi- 
naries having been arranged, what might be termed the 
funeral procession appeared. In advance was the band, 
playing funeral airs, then a detachment of guards, the 
prisoner accompanied by his chaplain, four soldiers bear- 
ing the coffin, and the detail for the execution, all com- 
manded by a lieutenant. The procession made the cir- 
cuit of the square, then down the centre to the grave, 
and halted a few paces in front of it. The band and 
escort moved to one side, the coffin was placed near the 
grave, and the prisoner, after a moment's conference 
with the chaplain, was seated upon it, handcuffed and 
blindfolded. The chaplain stepped aside, the detail took 
position about ten paces in front of the culprit, and 
directed by signs from the officer in charge quickly 
brought their rifles to the position " Ready — aim !" 
With a report as of but one musket, though ver}^ sharp 
and distinct amid the profound silence, the fatal Mini6 




Capt. John B. Cooper. 



1864.] SHIFTING SCENES AND VARYING FORTUNES. 533 

balls sped through the heart of the deserter, and he fell 
back on the coffin, dead. 

The troops then wheeled, by divisions of two com- 
panies each, into columns, and marching past the corpse, 
moved off the field. It was a painful scene, but a due 
regard for discipline required the infliction of the death 
penalty, which cannot wholly be dispensed with, either 
in civil or military government, and this man had been 
convicted of the highest crime that a soldier can com- 
mit — desertion to the enemy. 

' On the 15th, Captain Cooper, who had been in com- 
mand of the regiment since the Battle of the Mine, left 
for home on a short furlough, and the command devolved 
on Captain Hutchinson. Another week of guard duty 
and drills — company in the morning, and battalion in 
the afternoon — slipped awa}^. General Griffin evidently 
intended to have his command well posted, for he laid 
out a daily programme in which " fatigue" was the princi- 
pal item, with a small margin for grumbling. It was 
reveille at 6, breakfast 7, surgeon's call 7 :30, guard 
mount 8, drill 9 to 11, dinner 12, drill i to 3, dress 
parade 5, supper 7, tattoo 8, taps 8 :i5 ; with guard and 
picket duty for incidentals. On the 23d divine services 
were held at brigade head-quarters, conducted by Chap- 
lain Potter of the Thirty-second Maine, — the first for 
nearly two months. 

But the longest lane has a turning, and on the 25th 
orders were received at brigade head-quarters to make 
ready for a move, and to issue six days rations. The 
following day everj^thing not actually needed by the 
troops in the field or the garrisons to be left in the forts 
was sent to City Point, pack-mules being allowed the 
officers for a minimum of baggage. Small intrenching 



534 NINTH NE W HAMPSHIRE. [October, 

spades, which could be attached to the belt, and carried 
about as easily as a hatchet, were distributed among the 
men, and ever3'thing seemed to indicate a big strike in 
some direction. 

Long before daylight on the 27th the men were routed 
out and ordered to strike tents, and without kindling 
fires or making any loud noise, to make ready for march- 
ing. The Thirty-first Maine and the Seventeenth Ver- 
mont, from the Second brigade, were left behind as a 
garrison, and all being in readiness, the start was made 
at four o'clock. The Second division moved to the 
angle formed by the rear and left flank lines, and at 
dawn attacked the enemy's pickets, driving them in. 
The Second brigade was in line on the extreme right, 
near the old breastworks, the Ninth New Hampshire 
beino; near the left centre of the bricjade line, and having 
forty men on the skirmish line. 

That mornincr the regiment was under the command 
of Captain Hutchinson, with Captain Copp and Lieuten- 
ant Robinson in charge of the right and left wings 
respectively ; and these three constituted all the commis- 
sioned officers present for duty, the companies being 
commanded by sergeants, and even corporals. 

The lines were advanced a short distance during the 
forenoon, and the men were then set to work on a line of 
breastworks which, thanks to the new spades, were in 
good shape before night. The Third division was in 
position on the left of the Second, with the First beyond 
them, and the Second and Fifth corps stretching out still 
farther from the old lines. There was some lively 
skirmishing, and sharp fighting even, elsewhere along 
the line before night, but the Second division rested 
undisturbed. The position remained unchanged until 



1864.] SHIFTING SCENES AND VARYING FORTUNES. 535 

noon of the following day. It had rained all night, and 
the morning was cloudy and cold, but with the clearing 
weather at noon the return movement was commenced, 
and before sunset the men were back in their old camps. 

This was the movement on Hatcher's Run, and was 
the result of an attempt at further prolongation of the 
Union line on the left. It was known that the Confed- 
erate line was strongly fortified at this point, but General 
Grant had hoped to turn the defences by his favorite ma- 
neuver of a flank movement. The works were found to 
be not only strongly constructed, and protected with abatis 
and slashed timber, but the vigilant foe at once entered 
on a counter-attack, and for a time the result was some- 
what doubtful. A few flags and prisoners were taken 
on both sides before the contest finally closed. This 
movement was the last on the left line in which the Ninth 
corps participated. 

Back in camp again, the men employed the remaining 
days of October in rebuilding their quarters for winter 
weather, for the cold nights and frequent rains called for 
blazing fires and tight roofs, if the occupants cared any- 
thing for comfort. Inspection and muster were held on 
the 31st, and the four commissioned officers that the 
regiment could then boast had a busy day of it. Sutlers 
were now flocking into camp, and it began to look as 
though the army were going into winter quarters in good 
earnest. 

November came in cold and rainv, with the usual rou- 
tine of duty. At dress parade on the 4th an order from 
army head-quarters was read, calling for thorough drill- 
ing and also target practice among the recruits. There 
was need of the order, too, for by far the majority of the 
recruits sent out to the army during the year 1864 were 



536 NINTH NE W HA MPSHIKE. [November, 

practically worthless as soldiers. They did well enough 
to fill quotas at home, but few of them ever filled patriots' 
graves at the front. What with the weather and all, it is 
not strange that the "vets" were getting just a trifle low 
in spirits ; and it really was hard for men who had stood 
shoulder to shoulder in the ranks for so long, who had 
fought and starved and suffered together, to be classed 
in with these lame apologies for men and soldiers. Nor 
was it easy for men to see that lying in a mud- hole a 
month at a time was doing anything towards subduing 
the Rebellion, and a little kindly assurance from the 
friends at home that they were doing a good work, and 
that it did amount to something, would have put a differ- 
ent aspect on affairs. 

The 5th of November Colonel Titus returned, and 
assumed command of the regiment. The following day, 
which was Sunday, there was a thorough inspection of the 
men and quarters, but both were in better shape than 
could reasonably have been expected in view of the vicis- 
situdes the regiment had suffered in the last six months. 
On the 7th a course of drilling and instruction was entered 
upon that promised rapid improvement in the matter of 
detail and a toning up of regimental discipline. 

Tuesday, November 8, was the day of the presidential 
election, and the Ninth New Hampshire placed itself on 
record at the polls by depositing eighty-five votes for 
Abraham Lincoln to eighteen for McClellan. In the 
afternoon, at battalion drill, the new double-shooting 
rifles were inspected and tested by the division inspector- 
general, and showed off" their demerits to good advantage 
— flashed, fizzled, and failed famously ; enough to secure 
their condemnation and a speedy exchange to the Spring- 
field rifle. 



1864.] SHIFTING SCENES AND VARYING FORTUNES. 537 

On the 9th, Capt. O. D. Robinson was detailed as act- 
ing adjutant of the regiment. Major Chandler, who 
had returned to the front early in September, before his 
wound, received at Spottsylvania in June, had fully 
healed, and in consequence of over-exertion had passed 
two weary months in the division hospital and was still 
unfit for active duty, was ordered back to Washington. 

By the 12th it was certain that President Lincoln had 
been triumphantly re-elected, and the good news was 
emphasized by an order making the day a general holi- 
day throughout the camp. Then came a week or ten 
days of cold, disagreeable weather, winding up with a 
genuine "north-easter," that came near drowning out 
the camp. The presidential proclamation had designat- 
ed the 24th as the national Thanksgiving day, but no 
extra supplies could be procured at City Point, and there 
was only the usual fare. But home friends had remem- 
bered the boys in blue, and the morning of the 25th there 
was a generous supply of good things to be distributed, 
and another "off duty" day allowed the boys in which 
to enjoy them. There was a turkey and a fat chicken 
for every five men, and a liberal allowance of apples, 
crackers, and ginger-snaps. And did n't everything taste 
good, and weren't the boys jolly! How they laughed 
and cried, told stories and cracked old jokes ! Oh, it did 
them good, soul and body, to know that they were not 
forgotten, and a visit in the afternoon from a delegation 
of ladies and gentlemen from the old Granite state added 
the finishing touch to a memorable day. 

On the 29th the corps was moved to the vicinity of the 
Jerusalem plank-road, the Ninth New Hampshire 
encamping for the night at Fort Alex Hayes, about a 
mile to the south of the plank-road. The tide of fortune 



538 NINTH NE W HAMPSHIRE. [November, 

had evidently taken a favorable turn, for the next day 
brought the welcome news that until further orders the 
Ninth New Hampshire, Thirt3'-second Maine, and 
Seventh Maine battery, all under command of Colonel 
Titus, were to act as the garrison of Fort Hayes. This 
was indeed occasion for rejoicing, for it was one of the 
best places on the line, and only needed more snugly 
built quarters to make it a most comfortable abiding- 
place for the winter months. 

The garrison was required to furnish pretty heavy 
details for guard and picket duty, but otherwise than this 
but little was required of them. Directed by the colonel, 
the men laid out the camp anew, and set to work with a 
will at their house-building. There was plenty of timber 
near by, and teams were furnished to haul the logs, so 
the work progressed rapidly ; and with such good pur- 
pose did the men apply themselves to the task that by the 
middle of the month the regiment was the proud possess- 
or of one of the best sets of quarters in the army, and 
was reported as being excelled by only one other at the 
time of the official inspection. 

The men were divided into squads of four, each squad 
having a house by itself. These were eleven feet long 
by seven wide, the log walls five feet high, the roof eight 
feet from the ground in the centre and covered with four 
pieces of shelter tent, two to a side. The inside was 
fitted up with a row of bunks on one side and a fire-place 
on the other, wnth stools and tables according to the fan- 
cies of the owners. These were the first real quarters 
the regiment had ever occupied, and thougli some ot 
them had grumbled not a little because the colonel would 
have every detail "just so particular," they were proud 
enough when everything was at last pronounced satisfac- 



1864.] SHIFTING SCENES AND VARYING FORTUNES. 539 

tory ; and when the wind and sleet reigned without, 
lounged around in their snug quarters and congratulated 
themselves on the good fortune that had wafted them to 
this pleasant haven. 



CHAPTER XVI. 
The Downfall of the Confederacy. 

The Army of the Potomac, resting in comparative 
quiet through the winter months of i86^-6^, was yet, in 
its investure of the- strongholds of the Confederacy, an 
important factor in the brilHant strategic plan of the Union 
commander-in-chief. The policy which dictated offen- 
sive activity in almost every other quarter, was equally 
purposeful in the apparent inaction that prevailed in Vir- 
ginia. To prevent Lee from withdrawing his army from 
Virginia, and hurling his concentrated strength on Sher- 
man, as he marked by successive victories his triumphant 
progress " from Atlanta to the sea," was General Grant's 
prime object; and with the buttress of the Confederate 
forces hemmed in by the Union lines, he felt that there 
was little to apprehend in this direction. 

The advance on Sherman would have been a desper- 
ate throw, yet the Confederacy was playing for big 
stakes and could afford to take the risk ; but the mere 
suggestion of a move involving the abandonment of the 
Confederate capital, drew forth a storm of protest from 
the Richmond journals, by whom such a course was pro- 
nounced as synonomous with surrender at discretion. 

" He either fears his fate too much, 
Or his deserts are small, 
Who fails to put it to the touch 
And win, or lose, it all." 



1865.] THE DOWNFALL OF THE CONFEDERACY. 54I 

In lieu of a bold stroke, an expedient was resorted to 
whose utter humiliation was in itself a palpable admission 
of weakness and the omen of approaching doom. The 
arming of the blacks on the Union side had been merci- 
lessly condemned in the South, and the idea that they 
could be transformed into effective soldiers ridiculed ; but 
the wasted ranks of the Southern army could be filled in 
no other way, and such slaves as could bear arms were 
freed, and given a musket with which to contend against 
the would-be liberators of the whole race. 

So the winter wore slowly away, and with the opening 
of spring it seemed evident on all sides that the final, 
decisive struggle of the war was approaching. Up to 
the latter part of March the Ninth corps occupied the 
intrenchments on the right, their line extending from the 
Appomattox to Fort Howard, At the point where the 
line crossed the Prince George Court-house road was 
Fort Steadman, a square redoubt carrying nine guns and 
distant about five hundred feet from the enemy's line. 
Towards this point, which was one of the captured works, 
the Confederate commander made his last offensive 
movement on the morning of the 25th of March, 1865, 
with the idea of breaking through the lines and destroy- 
ing the supplies at City Point. 

Just before daylight the fort was surprised by a squad 
of pretended deserters, who overpowered the pickets and 
opened the way for a strong force of picked men, closely 
supported by three heavy columns of the enemy, from 
Gordon's and Bushrod Johnson's divisions. The fort 
was held by the Fourteenth New York heavy artillery, 
who were completely overwhelmed and most of them 
captured. The guns were turned on the adjacent works 
by the triumphant foe, who succeeded in driving the 



542 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [March, 

soldiers from three of the batteries. But the tables were 
quickly turned. General Parke, in temporary command 
of the Ninth corps, ordered Hartranft's and Willcox's 
divisions to the rear of the fort, from whence they were 
hurled upon the enemy with the precision and effective- 
ness of a thunderbolt. Eighteen hundred prisoners were 
taken, and the re-captured guns were quickly wheeled 
upon the discomfited and fleeing forces, so recently 
flushed with success. 

Orders for the grand movement which was to give the 
finishing blow to the Rebellion had already been issued 
by General Grant. The forty miles of Union front 
stretched from the north bank of the James to Hatcher's 
Run ; fifteen miles to the south from Petersburg was 
Dinwiddle Court-house, and four miles to the north-west 
of this was Five Forks, which, though so far from the 
city, was from its peculiar situation in reality the key to 
the stronghold. Six miles to the north from Five Forks 
was the South Side railroad, where Lee had established 
a strong line of works. With this point carried there 
was unobstructed passage to the Danville railroad, and 
Petersburg and Richmond at the mercy of the victor. 

At length the strong, silent man gathered his forces 
for the final blow. No meaningless Salmonean thunders 
now of empty chariots or brazen bridges, but the veri- 
table thunderbolts of war, hurled by the arm of Ulysses. 
On the 28th of March, Sheridan with two divisions of 
cavalry set out for Dinwiddle Court-house, which was 
reached late in the afternoon of the following day ; in the 
mean time Warren with the Fifth corps had crossed 
Hatcher's Run and was making for the same point. The 
movement was discovered by the vigilant commander of 
the Confederate forces, and on the morning of the 30th 



1S65.] THE DOWNFALL OF THE CONFEDERACY. 543 

Sheridan had advanced only a mile beyond the court- 
house when the enemy was encountered. After a care- 
ful reconnoissance Sheridan attacked in the early after- 
noon. The fight was a hot one, and Sheridan, unable 
to employ his cavalry to advantage, owing to the marshy 
nature of the ground, dismounted his men, and slowly, 
contesting the ground as he withdrew, fell back to the 
court-house, where the contest ended in the early evening. 

The morning of the ist of April saw the enemy strongly 
intrenched at Five Forks. During the forenoon Sheri- 
dan, with his cavalry supported by the Fifth corps, 
which had come up in the mean time, slowly and cau- 
tiously advanced once more towards the coveted position. 
A single sentence in Sheridan's official report gives the 
gist of the story. 

"The enemy," writes Sheridan, "were driven from 
their strong line of works, completely routed ; the Fifth 
corps doubling up their left flank in confusion, and the 
cavalry of General Merritt, dashing on to White Oak 
road, capturing their artillery, turning it upon them, and 
riding into their broken ranks, so demoralized them that 
they made no serious stand after their line was carried, 
but took flight in disorder." 

The way was open to the South Side railroad. "At- 
tack along the whole line," was the imperative message 
issued from General Grant's head-quarters to his corps 
commanders, and at ten o'clock that Saturday evening 
the big guns in position before Petersburg opened from 
right to left, the distant hills echoing and re-echoing all 
night long the signal victory that their thunderous boom- 
ing proclaimed. 

Lee and his veterans, the last hope of a lost cause, 
still held the city, but the Confederate commander felt 



544 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [April, 

that its doom was sealed. In the assault ordered by 
General Grant at daybreak on the 2d of April, blow 
after blow, to the right and to the left, was dealt the 
steadily weakening defences. With his heavy losses, — 
by this time exceeding 10,000 men — with his right wing 
utterly demolished, and imminent capture or destruction 
staring his handful of veterans in the face, is it any 
wonder that at half-past ten o'clock on that beautiful 
Sabbath morning he sent to Jefferson Davis, president of 
the Confederacy, the last official despatch he was des- 
tined to receive. 

The message found him at church in the city of Ricli- 
mond. Its brief purport — " My lines are broken in three 
places. Richmond must be evacuated this evening.'' — 
was warning enough, and within half an hour Davis had 
left the city behind him. No words had been uttered as 
he withdrew from the church, but none were needed. 
Pollard, the eminent Southern historian, has depicted, as- 
no one else can, the scenes of that last afternoon and 
night of Confederate rule in Richmond, in the following 
brief extract : 

"The rumor was caught up in the streets that Rich- 
mond was to be evacuated, and was soon carried to the 
ends of the city. Men, women, and children rushed 
from the churches, passing from lip to lip news of the 
impending fall of Richmond. And yet, it was difficult 
to believe it. To look up to the calm, beautiful sky of 
that spring day, unassailed by one single noise of battle, 
to watch the streets, unvexed by artillery or troops,, 
stretching away into the quiet, hazy atmosphere, and; 
believe that the capital of the Confederacy, so peaceful,, 
so apparently secure, was in a few hours to be the prey" 



1865.] THE DOWNFALL OF THE CONFEDERACY. 545 

of the enemy, and to be wrapped in the infernal horrors 
of a conflagration ! 

"It was late in the afternoon when the signs of evacu- 
ation became apparent to the incredulous. Wagons on 
the streets were being hastily loaded at the departments 
with boxes, trunks, etc., and driven to the Danville 
depot. Those who had determined to evacuate with the 
fugitive government looked on with amazement; then, 
convinced of the fact, rushed to follow the government's 
example. Vehicles suddenly rose to a premium value 
that was astounding; and ten, fifteen, and even a hun- 
dred dollars, in gold or Federal currency, was offered 
for a conveyance. Suddenly, as if by magic, the streets 
became filled with men, walking as though for a wager, 
and behind them excited negroes with trunks, bundles, 
and luggage of every description. All over the city it 
was the same — wagons, trunks, bandboxes, and their 
owners, a mass of hurrying fugitives, filling the streets. 
The banks were all open, and depositors were as busy as 
bees removing their specie deposits ; and the directors 
were equally active in getting off" their bullion. Hun- 
dreds of thousands of dollars of paper money was 
destroyed, both state and Confederate. Night came; 
and with it came confusion worse confounded. There 
was no sleep for human eyes in Richmond that night." 

The fall of Richmond was the death-blow of the 
Rebellion, and was rejoiced over accordingly. Before 
noon of the 3d of April the joyful news had been flashed 
over tlie loyal states, and the whole North gave itself up 
to a general jubilation. Everywhere business was sus- 
pended, and crowds gathered to listen to the reading of 
the despatches amid the chiming of bells and cheers and 

XXXV 



546 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [April, 

huzzas from thousands of loyal hearts. Hopes, long 
deferred, had at last been realized, and it was once more 
"The Union forever!" 

The evacuation of Petersburg was of course simultane- 
ous with that of Richmond, but it was accomplished so 
quietly that not even the watchful Union pickets, scarce 
a stone's throw away, knew that the enem}- was retreat- 
ing until the dawning light revealed the empty outposts. 
The skirmishers advanced, but were unassailed. The 
troops were at once put in motion, and Colonel Ely's 
brigade of the Ninth corps was the first to pass the 
enemy's works. At half-past four the Stars and Stripes 
were floating over the court-house : the long besieged, 
ably defended city was at last in Union hands. 

The Confederate army had fled, but they could not 
escape from the meshes of the encircling net so skilfully 
stretched by the Union commander-in-chief. The Con- 
federacy was dying hard, but it was useless to contend 
against fate. The lines were drawn even tighter around 
the devoted troops — faint with hunger and exhaustion, 
yet faithful to the last — that still followed the broken for- 
tunes of the Confederate leader; until the final capitula- 
tion at Appomattox Court-house, on the 9th day of April, 
1865. 

The last act in the great tragedy came all too soon. On 
the 14th of April, President Lincoln was stricken down 
by the assassin's bullet, while the prayers and blessings 
of the race he had freed were yet ringing in his ears. 
The first wave of enthusiasm and gladness over the 
collapse of the Rebellion had scarcely subsided when 
the country was called to mourn the death of the no- 
ble, martyred president, and the bells so recently at- 
tuned to pagans of joy were tolled in sad requiem. Alas 




Corp. Cyrus B. Norris, Co. E. 



1865.] THE DOWNFALL OF THE CONFEDERACY. 547 

that it should so be ; that so brief a moment of triumph 
should be vouchsafed after long years of disaster and 
defeat ! 



THE NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE'S LAST DAYS IN THE 
UNITED STATES SERVICE. 

Comfortably quartered as the garrison of Fort Hayes, 
the regiment passed the first three months of the year 
1865 in a pleasant round of daily duties. The quiet that 
prevailed throughout the Army of the Potomac was not 
productive of incident, and the days slipped by in almost 
unbroken sameness. The regiment was reorganized in 
the early part of the year, — a rather necessary procedure 
in view of the heavy losses sustained within the preced- 
ing six months, and resulting in several well earned pro- 
motions. Among others were those of Lieutenants Babb 
and Allen to be captains ; Second Lieutenant Robinson, 
who had also served as acting adjutant, to be first lieu- 
tenant, and later on to be captain, together with Lieutenant 
Quimby ; Sergeants Burnham, Simons, Kelly, and Hall 
as first lieutenants ; Sergeant Button as sergeant-major ; 
Corporals Norris, Richardson, Stearns, and Runnals as 
sergeants. 

Under date of January 27 is a letter from Colonel 
Titus to Major Chandler, who was still in Washington, 
detailing several interesting facts : 

" Two days ago I had just seated myself very comfort- 
ably to write 3'ou, feet duly elevated and pen in hand, 
when I momentarily paused to listen to a number of 
strange voices outside ; then a rap, and in obedience to 
the usual summons, ' Come in ! ' the door opened, and 
there appeared a crowd of citizens, several at least, if in 



548 NINTH NE W HA MPSHIRE. [J an u ary, 

military order, patterned after the Thirty-second Maine 
(now, alas! defunct), all hailing from New Hampshire. 
So of course the day was devoted to them. Went to the 
three New Hampshire regiments, also along the lines, to 
Forts Hell, Morton, etc. Nashua was represented by 
Oilman Scripture of the Indian Head House, also a Mr. 
Parkers, merchant tailor I believe ; B. P. Cheney, rail- 
road commissioner, and Dr. Tubbs of Peterborough. A 
Mr. Spalding, Mr. Morrison, also the sutler of the Thir- 
teenth New Hampshire, and somebody else. All of 
course were highly edified, and left at night for City 
Point. I am surprised that more men do not visit the 
army, — from mere curiosity, if nothing more. A man 
must see for himself to have any definite or correct 
knowledge of an army and its operations. 

"I am, as you see, still at Brigade [head-quarters] » 
General Griffin's leave expiring on the 31st inst. Gen- 
eral Meade is absent again, and General Parke com- 
manding the army and General Willcox the corps. Heard 
yesterday that General Willcox had obtained leave, so that 
General Potter would command the corps. In that case I 
shall be in command of the division till General Griffin's 
return. Believe I am now senior colonel in the corps, ex- 
cept Colonel Bliss. Colonel Bliss, by the way , is still some- 
where inWesternVirginia — inspecting hospitals, I believe. 

" Presume you have heard by the papers all about the 
wonderful exploits of the rebel gunboats, and what they 
did n't do. What makes the affair the more wonderful, 
is the fact that the deserters for some days previous had 
reported tiuit they were coming down. And then, when 
they did come, they lay aground for so long, apparently 
at our mercy, when our sharpshooters on the bank pre- 
vented them from opening a port-hole or firing a gun. 




Gen. J. G. Parke. 



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Believe General Grant attributes our escape and safety 
to a special interposition of Providence, and from what I 
can learn of the affair I think we may well believe the 
Lord on our side this time at least. Think the boats 
must have come down to bring General Ferrero's com- 
mission as major-general. 

" There are rumors to the effect that the rebs are about 
to evacuate Richmond. Of its truth I of course know 
nothincr. It seems General Butler is bound to be a hero 
in any event. . . . ' Tis hinted that General Meade may 
possibly not return to this army, and if true I think few 
beyond his immediate staff will have any regrets. . . . 
Picket and guard duty, with a little drilling, are the order 
of the day — and the night too. 

" The New Hampshire regiments here try to make 
themselves believe they are going home to vote at the 
March election.,^ I certainly should have no objection, 
though perhaps General Grant may. Presume he will 
not be likely to consider the New Hampshire state elec- 
tion of as much consequence as some people more 
immediately interested. . . . Captain Hutchinson is now 
away on leave. Captain Copp I suppose returned to- 
night. Suppose you are aware he committed matrimony 
durincr his absence. . . . 

" ' Tis acknowledged by all, I believe, that we have 
the best quarters of any regiment in the corps, and cer- 
tainly the best I have seen in the army. This was the 
result of supervision while building. You ought at least 
to come down and take a look at my own house. . . . 

" Well, Major, it seems this war must be nearly ended. 
Do n't know what the enemy may do in their desperation, 
but it really seems the fighting is nearly over. ' The 
wish is father to the thought,' perhaps." 



550 NINTH NEW IIAMrSHIRE. [March, 

Colonel Titus's mention of visitors from New Hamp- 
shire recalls a story told by Quartermaster Moses. One 
evening a jolly company had gathered at head-quarters, 
in honor of several guests from the Granite state who 
were spending a few days in camp. Everybody was in 
good spirits, and it was in the " wee, sma ' hours " that 
the candles were at last extinguished. Just as the guests 
were beginning to get accustomed to the novelty of their 
surroundings, there came a summons at the door. It was 
an orderly from General Griffin. " Colonel," said he, 
" the general's orders are to get your regiment ready to 
fall in, for 'tis thought the Johnnies are getting ready to 
attack." It seemed but an instant before the camp was 
astir, and in the hurry of the moment the visitors were 
forgotten. The colonel was busily engaged when one 
of them touched him on the arm. " Colonel, where shall 
we go?" he asked. " If the Johnnies come on us you '11 

go to h 1 !" was the comforting reply, as the colonel 

turned once more to his work. It happened that it was 
a false alarm, and presently the camp was quiet again, 
but the guests could not be persuaded to prolong their 
stay beyond a hurried breakfast the next morning. 

As for Captain Copp, he had duly acknowledged his 
commitment to Major Chandler, as the following letter, 
written from Lancaster, Mass., shows: 

"Your advice in regard to spending too much time at 
Lancaster, came too late, for I was ' done gone ' when your 
letter arrived, and my wife insists upon my remaining 
here as long as possible. The marriage ceremony took 
place at the churcli, January 17, 1865, at 2 1-2 p. m. ; 
reception at the house, from 3 to 4. No doubt you are 
surprised to learn of such a movement, but no more so 



i86s.] THE DOWNFALL OF THE CONFEDERACY. 55 1 

than I am, for it was not my intention when I left the 
army to take part in any such performance. . . . My 
heahh is better than when I left the regiment, although 
the surgeon here tliinks army life a little too rough for 
me. I should be ver}' happy to visit you in Philadelphia 
on my return, but do not think it will be convenient, as I 
am now over my time. I have a surgeon's certificate, 
however, which will make it all right." 

March 14 the election for members of congress from 
the state of New Hampshire was held at head-quarters. 
Everybody was busily engaged, — some at the polls, 
others preparing the noonday mess, when an alarm was 
started that the enemy was advancing in line of battle. 
There was one grand, simultaneous rush from the cook- 
house and ballot-box to the bayonet, and in less than five 
minutes every man was armed and equipped and in line 
for the warm reception of the invader. After waiting for 
a full hour, it became manifest that his visit had been 
unavoidably postponed, and the voting and cooking were 
once more taken in hand. Whether the dinner was 
spoiled by the delay is not recorded, but the regiment is 
credited with a total of eigrhty-seven votes. 

During the night orders were received for the sutlers 
to pack up their goods and remove them to City Point. 
No direct move of the corps was ordered, but rumors and 
speculations were rife through the day, and there was 
every indication that a great movement was being in- 
augurated, and awaiting only a suitable condition of the 
roads to be vigorously prosecuted. For a day or two 
nothing else was talked of, and then the excitement 
gradually subsided. The Sixth corps was under march- 
ing orders, but the Ninth was to remain to hold the line 



552 NINTH NE W HAMPSHIRE. [April, 

from the i\ppomattox to Fort Davis, and thence south to 
protect the military depot at City Point. 

The days slipped by until the 28th of March, when 
orders were received to have everything in readiness to 
move at five o'clock the following morning. How the 
regiment was to leave its present quarters unless relieved, 
no man could tell ; but " orders is orders," and were 
obeyed accordingly. Everybody was routed out at four 
in the morning, but there was no further movement dur- 
ing the day. A little past ten in the evening the enemy 
opened on the right of the line with a terrific bombard- 
ment, accompanied with a heavy volley of musketry. 
The alarm was instantly given, the long roll was beaten, 
and the sentinels discharged their muskets. Most of the 
officers and men were in bed, but in an instant every one 
sprang to his feet, buckled on his equipments, and the 
regiment was formed in line of battle inside of five 
minutes. 

The bombardment continued for more than an hour, 
and was very rapid, shell after shell from tlie mortars 
wheeling through the thick darkness with terrible swift- 
ness, and spreading their death-dealing fragments broad- 
cast. It was learned next day that Major Brown of the 
Eighteenth New Hampshire had been killed during the 
bombardment. Major Brown was formerly adjutant of 
the Ninth, and was a brave, patriotic, noble-souled man, 
beloved and respected by all who knew him. 

In the great battle of April 2, which sealed the fate of 
the Confederacy, the regiment took no very active part, 
remaining that day as a garrison to hold the fort in case 
of an assault from the enemy. During the night of the 
2d they were taken from the fort and placed in tiie column 
which was to renew the assault the next morning. The 



1865.] THE DOWNFALL OF THE CONFEDERACY. 553 

dawning light revealed the fact that the enemy was 
evacuating. It was five o'clock in the morning of April 
3 when the line cautiously advanced, but as they neared 
the fortifications no belching cannon or rattling musketry 
opposed them, and they hurried forward — over forts 
filled with abandoned artillery, where the officers' tents 
were still standing — and presently halted on Cemetery 
hill, which commanded a full view of the long besieged 
citadel. 

It was a glorious moment for those war-worn veterans. 
Behind them lay the strong, and hitherto impregnable, 
works of the enemy, the unbroken line which they had 
confronted for so many weary months ; and beyond, 
their own fortifications and camps, and the burying- 
grounds of the t^arious divisions, where so many of their 
gallant comrades were lying, victims of disease or 
bullets while bravelv contending for what their com- 
rades-in-arms had been spared to behold. Before them 
was the now quiet city of Petersburg, beautiful to behold 
with its fresh green grass-plots and its thousands of fruit 
trees in full blossom. 

The morning was clear and calm, and the first beams 
of the rising sun were just gilding the spires and steeples 
of the churches, flashing in brilliancy from the thousands 
of burnished muskets, in the hands of the soldiers ranged 
along the heights, and lighting up the folds of " Old 
Glory " as it proudly floated from the lofty cupola of the 
court-house, while line after line of living blue, with 
tattered banners streaming in the morning breeze, swept 
up the long slopes, cheering until the very heavens gave 
back the sound. 

Never will that scene be forgotten by those who beheld 
it. As the troops entered the city the white inhabitants 



554 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [April, 

for the most part treated them coldly, appearing sullen 
and indignant, even while their haggard and careworn 
faces revealed the intensity of the strain to which they 
had been subjected. But the negroes seemed wild with 
delight. They waved their hats, bonnets, and aprons ; 
shouted, sang, laughed, danced, and prayed promiscu- 
ously, and fairly exhausted their "Anglo-African " vocab- 
ulary in heaping praises upon the Yankees. All classes 
had been reduced to great straits, and even the little 
children, both black and white, devoured the dry, hard 
bread which the soldiers showered upon them as if it had 
been sweetmeats. 

Returning to camp, the regiment prepared to leave its 
comfortable quarters. The corps moved about noon, 
following the South Side railroad in pursuit of the re- 
treating Confederate forces. From the 6th to the 8th of 
April they were encamped at Nottoway Court-house, and 
on the latter date the Ninth New Hampshire, with two 
other regiments, was detailed to guard Ewell and his 
army (they having been captured two days previous) 
back towards Petersburg. The army numbered about 
eight thousand men, and included six generals, and to 
care for such a body of prisoners was anything but agree- 
able duty, for the weather was very unpleasant and the 
roads muddy from the recent heavy rains. The prisoners, 
so weak, weary, and footsore that sometimes the column 
would be strung out nearl}^ two miles, filled the centre ot 
the road, and the guards marched on either side with 
fixed bayonets. On the route several of the prisoners 
passed their own fathers' doors. At night they were 
turned into a large field, and the guard was ranged around 
the outside. Only light rations could be furnished the 
hungry soldiers the first day, but that night twenty beef 



1865.] THE DOWNFALL OF THE CONFEDERACY. 555 

cattle were killed and cooked, enough to provide a 
plentiful supply. 

Wilson's station was reached on the loth, and here 
full rations were served. Some of the prisoners had for- 
merly served on the Union side, and they acknowledged 
that these were the first full army rations they had re- 
ceived since they entered the Confederate service. 
While here the joyful tidings of Lee's capitulation were 
received, but there was little public demonstration over 
the news, out of consideration for their hapless captives. 

On the nth the regiment was relieved, and after a 
tedious march through the rain and mud, rejoined the 
brigade on the 13th, near Burkesville Junction. Here 
they remained on duty of various kinds until the 20th, 
when the last march through Virginia was begun. On 
Sunday, April 23, the Ninth corps marched through 
Petersburg between six and seven in the morning, en 
route for City Point, which was reached about noon. 

On the 26th embarkation for Alexandria began, the 
Ninth arriving there late in the following evening and 
going at once into camp. Military duty had now lost its 
charm, for the men felt that the great object of all their 
toil and suffering had been accomplished, and awaited 
with impatience the order for muster-out, though drills 
and reviews were still kept up, simply as a precaution- 
ary measure. 

Many a gray-haired veteran of to-day will recall with 
a smile the circumstances surrounding the following 
incident, so faithfully and skilfully pictured by an inter- 
ested comrade : 

" The only occasion within my knowledge when the 
late Major Chandler lapsed into profanity was at the 



556 NINTH NEiV HAMPSHIRE. [May, 

close of the war, while we were encamped near Alex- 
andria, Va., just before the 'grand review' in Washing- 
ton ; and then the circumstances were so exceptional 
that, as in the case of Uncle Tob}^ it is hoped the re- 
cording angel dropped a tear upon the oath and 'blotted 
it out forever.' 

" Many comrades will recall the foolhardy act of 
some harebrained member of another regiment in our 
brigade, who, having somewhere found an unexploded 
shell, brought it into camp, buried it in the ground (leav- 
ing the fuse exposed), and then, in reckless disregard of 
consequences, touched off a train of powder leading to 
the bomb. Several men were seriously wounded by 
fragments of the shell, and of course everybod}^ that was 
unhurt rushed towards the spot to ascertain the cause of 
the explosion. 

"On the way I met Major Chandler, walking with 
Paymaster W. H. H. Allen, afterwards Judge Allen of 
the New Hampshire supreme court, and asked what had 

happened. ' Why,' answered Chandler, 'a fool, a 

fool, a fool, has exploded a shell right on our 

color line I' ' That is a fool in the superlative degree,' 
said Allen, with the grave smile characteristic of the 
man ; but our major seemed to prefer his own vigorous 
expletives to the equivalent euphemism suggested by his 
friend." 

May 23 the regiment participated in the grand mili- 
tary review at Washington. It was a sight at once mag- 
nificent, soul stirring, and inspiring. After four years 
of unparalleled war the remnant of the army was a force 
mightier than any other single army in the world, and 
nearly all of them were war-worn veterans. Orders 



1865.] THE DOWNFALL OF THE CONFEDERACY. 557 

for mustering out were received on the 27th, and the 
officers went at the laborious task of makino- out the rolls 
with a right good will, for every one was anxious to get 
home. Indeed, it was like pulling teeth to get the men 
out for the regulation morning and afternoon drill, but 
they seemed to derive considerable satisfaction from 
heartily cursing the red-tape delay of the authorities, and 
in anticipating the time when no man could order them 
to " fall in " or " right dress." 

The final review of the Second division was by Gen- 
eral Parke, in the forenoon of June 3, and in the even- 
ing the camp of the Second brigade was brilliantly illum- 
inated. Lighted candles were set on either end of every 
shelter tent, and squads of men with lighted candles 
affixed to their bayonets inaugurated a torchlight proces- 
sion that numbered fully two thousand men by the time 
it reached head-quarters, where General Griffin made 
them a short speech, which was heartily cheered. 

June 5 all the recruits then remaining in the Ninth 
New Hampshire were transferred to the Sixth. The 
majority of these were excellent soldiers, for the chaft 
by this time had been pretty thoroughly sifted, and it 
was with feelings of real regret that the veterans said 
good-bye to the comrades who had served side by side 
with them so long and so faithfully. 

By Saturday, the loth, the last mustering-out roll had 
been completed and signed by the mustering officer, and 
that evening the last dress parade was held. General 
Griffin was present, and at the close shook hands with 
each of the officers, and addressed a short and verv ap- 
propriate speech to the men, after which all united in 
giving three cheers for their brave and greatly beloved 
general. Early next morning orders were received for 



558 NINTH NE W HAMPSHIRE. [J iin e, 

the regiment to report at Washington by ten in the fore- 
noon, and with joyful hearts the homesick soldiers strukc 
their tents and hastily packed up " for the last time." 
The Sixth New Hampshire, who had been their con- 
stant companions for nearly three years, accompanied 
b}^ the band of the Fifty-sixth Massachusetts, escorted 
the regiment to the ferry at Alexandria. Arrived at the 
foot of the street near the wharf, the Sixth halted and 
saluted by presenting arms as the Ninth passed. The 
Ninth then halted and returned the salute, after which 
each o'ave three cheers for the other and the officers 
shook hands, while the band in touching strains played 
"Auld Lang Syne." 

The regiment reached Philadelphia soon after sunrise, 
and proceeding through the city to the ferry, took break- 
fast at the Cooper saloon, where the same hearty wel- 
come w^as accorded them that they had received three 
years before. The afternoon found them in New York, 
where they marched up Courtlandt and down Broadway 
to the Battery barracks, where the men were given a 
hearty meal. About hve o'clock the regiment moved 
back and took the boat to Allen's Point. Arriving here 
in the early morning of the 13th, cars were at once taken 
for Concord. 

The capital of their native state was reached about 
noon, and the Ninth, marching direct to the state-house 
yard, were warmly welcomed b}'^ His Excellency Gov- 
ernor Smyth, the members of the legislature, and the 
citizens of Concord. After some short speeches the 
regiment was taken to the Eagle hotel and served with 
an excellent dinner, and then proceeded to their old 
camp across the river, where they were quartered for 
the night. 



1865] THE DOWNFALL OF THE CONFEDERACY. 559 

June 14, leaving the barracks, the regiment marched 
to the city under arms for the last dme. It would be 
difficult to say whether joy or sadness had the stronger 
predominance in their feelings as they passed through 
the familiar streets. There was joy at the thought of 
being at home once more, but only sadness when they 
gazed upon their thrice decimated ranks. Less than 
three short years before they had left the Capital city 
nearly a thousand strong, and now numbered less than 
two hundred. Depositing their muskets at the military 
depot, the regiment returned to the state-house yard, 
where Colonel Titus delivered up the old colors to his 
excellency the governor with these brief but eloquent 
words : 

"Governor of New Hampshire: Two years and 
ten months ago, when leaving our own loved state to 
take our place in the distant ranks of our country's de- 
fenders, this regiment here received from the hands of 
your honored predecessor this flag, with an injunction to 
iruard and defend it as we should maintain our own and 
our country's honor, wherever we might be by duty 
called. How well that charge has been kept, is told in 
part by the names now written upon it, in part by the 
names — an oft-lengthened, till now the longer list — of 
those that once stood in these ranks, who will answer to 
them never again. But the whole story of this tattered 
banner — its story of toil, of privation, of disease, of 
death, and of heroic devotion through it all — by blaz- 
oned names, by tongue nor pen, can never be told. 
Firm hands have carried it, stout hearts have followed 
and defended it, brave men have fallen around it ; but in 
face of the foe it has never been lowered, — save for an 



560 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [June, 

instant by dying hands, to be grasped again by the liv- 
ing, and borne aloft to final victory for us all. A rem- 
nant now of its once flaunting folds — so sadly emblem- 
atic of this remnant of these often rent and shattered 
ranks — bullet-riddled, war-worn, and battle-torn, but 
without other spot or stain, we return it now to you ; 
asking only that it be preserved in tender remembrance 
when we have returned to our peaceful homes." 

The flags were passed up to the stand, on which stood 
the governor with several members of the legislature, 
and as the patriotic strains of " The Star Spangled Ban- 
ner" filled the air, tears dimmed the eyes of many a 
hardy soldier, unused to weeping. Stirring speeches 
were made by Governor Sm3'th and Senator Hale, and 
the regiment was dismissed. 

The following day the men were paid off and dis- 
charged. But one thing remained, — for the officers 
and soldiers to take leave of each other. Their friend- 
ship had been formed by a common labor for a common 
end, and cemented by a common and patient endurance 
of hardships and sufferings the most trying and bitter ; 
and as the mutual farewells were spoken, many a hearty 
" God bless you ! " accompanied the parting salutations. 

Thursday, the 15th, all the officers were invited to 
Major Chandler's home in the evening, where they were 
splendidl}' entertained, and served to the best which the 
major's whole-souled liberality could furnish ; and on 
the following day they were given a farewell dinner at 
the Phenix hotel by Colonel Titus. 

The last tie had been severed, and the Ninth New 
Hampshire in its organization as a regiment was no 
more. The story of its heroic deeds and yet more 




Colors of the Ninth Regiment, N. H. V. 



1S65.] THE DOWNFALL OF THE CONFEDERACY. 561 

heroic endurance has been embodied in history ; its bat- 
tle-flags, war-worn, begrimed, baptized with the blood 
of their defenders, are sacredly preserved in the state 
capitol. Those grand old flags ! Those glorious Stars 
and Stripes ! We see written upon their folds to-day 
not only the names of the fields through which they 
were triumphantly borne, and of the patriots who died to 
uphold them, but we see in them the emblem of national 
unity and might, the embodiment of country, home, and 
freedom ! 

XXXVI 



CHAPTER XVII. 

Prisoners-of-War, at Macon and Savannah, 

Georgia, and Charleston and Columbia, 

South Carolina. 

By Lieut. C. JV. Wilcox. 

This record of my own experience while held as a 
prisoner-of-war, from May 12, 1864, to March i, 1865, 
is a correct and true statement of facts, taken from my 
diar}'^ kept at the time and from memory. Moreover, 
any comrade having any experience of those hells upon 
earth (rebel prisons), who reads this, will not only 
vouch for its truthfulness, but will say the half has not 
been told. I have read much that has been written by 
those confined in Andersonville and other prisons, and 
have never yet read of an experience which I thought 
in the least overstated. In my travels through the 
South since the war, where I have met many of the ex- 
rebel soldiers, I have never heard one try to excuse or 
justify their treatment of our men in prison, though I 
have heard some of the citizens do this — and well they 
might. With this brief prefatory statement, I respect- 
fully submit the narrative which follows : 

On the loth of May, 1864, our regiment was on the 
road leading from Fredericksburg to Spottsylvania, Va. 
Leaving this road in the afternoon, we formed a line 
of battle just beyond the court-house, behind some 
breastworks and supporting the Seventh Maine battery, 
remainincr there over night and until the afternoon of 



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Lieut. Charles W. Wilcox, Co. F. 



1S64.] PRISONERS-OF-WAR. 563 

the nth. Then we were taken about a mile to the rear, 
where we drew five days rations ; and the comrades 
may recall the very fresh beef rations that were issued. 
My supper of (neck) steak went into the frying-pan 
warm, but before it was cooked the order to fall in 
came, and on the march and in a Virginia rain-storm I 
partook of my last meal in " God's country." While 
behind the works we had been all the time under the 
fire of the rebel artillery, but, as I remember, no one 
was injured. We returned just before dark to the same 
breastworks, though a little to the right of the position we 
had previously occupied. Companies I and G were 
placed on the skirmish line, leaving my company (F) 
on the extreme right. 

Lieutenant-Colonel Babbitt had been put in command 
of the Thirty-second Maine, and Colonel Titus, being 
sick, had been sent to the hospital in Fredericksburg on 
the 9th, thus leaving our regiment in command of Maj. 
George H. Chandler. Capt. A. J. Stone acted as 
major, leaving Lieut. E. C. Babb in command of Com- 
pany F, and Capt. A. J. Hough was in command of the 
skirmish line. How it rained that night, while we lay 
on our arms ready for an attack at any moment ! There 
was very little firing, but it was evident from the sound 
of the bullets, as they zipped over us, that the rebs were 
very near, and in the pitchy darkness our picket line 
came tumbling over the works several times, causing 
the comrade whose heavy eyelids were just closing for a 
nap suddenly to wake up and grab his musket. 

The night seemed long, for we were without sleep and 
without rest, except what we obtained by lying on two 
rails, poles, or muskets, braced up on an incline against 
the earthworks. We were astir early, and at five o'clock 



564 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [May, 

were ordered forward. It was barely daylight, and a 
light rain was still falling, with a heavy fog. We had 
moved forward but a short distance when we met our 
picket line, with a number of rebel pickets which they 
had succeeded in capturing, although not until Lieut. 
George P. Sylvester, of Company I, had been mortally 
wounded. The bullets now began to fly perilously near, 
but there was no halt as Companies I and G formed on 
our right. 

The rebels, for some distance from their outer line of 
works, had formed an abatis by felling the short pine 
trees and trimming off' the ends of the limbs, and through 
this we had to charge. We advanced to within a few 
rods of their works, when they poured a deadly fire into 
us. We halted and returned the fire, but, although the 
men loaded and fired as fast as they could, it was impos- 
sible (as I saw at once after my capture) to dislodge the 
enemy from their strong position, and the wonder is that 
any man of us escaped alive. While we lay there 
firing, one of the men near me was shot through the 
throat. Another was shot through the arm, near the 
shoulder, and, the larger artery being cut, he bled pro- 
fusely. Taking a piece of rope, I bound his arm to 
stanch the flow of blood, and while doing this I heard no 
order, but saw the left of the regiment retreating on the 
double-quick. 

I therefore gave the order to fall back, finished bind- 
ing up the comrade's arm — I do not now recall his name 
— and started myself. I had gone but a short distance, 
however, when the order to halt came from the enemy 
on my left front. How quickl}'^ flashed through my 
mind the thought of a conversation held among my fel- 
low-officers but a few days before, when we were speak- 



1864.] PRISONERS-OF-VVAR. 565 

incr of the terrible stories we had heard of rebel prison 
life, and when we all said we would die game before we 
would be taken prisoners ! And one of our number, 
brave Captain Edgerly, of Company C, had, but a few 
days before, at the Battle of the Wilderness, given up 
his life rather than be captured. But for myself, seeing 
no way of escape, I surrendered. My captors closed in 
around me, and at once relieved me of my sword, belt, 
revolver, haversack, — which they seemed to prize as 
much as anything — watch and chain, pocket-book, and 
some forty dollars in greenbacks. They also took some 
photographs, which I begged them to return, as they 
were of no value to them ; but their reply was that I 
would not need them long, intimating that I would not 
live long to enjoy looking at them. 

After relieving me of everything but my canteen, one 
of their number escorted me to the rear. On our way 
to their line of works, but a few rods distant, I saw what 
I had never seen done by our men. Soldiers, possibly 
detailed for the purpose, — it occurred to me then that this 
was the case — were going over the field, picking up every 
abandoned musket, as well as everything else left by our 
men ; and when, soon after, I passed over their two 
lines of earthworks, full of rebel soldiers, I saw, as a result 
of this diligent research, more muskets and cartridge boxes 
than there were men. I realized then, as never before, 
the earnestness with which the war was being carried on 
by the South, contrasting it, at the same time, with the 
indifference which some Federals manifested, even in 
the care of their own equipments. 

No words can express my feelings as we passed 
through their lines, seeing no hope of escape and hear- 
intr from either side such words as these : " Kill the d — d 



566 NINTH NEIV HAMPSHIRE. [May, 

Yankee! We have no use for him." Passing on, we 
soon met a rebel surgeon, who said, "Good morning, 
Lieutenant ; you have a nice rubber coat, and I am sure 
it will fit me." It was a good coat, as good as any in 
the market at that time, and had but recently been sent 
me by an uncle in Boston, so I quietly replied that my 
coat was private property and all I had to protect me 
from the weather. Before I could say more he com- 
manded me to come out of it at once, which I did. Then 
he handed me his rubber poncho blanket. Remarking 
that I concluded this treatment was a specimen of South- 
ern chivalry, he replied, " Close your mouth, sir, if 3'ou 
desire to live ! " 

About one hundred rods farther to the rear we joined a 
large squad of other captured Union officers, and there 
my escort left me, surrounded by a strong guard. We 
were not then out of reach of the shells from our own 
guns, and one of our number was severely wounded. 
Just at night we were moved farther back, where we 
joined a large body of other prisoners. It had rained 
hard all da3S and I had had nothing to eat since the 
night before. Hungry, wet, and cold, we lay down on 
the grass to rest. What a blessing it was that that group 
of more than a thousand prisoners, amid their present 
discomforts and sufferings, did not know of the more ter- 
rible sufferings that were in store for them in the rebel 
prison-hells, farther south, for days, weeks, and months ! 

Not until the next morning. May 13, did I know that 
any of my regiment besides myself had been captured, but 
I suffered mentally not a little from that supposed fact. 
Meeting one of my men in the crowd, we soon found the 
rest, and I then took down their names and companies, 
and found that there were sixty-three of us in all. I have 



1864.] PRISONERS-OF-WAR. 567 

the original roster yet, a copy of which is appended to 
this article. Nearly all died from exposure and starva- 
tion in rebel prisons, and only a few lived to return to 
" God's country " at the close of the war ; but there is no 
class of men whose hands I am more glad to clasp than 
of those who have suffered more than words can express. 

We were soon separated, the officers being put in a 
squad together, apart from the enlisted men. About 
three o'clock in the afternoon of the 13th, rations of one 
pint of flour and one quarter of a pound of pork per man 
were issued. We could cook the pork ; but what could 
we do with the flour? This question was soon answered 
by the rebel guard ; he also having flour, made it into 
dough by mixing with water without salt, wound it 
around a long stick, and held it over the fire until 
baked. The reader will never know just how good such 
a meal is until he tries it after severe fatigue and sufler- 
ing, such as we had experienced for nearly forty-eight 
hours. 

We started on the march for Gordonsville, Va., that 
afternoon, Captain Brown of the Thirty-ninth Virginia 
being in command. The officers formed the right, and the 
enlisted men the rear, of the column. There were thirty- 
eight Union officers, and over a thousand enlisted men. 
Following are the names of some of the officers who 
were my companions on that memorable southern excur- 
sion : Colonel Brown, One Hundred and Forty -fifth 
Pennsylvania ; Colonel Swift, Seventeenth Michigan ; 
Lieutenant-Colonel Hickenbottom, Sixty-fifth New York ; 
Lieutenant-Colonel Rice, Nineteenth Massachusetts ; 
Lieutenant Barton, Forty-ninth Pennsylvania ; Lieuten- 
ant Crawford, One Hundred and Eighty-third Pennsyl- 
vania ; Captain Manley, Sixty-fourth New York ; Cap- 



568 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [May. 

tain Paul, assistant adjutant-general, General Baxter's 
staff; Captain Walpole, One Hundred and Twenty- 
second New York ; Lieutenants Stebbins and Rowe, 
Seventy-seventh New York ; Lieutenant Clark, Fifty- 
ninth New York ; Lieutenant Fay, Forty-second New 
York ; Captain Funk, Thirty-ninth New York ; Captain 
Krommeyer, Fifty-second New York ; Lieutenant 
Fowler, Fifteenth New Jersey ; Lieutenant Ferguson, 
First New Jersey ; Lieutenants Tilford, Kendall, Herbert, 
and Meyers, Fiftieth Pennsylvania. 

On the 14th three of us had one pint of flour between 
us, which we mixed with water only and fried into 
griddle-cakes. This was all we had for a day's ration. 
Our rebel commander, Captain Brown, was very gentle- 
manly toward us, but reports of the men behind us 
being bayoneted by the guard for not keeping up and 
for the slightest disobedience of orders, proved that the 
lives of their prisoners were of little account to them. 

Halting once opposite a large farm-house which stood 
some thirty rods from the main road, and obtaining per- 
mission from Captain Brown on a verbal parole of 
honor, a number of us went to the house to obtain food. 
Others would have gone, but they had no faith that " the 
milk of human kindness " would be on draught there, 
and the result showed their wisdom. We found only an 
old man and his wife, who gave us a very warm recep- 
tion, — not with food, however; in fact, quite the reverse. 
I can remember just how^ that gray-haired, old Virginia 
farmer looked when he replied, to our eager question- 
ing, — " Not a d — n crumb will I give you ! You d — n 
Yanks come down here to rob and murder us. You 
ought to starve, and I hope every d — n one of you will !" 
That ended our begging for food in Virginia. 



1864.] PRISONERS-OF-\VAR. 569 

We arrived at Gordonsville at noon of the 17th, and 
here we registered our names, — not at a hotel, but at the 
provost-marshal's office. Our captors did not seem to 
consider that after our long march we were hungry, for 
they issued only a small piece of corn-dodger, or bread, 
to a man. Oh, how we missed our old United States 
coffee ! We were ready to part with anything for food, 
and selling my pocket-knife for a five-dollar Confederate 
bill, I bought more bread. 

We left Gordonsville that afternoon, at six o'clock, by 
rail, and arrived in Lynchburg, Va., next morning (the 
jSth). The officers were quartered in a small, filthy 
room, on the third floor of a brick warehouse, the 
enlisted men being marched to a camp outside the city. 
At four o'clock that afternoon each man drew a small 
loaf of corn-dodger and a quarter of a pound of wormy 
bacon, similar rations being issued on the following day. 
Those who had greenbacks exchanged them for Confed- 
erate money at the rate of one dollar for five. Tin dip- 
pers could be bought for two dollars each, tow^els for 
eight dollars each, tooth-brushes three dollars, and a 
small cake of soap for three dollars. One of our number 
paid fifteen dollars in Confederate money for one pound 
of Yankee coffee. 

Obtaining writing-paper, I wrote my first letters to 
friends at home and to the regiment. Three more offi- 
cers joined us here, from General Sigel's command. A 
copy of the Richmond Enquirer was handed around, 
reporting that Grant's army had been badly beaten at 
the Battle of Spottsylvania Court-house, and had sus- 
tained a loss of 40,000 men. 

We left Lynchburg at eight o'clock on the evening of 
the 22d, arriving at Danville at ten o'clock the following 



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O NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [May, 



evening. The journey was made in a freight car, and 
as there were forty-three of us as passengers, we were so 
closely packed that all could not lie down at the same 
time. One door was left half-way open, two of the 
guard occupying the opening. The opposite door was 
closed tight and secure, and several of the guard were 
stationed on top of the car. 

We were suffering intensely from this overcrowded 
condition, and it was planned to reduce our number. 
Obtaining permission to place some old railroad ties in 
the centre of the car, between the guard and the oppo- 
site door, ostensibly to furnish us with more comfortable 
seats, but in reality to hide the work of those who were 
to use their pocket-knives in cutting a hole in the door 
large enough for a man to crawl through, a double quar- 
tette was detailed to sit on the railroad ties and take the 
lead in singing patriotic songs, while all others who 
could joined in, so as to drown the noise made by the 
cutting. This arrangement worked to a charm, and in 
about an hour, the train running not faster than fifteen 
or twenty miles an hour, five officers swung themselves 
into the outer darkness, and dropped their hold from 
their friends inside, to land they knew not where or 
how fortunately. 

Just as the last of the five dropped from the car, the 
train stopped at a station for wood and water, which they 
were obliged to do often, since they had nothing to burn 
but soft wood. We had stopped once before since the 
opening had been made, but had deceived the guard 
by hanging a rubber blanket over the hole, the blanket 
being near the color of the outside of the car. At every 
stop the rebel officer in charge would walk up and down 
each side of the train, to make sure everything was 



1 864.] FJilS ONERS - OF- IVAR. 5 7 1 

all right, and this time his vigilant eye caught sight 
of the opening. Instantly there was more swearing 
and threatening than the English language would be 
supposed capable of, and before starting again on our 
journey we were counted carefully, that the number of 
those who had made their escape might be ascertained. 
They could hardly control their rage, but at the same 
time congratulated themselves on their vigilance in 
preventing more of us from getting away, for they 
realized that, had we passed that station unobserved, 
nearly every man of us would have made his escape. 
The five officers were all recaptured soon afterwards, 
and rejoined us in the stockade prison at Macon, 
Georgia. 

While at Danville on the 24th, we drew another 
ration of a small loaf of corn-bread, bacon, and bean 
soup made of wormy beans and water. We were con- 
fident that there was no meat in the soup, except the 
worms, but as this was the first ration issued to us for 
forty-eight hours, none of it was wasted. We left Dan- 
ville at two o'clock on the afternoon of the 25th, under a 
much stronger guard, but with a little more room, as our 
number had been reduced to thirty-eight. Nothing of 
importance occurred as we travelled on through Greens- 
boro and Salisbury (N. C), and the train reached 
Charlotte (N. C.) at four o'clock in the afternoon of 
the 26th, where we remained over night. 

Learning from a colored man that there were many 
Union people here, a party of us, including Captain 
Paul, A. A. G., obtained a verbal parole, and made a 
short tour of the town, where we found some molasses 
and biscuit, a change from corn-bread and water. The 
biscuit cost two dollars per dozen, and the molasses five 



572 NlXril NEW HAMPSHIRE. [May, 

dollars a pint, and we were informed that only a limited 
quantity could be had even at that price. 

We arrived at Augusta, Ga., on the afternoon of the 
28th, where we found Captain Bradford, a son of ex- 
Governor Bradford of Maryland, acting as war provost- 
marshal of the city. He was a young man who put on 
more style in his dress and military bearing than any 
one we had seen thus far in the Confederacy. We left 
Augusta the following afternoon, guarded by the Au- 
gusta home guards, composed of old men and boys. 
We were well rid of our former vigilant guard, com- 
posed mostly of veterans, and now the situation seemed 
favorable for another break for liberty ; besides, we 
were getting nearer Sherman's lines. 

The same plans were formulated and carried out as 
were made when the tirst five made their escape, and 
there were more railroad ties, and more singing by the 
" choir," though our new guard objected to having so 
much Union music. They first protested, then ordered 
us to stop or they would shoot us. Their threats availed 
nothing, however, only to cause us to sing more and 
louder, until again a hole had been cut in the rear door. 
This time ten of the unwilling captives swung out and 
off the train into outer darkness ere we were again 
discovered, about forty miles from Macon, Ga. 

It was hoped that those who made their escape would 
in some way get through the lines and join Sherman's 
army at Atlanta, but all of them were hunted down by 
bloodhounds and brought into the stockade at Macon 
soon after. Some of these were badly bitten by the 
dogs, and almost lost their lives. This reminds me of 
what our old quartermaster, Lieut. William Pitt Moses, 
wrote in his first letter to me after my return from prison. 



1S64.] PRISONERS-OF-WAR. 573 

ReferrincT to the inhuman treatment our soldiers received 
while in rebel prisons, he said, "If the divil don't get 
them fellows, what is the use of having any divil?" 

We reached Macon, Ga., at six o'clock in the morn- 
ing, May 30, and by noon were at Andersonville, where 
the enlisted men were unloaded from the cars. We 
could see but little of the stockade from our car, which 
soon returned to Macon, where we arrived at four o'clock 
in the afternoon. After again being registered, we 
entered the stockade. None but those who have had 
such an experience can ever realize the reception given 
us as we passed through the big gate into the stockade. 
The wild cry came from hundreds of voices, "Fresh 
fish ! Fresh fish ! Fresh fish ! " This, we afterwards 
learned, meant new arrivals, and that cognomen was 
given us for the first six months. The next four months 
we were " suckers," the next two months " dry cods," 
and the balance of the time " dried herrings." After 
exchange, one was a " pickled sardine." 

Here we met those who had been confined in Libby, 
and recently transferred to this prison. Many of them 
had been prisoners for a year, and some for two years ; 
and they were a dirty, ragged, emaciated set of human 
beings. We wondered if we should remain long enough 
to be in that condition, and could but shudder at the 
thought as we looked at them. They pressed around us 
like cab-drivers at a railway station, asking all manner 
of questions, and offering to carry our luggage and to 
show^ us good quarters. Some of our number, who were 
fortunate in having their overcoats and blankets, w^ere 
glad to accept these generous offers, but soon regretted 
the misplaced confidence, for among twelve hundred 
fellow-sufferers they could find neither their new-made 



574 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [June, 

friends nor their luggage. Having nothing but my 
rubber poncho blanket and my canteen, I had little to 
lose and no favors to ask. Be it said, however, that 
these were exceptional cases, and, though the United 
States officers there confined were human and governed 
by the first law of nature, self-preservation, yet as a rule 
they were honorable gentlemen. 

Walking along towards the southern end of the prison 
with Captain Manley, we were invited to join with mess- 
mates occupying the south-east corner of the last shed 
on the south side, near the brook which ran diagonally 
across the south-west corner of the stockade, and from 
which all procured their water for cooking and washing. 

The following named officers composed our mess from 
that time until we were paroled in March, 1865 : Capt. 
B. G. Casler, One Hundred and Fifty-fourth New 
York ; Lieut. Edward T. McCutcheon, Sixty-fourth New 
York; Capt. J. A. Manley, Sixtj^-fourth New York; 
Lieut. Samuel N. Hedges, One Hundred and Twelfth 
New York, and myself. Lieut. John. K. Duren, of the 
Fifth New Hampshire, who was captured at Cold Har- 
bor, joined us on the 14th of June. He also remained 
with us until we returned to "God's country." We had 
been acquaintances in Keene, N. H., before the war, 
and he insisted on my sharing his woollen blanket, so 
that we bunked together ever after. He was the life and 
good cheer of the mess, and no better companion and 
friend graced the army. To-day, of that " family," our 
old mess, only Lieutenants McCutcheon and Hedges 
and the writer are living. 

Capt. W. K. Tabb, of General Winder's staff, was in 
command of the prison, and he was no lover of the 
Yankees or their institutions. Nearly every state in the 



1864.] PRISONERS-OF-WAR. 575 

Union, except those in the extreme south, was repre- 
sented in this crowd of twelve hundred United States offi- 
cers. Brigadier-General Wesseles was the senior Union 
officer inside, and through him all orders and communi- 
cations had to pass to the rebel commander. Soon after 
my arrival I found Gen. Walter Harriman (then 
Colonel), of the Eleventh New Hampshire, who had 
been captured at the Battle of the Wilderness May 5 ; 
also Capt. S. F. Murray, of the First New Hampshire 
Berdan sharpshooters. Brigadier-Generals Neal Dow 
and O. P. Scanneron were also with us. 

Camp Oglethorpe, our stockade, was built in the same 
way as the one in Andersonville, having inside a large 
one-story tobacco warehouse, in which the field officers 
were quartered. Besides this there were long, open 
sheds, accommodating about one half the number of 
prisoners, the rest having the canopy of heaven as their 
only shelter. The stockade was situated on the south- 
east side of the city, near the railroad round-house. 
Visiting there two years ago, I found railroad tracks and 
freight-houses covering the northerly part of the ground, 
but could easily point out the lines of the stockade on the 
south and east sides, where the brook, trees, and surface 
of the ground were practically the same as when we 
were there in 1864. 

Two of our messmates were " old-timers." They 
were captured at Gettysburg in 1863, and had been 
through Libby prison and all its vicissitudes. This was 
of great value to us " fresh fish." We drew our rations 
once in five days. One pint of corn meal, one ounce of 
beans or peas, one quarter tablespoonful of salt, and one 
quarter pound of pork, per man, made up a day's ration. 
We soon learned that putting all our rations together, 



576 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [June, 

dividing them into five equal parts, and eating one fifth 
each day, was better than eating it all in three days 
(which we could do easily), or better than each one 
drawing his rations separately. As to the culinar}' uten- 
sils belonging to our mess, we were in " light marching 
order," though much better off than many others : every 
one borrowed of his neighbor when his turn came to cook 
and eat. We had a piece of the top of an old stove 
about a foot square, one side of which we polished with 
sand, on which we used to fry griddle-cakes. When we 
were not using it somebody else was, and it served us to 
the end. My own personal kit consisted of one spoon, a 
canteen, half a canteen which did duty as a " plate," 
and a small tin can. 

We could call our rations little else than a diet of 
worms, for the beans and bacon were wormy, and the 
carn-meal was often sour. Even with this poor fare we 
would have been better satisfied had the quantity been 
sufficient. Our daily routine of life was to cook, eat, 
and wash. We had a copy of the Bible and a pack of 
cards, and to kill time we alternated between reading 
the one and playing with the other, — when not hunting 
in the seams of our clothing for " gray-backs." This 
latter duty was imperative, for the very ground seemed 
alive with the vermin. Those June days were long and 
very hot, but the nights were cool and refreshing. 

On June lo, fifty officers, comprising Brigadier-Gen- 
erals Wesseles, Shaler, Seymour, Heckman, and 
Scanneron, with twenty-five colonels, including Harri- 
man of the Eleventh New Hampshire, eleven lieutenant- 
colonels, and nine majors, left for Charleston, S. C, 
ostensibly for parole or exchange, but in reality to be 
placed in the exposed part of the city, under the fire of 




Lieut. William S. Pillsbury, Co. A. 



1864.] PRISONERS-OF -WAR. 577 

our own guns from Morris island, which were constantly 
shelling the doomed city. The plan did not work as the 
rebel authorities expected, however, and these officers 
were soon exchanged. 

Special and general orders for our good behavior and 
obedience were posted up inside the stockade. One of 
these orders, or rules, was to the effect that a guard who 
shot a Union prisoner for disobeying any one rule of the 
prison would receive a furlough of thirty days. Another 
was, that if any one attempted to cross the " dead line," 
which consisted of a row of stakes driven into the ground 
a few feet apart, and ten feet inside the stockade, he 
would be called by the guard to halt in the daytime, but 
after dark would be fired at without any warning. On 
June II, Lieut. Otto Grierson, of the Forty-fifth New 
York, went down to the brook for water after sundown, 
but before dark. He was nearly or quite alone, though 
scores of men were but a few feet away (it was the 
hour when many went for water), and no one perceived 
that he was violating any rule of the prison, yet he was 
shot down by the guard, and died the next morning, 
asserting his innocence of offence to the last. This was 
nothing less than cold-blooded murder. It caused great 
excitement and apprehension inside. The rebel authori- 
ties did nothing about it, and as we saw nothing more of 
the guard who had fired the shot, we concluded that he 
obtained his thirty-days furlough. 

We had "mugwumps" there wearing blue uniforms, 
and one of them reported to the commandant that we 
were organizing for a grand stampede and break for 
liberty. This was false, but it caused a doubling of the 
guard and the manning of the two howitzers located at 
the north-west and south-east corners of the stockade. 

XXXVII 



578 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [June, 

There were fresh arrivals from Grant's and Sherman's 
armies almost daily, and these served in a measure to 
relieve the dull monotony of prison life. My diary says 
that on the 20th of June our number had increased to 
1,300. On the above date forty-four officers, and on the 
23d nineteen more, came in, having been captured on 
General Sturgis's expedition, near Ripley, Miss., by 
General Forrest. On the 22d of June a Catholic priest 
came in to say mass to those of that faith. He had just 
come from Andersonville prison, the condition of which 
he denounced as simply barbarous, reporting that there 
were 25,000 of our men huddled together in a small 
enclosure, and that they were dying at the rate of sev- 
enty-five per day. On the 24th Lieut. O. W. Dimmick, 
of the Eleventh New Hampshire, came in as a " fresh 
fish," having been captured on the 17th, in front of 
Petersburg, with twenty-two other officers, who came in 
at the same time. 

As before mentioned, we were with the old Libbyites, 
and a large number of Colonel Strait's same old "tun- 
nel crowd" were there also. Soon after our arrival tun- 
nels were commenced, with a view to having them com- 
pleted ready for escape on Jul}'^ 3. Three tunnels were 
opened — one on the east, one on the north, and one on 
the west side. The entrance to the last was in the shed 
of our mess, under one of the bunks near my own, so 
that I knew what was going on, and frequently at night 
was watching for the rebel guard, who was liable to 
come in at any time. 

These sheds were long and narrow ; only the roof was 
covered, and that with slabs. They were wide enough 
for two rows of bunks, each of which had the head 
toward the centre, and occupied the space of 6 x 2 feet. 



1864.] PRISONERS-OF -WAR. 579 

The bunks were one foot apart, and were made by 
driving four crotched posts into the ground, placing a 
stick across each end, and then laying poles about six 
feet long across the sticks. With only a blanket one 
could not make a very soft and downy couch, yet it was 
far preferable to lying on the ground. 

The tunnels were started under these bunks, and thus 
were more easily hidden from the watchful eyes of the 
rebel officers and guards. We had no modern tools to 
lighten the labor. There was nothing but case-knives 
and spoons to dig with ; bags and ropes, made from 
meal-bags stolen from our rebel commissary, were used 
to haul out the dirt. The excavations were begun by 
sinking a perpendicular shaft for about five feet, which 
was extended parallel to the surface, or nearly so, towards 
and under the stockade. In each case, they reached the 
surface again under a tobacco warehouse, which stood 
a short distance outside. Competent engineers among 
our number took very accurate measurements of the 
distance to be dug, both inside and out, as well of the 
progress each night. The dirt was hauled out by tying 
a bag on an endless rope. The progress was slow 
necessarily, though it was easy digging. Had we pushed 
the work faster, we would have been more liable to 
detection. The greatest problem was how to dispose of 
the dirt. This was accomplished by mixing it with the 
sweepings of the camp ; — the litter and refuse were gath- 
ered in piles each day, and about twice a week a mule 
tip-cart, with a colored man for a driver, came in and 
carted them out. The tunnels were made as small as 
possible. Only one man was able to work at a time, 
and he lying down flat. No one could work long, as we 
had no means of pumping in fresh air. The farther in 



5 8o NINTH NE W HA MPS HIRE. [June, 

we got, the more difficult the work became, and the more 
time it required. Words can never express the labor 
and suffering those tunnels cost. 

Steadily and patiently the work went on, until the 26th 
of June, when two of the tunnels were ready to open at 
the farther end. It was then planned to organize by 
squads, and to be ready to go out on the night of the 3d 
of July. On the 27th of June, Captain Tabb came in 
and ordered us all out of our quarters and to the south 
end of the stockade. At that time the entrances to the 
tunnels were covered with boards and loose earth, so that 
no one could detect their location by looking at the sur- 
face of the ground ; but by jabbing around with his 
sword. Captain Tabb was not long in locating all three. 
We were then allowed to return to our quarters. Our 
feelings of disappointment can be better imagined than 
described. It was evident that this was the work of 
another " mugwump," or Judas, and could he have been 
detected his body would have been cut into a thousand 
pieces. 

Soon after, the lieutenant of the guard came in with a 
detail to see to the filling up of the tunnel openings. A 
captain of the Eighteenth Connecticut was ordered to 
assist in the work of filling. He refused to do such 
menial service, and the rebel lieutenant threatened to 
shoot him if he did not comply. Great excitment pre- 
vailed. Several officers of the' Eighteenth stood close at 
hand with billets of wood, ready to avenge their com- 
rade's death. The captain was firm. He did not move, 
but looking the lieutenant square in the eye, dared him 
to shoot. The Confederate officer's southern blood was 
up. Knowing that he was in the wrong he did not fire, 
but ordered the guard to take the captain outside, where 



1864.] PRISONERS-OF-WAR. 58 1 

he was put into a dungeon and bucked and gagged. 
This outrafje was soon known, and was communicated 
to our ranking officer inside, who, as I remember, was 
Colonel Thorpe, of the First New York dragoons. On 
learning the facts, he at once sent for the commandant, 
Captain Tabb, who was ordered to release and return 
the officer at once, and at the same time reminded, that 
unless the demand was complied with, retaliation upon 
rebel officers held in northern prisons would surely fol- 
low. The captain was at once released, and as he 
passed through the office the rebel lieutenant met him, 
and, apologizing, offered him a drink of whiskey. To 
this the captain replied, "No, sir; I never knowingly 

drank with a coward, and I '11 be d d if I will now ! " 

I record this incident to show the sterling metal of which 
some of our Union officers were made. 

July 4, Independence day, came, and although un- 
armed, and surrounded by an armed mob of the rebel 
army in the heart of the Confederacy, we decided to 
have a little celebration on our own account. About 
nine o'clock that forenoon we assembled in and around 
the warehouse. There was not even standing-room for 
all, but the writer was fortunate enough to be among 
those inside. Two small United States flags, about 4x6 
inches, constituted all of the National emblem that we 
had to display, and these were placed above the north 
and south doors, where all could see them. The exer- 
cises opened with prayer by one of the chaplains. Then 
followed national and patriotic songs, and as I recall the 
faces of that assembly of hapless captives, I can see the 
tears rolling down their cheeks, some who had been 
long in prison breaking completely down, unable to con- 
trol their emotions. As I remember it, this must have 



582 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [July, 

been the most sincerely patriotic Fourth of July celebra- 
tion that I have ever witnessed. Before much oratory 
had been indulged in, however, our celebration was cut 
short by the sudden appearance of our rebel keeper, 
Captain Tabb. Colonel Thorpe was about speaking 
when Captain Tabb, with drawn sword and his face 
white with rage, said, — " Stop this ! You Yankees can't 
celebrate this da}'^ in Georgia. Every man of you go to 
your quarters ! " Much talk and guying was indulged 
in, but our celebration of the glorious Fourth was ended. 
I w^as quite ill for some days after this, and my diary 
is incomplete until the 27th of July. In the mean while 
General Stoneman, from General Sherman's army at 
Atlanta, Ga., had made a raid on the city for the purpose 
of recapturing us, but was defeated and himself taken 
prisoner. 

On the loth of July one hundred and eleven officers 
from Grant's army, and six from Sherman's army, came 
in as prisoners, while 1,700 privates passed through the 
city on their way to Andersonville. Great excitement 
prevailed in the city on account of Sherman's raid, as we 
learned from the colored men who came in on duty, and 
from some of the guard who were good Union men at 
heart and who w^ould give us the tip when sure that it 
was safe for them to do so. Nearly every issue of the 
Macon Telegrap/i , a most bitter Secesh sheet, making 
many false and absurd statements to keep up a bold 
front, was also smuggled in to us. 

The authorities, fearing another raid for our rescue, 
commenced transporting us, on the 27th, to Charleston, 
S. C, and Savannah, Ga. Six hundred left on the 29th, 
and were taken to Savannah, the rest going to Charles- 
ton. We were loaded into freight cars, there being 



1864.] PRISONERS-OF-IVAR. 583 

forty-six in our car. The weather was very hot, and we 
should have suffered much had the journey been long. 
Many were ill, but the "Johnny rebs" never started on an 
excursion with a more jolly crowd. We had a vain hope 
that Sherman's cavalry would cut the railroad, but, as we 
had not yet suffered enough for the cause, that night 
found us in the city of Savannah. 

We w^ere placed in the yard of the old United States 
marine hospital, the three acres of ground being enclosed 
by a high brick wall, while the guard was stationed on a 
staging erected near the top and on the outer side. The 
weather was intensely hot, and the brick walls surround- 
ing the yard not only added to the heat, but also kept out 
what little air might be stirring. Colonel Wayne, of the 
First Georgia, was the commandant. He was very 
much of a gentleman, and stated at once that while under 
his command we should have enough to eat and be made 
as comfortable as possible. He fulfilled his promise by 
first issuing one hundred A tents, — a tent to every six 
men. Besides giving us corn-meal, he placed a hogs- 
head of rice where we could help ourselves, and every 
morning, at six o'clock, he issued a pound of fresh beef 
to each man. 

Seventy-five of the 600 who were the last to leave 
Macon, made their escape. August i the railroad over 
which they and ourselves had passed, was torn up and 
the bridges burned by Sherman's cavalry, showing how 
near we came to joining that army. 

Notwithstanding our relatively comfortable condition, 
so much improved over that at Macon, plans for escap- 
ing were at once commenced, and two tunnels were 
nearly completed when, on August 8, a cow broke 
through one of them and our plans were exposed. No 



584 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [September, 

further attempt was made to escape while we were at 
Savannah. Several officers died there, and I would not 
neglect to mention the loyalty and kindness displayed by 
the matron of the hospital, whose husband was not only 
true to the flag, but was serving in the field under Sher- 
man. Unlike the hundreds who were dumped into a 
hole and covered with a little earth, without even a 
blanket for a robe, each one who died at Savannah was 
furnished with a coffin by this noble lady at her own 
expense. 

Colonel Wayne not onl}' furnished cooking utensils, 
but allowed lime and brick to be brought in, so that a 
number of nice ovens were built, adding much to our 
comfort and convenience. My own mess was especially 
favored here, for Captain Casler was appointed sutler 
inside the prison. In every prison sutlers were allowed, 
of whom we could purchase meats, vegetables, and 
groceries, — if we had money, and enough of it. By 
this means we managed to exchange our corn-meal at 
twenty-five cents per quart for potatoes at twenty-four 
dollars per bushel, and for flour at one dollar and fifty 
cents per pound. Books were obtained, and we passed 
more time in reading than in playing cards. 

September 2 the surgeons and chaplains left for 
exchange. On the 12th, news reached us that an arm- 
istice of ten days had been agreed upon between the 
armies of Sherman and Hood, commencing that morn- 
ing, and it was also reported that a general exchange of 
prisoners would be made in a few days ; but only the 
"fresh fish" took any stock in such reports, notwith- 
standing orders were also received for us to be ready to 
leave for Charleston, S. C, the next morning. 

We arrived there on the afternoon of the 13th. On 



1864.] PRISONERS-OF-WAR. 585 

our free ride from Savannah to Charleston, in freight 
cars, we were guarded by the Georgia state miHtia, or 
" home guards," who were not soldiers in any sense 
except that they carried muskets and seemed anxious for 
an opportunity to use them. Owing to their familiarity 
with Sherman and his " bummers," who were coming 
nearer every day, they took advantage of this occasion 
to abuse us in every way possible. Arriving at Charles- 
ton, we were marched into the city jail-yard, containing 
less than an acre and surrounded by a brick wall twelve 
feet high, a place which we found in the most filthy con- 
dition possible. The jail and work-house occupied the 
north side, next to the street. Enough A tents to accom- 
modate 200 out of the 600 prisoners were issued. 

Besides the filth, owing to bad or no drainage, we 
were often flooded when it rained. Our only water, 
which was very brackish, was from an artesian well. 
Captain Mobley, of the Thirty-second Georgia, was in 
command. The first 600 who left Macon occupied 
Roper hospital, near by, and the squad that had left last 
occupied the north wing of the jail. From our quarters 
we were able to communicate with the latter. Our 
rations here were no better than our quarters, and this 
made the change from Savannah seem still worse. They 
consisted of corn-meal, rice, wormy beans and wormy 
bacon, with occasionally a small quantity of flour. The 
only utensils given us were a few iron kettles ; but our 
men had toted our piece of old stove-top along, hence we 
could fry griddle-cakes when we had fuel. At one time 
we were four days without wood. 

The only pleasure and recreation that we had was 
obtained from watching the shells as they came, almost 
continuously, from the Federal guns on Morris island. 



586 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [September, 

In the daytime, as well as by night, we could see the 
fiery fuses, looking like big comets, coming directly 
towards us. As the gunners on the island knew our 
location, few pieces of shell struck in the yard or on the 
jail, and no one there was injured, though other build- 
ings were set on fire nearly every day and night. On 
one occasion, the i8th, the buildings across the street 
from us were ablaze. The cit}^ fire department was on 
hand to extinguish the flames, but our gunners dropped 
their shells so near and last that the firemen were driven 
away, and it was reported that thirty buildings were 
destroyed. The cursing on the outside, and the cheer- 
ing and singing by " we-uns " on the inside, of the 
prison, made it a night never to be forgotten. 

On the 22d, Gen. B. F. Butler's letter on the exchange 
of prisoners, in which he stated that there could be no 
exchange unless the colored soldiers were included, was 
published in the Charleston Alercury. These terms 
were bitterly denounced by the Merctity, as well as by 
the whole Confederate government, but nearly every 
officer in our prison sustained the general, who at that 
time was their commissioner of exchancje. 

On tlie 26th, about sixt}' out of the 600, including 
my own mess of six, were transferred to the work-house, 
or jail, about 200 more were paroled and sent over to 
the Roper and Marine hospitals, eighty-six were sent 
down to Broad street, and the remainder kept in the 
yard. Lieutenant Duren and myself occupied the south 
end cell, on the west side, in the second story of the cor- 
ridor, the remaining four of our mess being placed on 
the floor below. This cell was of solid masonry, with a 
heavy, iron-grating door. Fortunately the turnkey 
never came around, and we were allowed to go in and 



1 864-] PRISONERS-OF-WAK. 587 

out at will, as did all others, and once a day we were 
permitted to stay in the yard an hour. We missed the 
pleasure of watching the shells come over from Morris 
island, but otherwise were much better provided for than 
at our old quarters, being out of the hot midday sun, as 
well as the wet and filth, so that we could keep compara- 
tively clean, and were less troubled with " gray-backs." 
The sanitary accommodations of both the yard and jail, 
however, were little better than are usually given to dumb 
animals. 

We had many good jolly comrades with us at all times, 
who could make life endurable even under the most 
adverse circumstances. It was here that I first became 
acquainted with Lieut. W. A. McGinnis, of the Nine- 
teenth Massachusetts, whose genuine Irish wit and 
humor would cause the most forlorn to laugh through 
his tears. 

On the 27th of September we read Jeff" Davis's speech 
on the " Situation and Condition of the Two Opposing, 
Rebel and Union, Forces," published in the Charleston 
Mercury of that date, having been delivered in Macon, 
Ga., the day before. In its editorial the Mercury called 
it a slim affair, and charged him with misrepresenting 
the facts. On the same date General Stoneman left us 
for exchange. On the 29th a blockade runner came 
into prison and offered to exchange rebel money for bills 
of exchange on United States paymasters. United States 
banks, or business firms in the North, offering two 
dollars for one, in rebel money, on the face value. At 
that time thirty dollars in rebel money was worth only 
one dollar in greenbacks, yet nearly all accepted this 
opportunity of bettering their condition, even if it did 
come high. We were then paying in rebel money the 



588 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [September, 

following prices : One peck of potatoes, eleven dollars ; 
eggs, six dollars per dozen; milk, one dollar and fifty 
cents per quart; soda, eight dollars per pound; bread, 
one dollar and twenty-five cents per small loaf; onions, 
fifty cents each ; and molasses, six dollars per quart. 

I made out a power of attorney on a United States 
paymaster for fifty dollars, receiving therefor one hun- 
dred dollars in Confederate money. Lieutenant Duren 
gave me his note for twenty-five dollars as a guaranty 
of his share of the venture, and I think it was Captain 
Casler who gave a bill of exchange for a like amount. 
We might just as well have doubled or tripled the 
amount, but rumors were current that a general ex- 
change was near at hand, in which case we did not care 
to have a great amount of Confederate notes on our 
hands, at that price. How much we afterwards regretted 
one of our greatest mistakes, the reader will imagine on 
reading of our experience of five months more of prison 
life. I remember inquiring of the blockade runner 
(whose name I do not find recorded) how much of the 
paper he expected to run through the blockade and col- 
lect. His reply was, "All of it; and if we collect one 
fourth of the face values, our profits will be quite satis- 
factory," intimating that the rebel money had cost but 
little. 

We soon after learned, through legal counsel among 
our number, that he could not legally collect a dollar. 
About two months after my discharge from the army, 
and after I had settled my accounts with the United 
States government, I received a notice from a lawyer 
in New York to the effect that he held my power of 
attorney on a United States paymaster, and wanted 
to know the name of the paymaster whom he should 



1864.] PRISONERS-OF-WAR. 589 

draw on. To this I have never repHed, and to this 
day my only regret is that we did not obtain a much 
larger amount. I still hold the note against Duren, 
which I prize as a relic, and which is not on the market 
at any price. 

The next day, which was the 30th of September, all 
the navy officers left for exchange. On the following 
day one of the colored prisoners, who had been placed 
in the west wing of the prison, was shot in a most brutal 
manner for no other offence than looking out of the 
window. They said that he was " only a nigger," yet 
the officers who were with us, and who had been confined 
in Libby prison, alleged that they had been shot at for 
the same offence. Fortunately our own location in the 
corridors was so far from the outside windows that we 
could give the guard no opportunity to shoot. In fact, 
we saw very little of the rebel guard, or of the outside 
world in general. 

Although not exposed to the weather, the close con- 
finement in this dark, damp, dungeon-like place, with 
the poorest kind of rations and not half enough of them, 
began to tell on our spirits and on our health as well. 
"Yellow Jack" had also been making himself known 
inside the jail, although not to such an alarming extent 
as outside, and the order to be ready to leave with one 
day's cooked rations was received with far greater re- 
joicing than the reader can imagine. October 5, at four 
o'clock in the morning, we left the jail and marched to 
the depot, where we took the train for Columbia, S. C. 
How glorious it was to find ourselves in the open fresh 
air ! But what sights met our eyes on either hand ! 
Buildings were knocked to pieces by shot and shell, 
while many had been burned ; and with the exception of 



590 NINTH iXEW HAMPSHIRE. [October, 

a few colored people and rebel soldiers, the city seemed 
deserted. In man}'^ of the streets through which we 
passed we saw the grass growing up through the pave- 
ments, proving that the prostration of the life and busi- 
ness of the city had not been of recent date. 

Visiting the city again in 1890, I saw a great change 
in its looks and appearance. On going to my old quar- 
ters in the jail, I found the yard and outside of the build- 
ings the same as when I was lodged therein in 1864. 
The inside, however, had been wholly remodelled, and 
was fitted up with more modern improvements than in 
our day. One thing that I missed, and which I have not 
before mentioned, was the old gallows, which formerly 
stood on the south side, within the yard ; this had been 
removed. 

How often we have heard it said, both during and 
since the war, "The negro is no good!" Yet in 1890 
the jailer, who was too ill to be on duty, was the only 
white officer. The officer in charge, and all the others, 
were colored ; and this was not by any means an iso- 
lated case, as I learned by travelling through the South. 
I was more impressed then than ever before, with the 
thought that no race of people, after years of slavery and 
bondage, would have made much better progress towards 
caring for themselves under like circumstances. 

Arriving at Columbia, on the morning of October 6, 
1864, we were corralled in the depot yard, and guarded 
by the Columbia cadets. Words fail to express our 
sufferings as we huddled together in that small space, 
with no shelter from the continuous rain, and with noth- 
ing to eat until the morning of the yth except what was 
left from the one day's ration issued on the night of the 
4th. That morning Lieuts. E. B. Parker and H. R. 



1864.] PRISONERS-OF-WAR. 591 

Chase, of the First Vermont heavy artillery, were brought 
in, having been captured after making their escape, 
with about one hundred others, on the way from Charles- 
ton. Both had been badly bitten by bloodhounds, from 
the effects of which Parker died on the 13th. The rebels 
maintained that he died of yellow-fever, and it is no 
wonder they desired to make it appear that such was the 
case. 

That same day (the 7th) in the afternoon we were 
marched across the Congaree river, and two miles west 
of the city, to Camp Sorghum, where we camped in an 
open field, occupying about four acres and bounded on 
two sides, west and south, by second-growth pine timber. 
We were surrounded by a strong guard of the Thirty- 
second Georgia. Stakes, driven into the ground ten 
feet inside the guard line, formed what was called the 
" dead line," with stricter orders against transgressing 
than at Macon. We had no shelter, except what we 
made ourselves from brush and pine boughs. They gave 
us neither ax, spade, shovel, nor cooking utensils. The 
latter we had little use for, however, since they issued for 
a day's ration only one pint of corn-meal, ground cob and 
all, one gill of sorghum, a teaspoonful of salt, and a very 
small piece of soap. Not a mouthful of meat was dealt 
out for one hundred and thirty days, and that, too, at a 
time of the year when we most needed it. How we 
wished that we had our old commandant. Colonel Wayne, 
who fed us so generously when in Savannah ! 

October 8 several of the officers received boxes of 
clothing, etc., from home, and there was also a box from 
the Sanitary commission, containing shirts, drawers, 
quilts, towels, and handkerchiefs, which were distributed 
among the most needy. All the boxes had been opened 



592 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [October, 

by the rebel officer in charge, and many had been rifled 
of the most valuable articles of clothing. 

Of the lOO officers who escaped when coming 
from Charleston, almost all were recaptured, being 
brought in in squads nearly every day. Several died 
here of yellow-fever, but the open air and frosty nights 
soon froze it out. October 20 eight axes and eight 
shovels were issued for the 1,500 of us to use. The 
reader can imagine how busily those axes were kept at 
work, from early morn until dark, in obtaining wood for 
fuel and shelter. Still, we so arranged it among our- 
selves that there was no quarrelling or faultfinding. 

At first the guard line was extended for an hour each 
day, but the distance soon became so great that they 
would allow four and six to go out with one guard. 
Taking advantage of this, some would run for dear 
life, while others would capture the guard and start for 
Sherman's lines. Then they commenced paroling us, 
and these paroles were copied and forged, and escapes 
were of e very-day occurrence. Below is a form of the 
parole issued : 

Confederate States Military Prison. 

October 15, 1864. 

I, , prisoner-of-war, confined near the city of Colum- 
bia, S. C, Confederate States of America, do pledge my parole, as a 
military man and a man of honor, that I will not attempt to escape from 
the prison aurhorities, nor pass beyond the prison limits more than three 
quarters of a mile, and at the expiration of the time named in the parole 
[six hours] I will return promptly to the adjutant's office and have the 
same revoked. 

It is understood by me that this parole is voluntary on my part, and 
that it is given with a view to securing privileges which cannot other- 
wise be obtained. 

[Signed] 




Harry Hale (Orin Varney), Co. K. 



1S64.] PRISONERS -OF-IVAR. 593 

The cold weather was fast approaching, and death 
from starvation and exposure was staring us in the face. 
We had no rest nights, when we could barely keep warm 
by walking. Sleep was obtained only by day, as the 
heat of the sun gave opportunity. Many were too sick 
or too feeble to attempt an escape, but those who were 
able ran the risk of being shot by the guards, while they 
crawled up near the dead line and behind some of the 
huts, where a squad of four, six, or more, would wait for 
an opportune moment, when one of their number would 
volunteer to rush in between the guards and draw their 
fire. The remainder would then run for liberty and 
" God's country," with clubs in their hands to ward off 
a bayonet charge. Some of us were always posted as 
to the number who had made their escape each day 
and night, so as to make the count good at the roll-call 
which came every morning at eight o'clock. The rebel 
authorities knew, or thought they knew, by this roll-call 
how many had made their escape, but they got badly 
mixed sometimes in their count, from the fact that manv 
were captured and returned. 

The weather was so cold, and we were so very thinly 
clad, that we were drawn up in line by fours, and as fast 
as those on the right of the line were counted they were 
allowed to break ranks and return to quarters. Then 
about the same number as had escaped would form on 
the left, and be again counted. This trick worked well 
until on one cold morning (November 6) we were 
ordered to remain in line until all were counted. Our 
captors then learned that three hundred and twenty were 
missing, leaving eleven hundred and forty-seven in camp. 
Of course they were mad, but they could only call it "■ a 
d d Yankee trick." They afterwards made us all 

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594 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [November, 

Stand in line until counted, but this did not stop our offi- 
cers from running the dead line and the risk of being 
shot, for nearly every night two or more would escape. 
Quite a number were hit, but I have no record of any 
one being killed or mortally wounded. Many of those 
who had been recaptured made their escape again, some 
not remaining inside the camp more than one night. My 
friend, Lieut. D. C. Edwards of the One Hundred and 
Third Pennsylvania, and O. M. McCall of the Second 
Maryland, with pieces of blanket tied on their feet in 
place of shoes, were among the lucky ones. I was too 
ill to even make the attempt, but listened to many thrill- 
ing adventures of those who had tried and been re- 
captured. Generally the escapers fared better outside 
the prison than they did inside, for the colored people 
were always ready to divide their last morsel of food, 
and ran great risk of losing their own lives in procuring 
food and in piloting the fugitives to safe hiding-places. 

No more loyal people ever lived than these same 
colored people who assisted Union officers in getting 
through to our lines. Although they had been in bond- 
age as slaves since their birth, knowing little except to 
obey their masters, I have never learned of a single 
instance where they betrayed the trust reposed in them. 
When Union officers were secreted in their houses, which 
were usually located near those of their masters, they 
would, when threatened, deny all knowledge of any 
strangers being about their premises. I will relate only 
one instance to show their devotion to our cause : 

A party of escaped prisoners had reached a town not 
safe to pass through, and hemmed in on either side by 
a dense forest and swamp. They could hear the barking 
of the bloodhounds who were following on their tracks, 



1864.] PRISONERS-OF-IVAR. 595 

and presently they saw a colored man approaching them, 
bridle in hand, to catch a horse. They were on the edge 
of the woods, and as they gave a low whistle to him, he 
first looked cautiously around to see if any one were in 
sight, and then came to them. "Law sakes, massa !" 
he exclaimed, "• De whole town be out huntin' you-uns, 
and massa done send me arter this 'ere hoss so he kin go 
too. Duz you hear them 'ere hounds? Well, them be 
fer you. Massa kill me, shuah, if I don' fetch this 'ere 
hoss quick, but I 'se gwine ter show you where ter go ter 
fin' 'nother cullud man [giving his name] on t'other side 
the swamp, an' he'll show you-uns furder on." He 
piloted them through the swamp, and then returned for 
the horse. The party was afterwards overtaken, but the 
officer who related to myself and others this instance of 
the fidelity of our colored allies said, " I have always 
been a Democrat, and naturally a nigger-hater, but 
henceforth I will allow no one to abuse him by word or 
deed in my presence, for no white man has dared to do 
or sacrifice more for his brother than these colored peo- 
ple who have fed and protected us." 

On the 7th fifteen of the recaptured officers were 
brought in, some of them barefooted, and with what 
little clothing they had on in rags. They said, however, 
that they fared better outside than inside the prison. 
On the 1 2th three hundred boxes of clothing and eata- 
bles, and fifty letters which had contained money, were 
received. Many of the boxes had been robbed, but not 
quite as many as before. Captain Manley, of our mess, 
received a small box of underclothing, which was a o-reat 
help to him, and incidentally to us. All the money had 
been taken out of the letters by the Confederates. Cap- 
tam Manley should have received ten dollars in gold, by 



596 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [November, 

express, but instead of delivering it to him, the authori- 
ties gave liim an order on the sutler for three hundred 
and thirty-three dollars worth of goods. The reader 
may inquire wh}' the rebels did not deliver the money. 
The answer is that there may have been more than one 
reason, but the most potent one was the fear of our brib- 
ing the guards. On the 15th I find recorded in m}^ diary 
our great sufferings from cold and hunger, ice forming 
in the water-buckets half an inch thick, and no rations, 
not even our usual standby of corn-meal and sorghum, 
being issued on that day or the next. Besides, there 
was our common enemy, the body lice, the fighting of 
which took most of our leisure time. Job's comforters 
and ground itch were also added. Could Job of old have 
suffered more? 

On the i6th of November our mess commenced build- 
ing a log house, 10 x 7 x 4 feet, with a pitched roof 
covered with long split-pine shingles. We had on the 
outside at one end a fire-place, made of sticks and mud. 
There was a small hole in the opposite end through which 
we crawled in and out. Our strength would not allow 
us to work long at a time, and, moreover, we could have 
the ax only by turns, one ax doing duty for a hundred 
men. We finished the building, and moved in Decem- 
ber 4. What luxury and comfort that poor substitute for 
a house afforded us in our weakened condition, none but 
those who have had a similar experience will ever know. 
On the 15th of November we received news of Lincoln's 
election, and there was great rejoicing throughout the 
camp. Our pitiable condition was for a moment forgot- 
ten, while cheer after cheer went up for "President 
Abraham Lincoln!" "Old Glory ! "and " Our cause!" 
Not so, however, with our rebel guard. They looked 



1864.] PRISONEKS-OF-\VAK. 597 

sullen and mad, and our rations after this were smaller 
and poorer, if possible, than before. 

December 3, Lieutenant Turbayne of the Sixty-sixth 
New York was shot dead by one of the guards without 
the least provocation. He was walking along the prom- 
enade, with an ax on his shoulder, towards the west side 
of the camp where we all went for wood, when one of the 
guard in his rear ordered him to halt. The lieutenant 
halted at once, and turned around. As he turned, the 
guard, a Mr. Williams of Newbury Court-house, South 
Carolina, shot him, the ball passing through his lungs. 
The lieutenant staggered, fell, and died in a few min- 
utes. Many others as well as myself saw the shooting, 
but not only did Major Griswold, the rebel commandant, 
refuse to investigate the matter, but after the murderer 
had been relieved by the officer of the day, he sent him 
back the same afternoon to do duty on the front line. 
The next morning he came into camp surrounded by a 
strong body-guard, for fear that our officers would do 
violence to him. This kind of shooting occurred all too 
often, and no one knew whose life was next to be sacri- 
ficed to satisfy the greed of bloodthirsty devils. The 
next day, December 4, orders were issued that there 
would be no more going outside after wood, either under 
guard or with a parole of honor, and what little wood 
we had after that was brought in by colored men. 

As stated above, no meat of any kind was issued, but 
there were two occasions on which a small quantity was 
received without rebel orders. Once was when two ot 
their fine bloodhounds, used in chasing negroes and 
Yankees, happened to run in between the guard into 
camp. Although the most diligent search was made by 
the rebel authorities, with cursing and threats, neither 



598 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [December, 

hide, hair, nor bones of those dogs could ever be found. 
The other time was soon after this occurrence, when 
an old, wild, black hog, in first-class running order, 
crossed the guard and that fatal dead line into camp. 
What a rush a hundred or more famished men made 
after that wild hog ! Former or present military rank 
had no distinction, and in less time than it takes to 
write it that "porker" had been cut into small pieces 
and was being cooked. Every part, even to the entrails, 
was cleaned and utilized for food. The followincj was 
written and posted up by our " wandering poet of New 
Hampshire : " 

" The black hog was seen when running through camp, 
Each man forgetting starvation and cramp. 
Grunts of the hog and its running were vain. 
Never will he be on that camp-ground again." 

On the 9th of December some two hundred left for 
exchange, including seventy-five special exchanges, the 
rest being sick or wounded. Among the number who 
left was one of our messmates, Capt. J. A. Manley, also 
Capt. S. F. Murray, Second United States sharpshooters 
of New Hampshire, and Col. H. R. Stoughton, Second 
United States sharpshooters of Vermont. By the latter 
I sent letters home which I am sure would not have gone 
through the rebel mail inspection, but would have been 
retained as contraband of war. 

The 1 2th of December, a cold, cheerless day, we 
received orders to pack, and were marched to the yard 
of the insane asylum, which was situated on the east 
side of the city of Columbia, South Carolina. The yard 
was on the east side of the asylum, and was surrounded 
on three sides by a brick wall twelve feet high, inclos- 
ing about one acre. A staging was built on the outside 



1864.] PRISONERS-OF-\VAR. 599 

of this wall, where the guard were posted. There was 
no means of escape here except by tunnelling, which 
was tried without success. The mad-house, used by us 
as a hospital, was the only building inside this yard, 
except a mere shell in the north-east corner, twenty-four 
feet square and divided into two rooms. This was a 
model from which others were to have been built, to 
accommodate all the prisoners, but the lack of lumber 
prevented. We lived there two months in the coldest 
weather, not one third of the men having quarters. 
Some old tents and pieces of tents were brought in, 
which served to cover the mouth of a hole made in the 
ground. It was my fortune, with seventeen other com- 
rades, to assist in completing a building, constructed 
after the plan of the above-mentioned model, in the 
north-east corner of the yard. With a double fire-place 
in the centre, built of sticks and mud, we could have 
been quite comfortable had we had plenty of fuel. One 
small stick of pine wood, about the length and size of 
your arm, was a day's allowance per man, and some days 
no wood w^as issued. The only luxury that we enjoyed 
here was plenty of good, pure water, from a hydrant 
located within the yard. 

On the same day that we came here, December 12, 
we were joined by seventy-five more officers, who had 
been confined in the city jail. Lieut. George H. Drew, 
of Company A of my own regiment, who was captured 
at the Petersburg mine explosion, was among the num- 
ber, also Lieut, and Adjt. J. H. Gallagher of the Fourth 
Vermont, an old acquaintance and an emplo3'e of my 
father before the war. As we now recall it, it seems 
tame to say that our meeting and handshake were 
cordial. 



600 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [January, 

Our rations here were the same as at Camn Sorfrhum. 
They consisted of corn-meal and a small quantity of sor- 
ghum — no meat of an}^ kind. On the 23d of December 
Colonel Shedd of the Thirteenth Illinois, at that time our 
senior officer, petitioned our rebel commander. Colonel 
Griswold, to provide something better for a general 
Christmas dinner. Of course the request was not 
granted. Our mess, however, was more fortunate than 
many, for, having a little Confederate money left, we 
decided to celebrate Christmas with a good dinner of 
beefsteak, sweet potatoes, onions, and butter. As we 
could not obtain United States coffee, we provided in its 
stead coffee made from burnt corn-meal, the flavor of 
which you will never appreciate until you try it. The ex- 
pense account in my diary states that the dinner for our 
mess of five cost twenty-five dollars, Confederate money. 
Lieut. G. W. Chandler of the First West Virginia cav- 
alry, and Maj. J. E. Pratt of the Fourth Vermont, suc- 
ceeded in obtaining two violins, a bass viol, and a flute, 
and with this band of music in the afternoon and evening 
we had a Christmas greeting never to be forgotten by 
tho^e present. 

I had been suffering much from chills and fever, and 
on January 2, 1865, was taken to the mad-house used 
then as a hospital for sick and disabled Union officers. 
I was fortunate in securing a bunk next to the wall at 
one end of the second story, where I could put my feet 
against the chimney, in which there was a fire-place. 
A fire in this turnished the only warmth in the room, and 
much of the time we w^ere without fuel. There were 
about twenty-five patients on that floor, and as many 
more in the room below. The surgeon in charge was 
Dr. A. R. Rouzie, from Tappahannock, Essex county, 




Sergt. Charles H. Little, Co. K. 








Sergt. John R. Hall, Co. K. 



Sergt. John R. Runnals, Co. E. 



1865.] PRISONEKS-OF-WAR. 601 

Virginia, a rank rebel, but very much of a gentleman 
and having a kindly nature. He had ver}'^ little medi- 
cine except boneset, made from thoroughwort, but he 
made up for this lack by telling stories, at which he was 
an adept. He spent an hour or more each day in this 
occupation, and left us with more smiles than tears, and 
with our aches and pains for the time forgotten. Either 
I was a special favorite, or the doctor did not want it 
known that they had any whiskey; at any rate, I 
accepted his own proposition that I needed the stimulant, 
and he brought me up a small vial on condition that I 
use it unknown to the other patients. This resulted in 
my taking several small drinks all by myself each day. 
I have always kept a warm spot in my heart for the 
doctor, and it has been my privilege and pleasure to cor- 
respond with him since the war. 

On January 4 we were paid for the extra sorghum 
molasses which we had not drawn. The amount was 
between four and five thousand dollars at rebel prices, 
and we received beef and potatoes for the same, causing 
many who had almost given up the hope of living to 
see home and friends again, to take on a new lease of 
life. On the 7th rebel troops passed through the cit}^ 
We were informed by the guard and by colored men 
that they were Kenshaw's brigade, Longstreet's corps, 
Lee's army, and were on their way to re-enforce General 
Hardee. 

Sundays passed about the same as is usual in military 
camp life, but without the morning inspection and after- 
noon dress parade. This day was always more quiet 
than others, and there were preaching services by the 
chaplains, or by some of the city ministers, when the 
weather would permit. A Rev. Mr. Dow, Episcopa- 



6o2 NIXTH NEW JfAMFSHIRE. [February, 

Han, of Columbia, preached to us on the 15th. On the 
17th I paid thirty dollars in rebel money for having my 
shoes repaired. On the i8th we learned that Fort Fisher 
had been captured by our forces — news which caused 
great rejoicing. On the 25th, Lieutenant Henderson, 
whose bunk was near my own, died of typhoid pneumo- 
nia, of which there were many cases. 

On the 26th gold in New York was quoted at 187^, 
and on the same date I gave a bill of exchange to the 
rebel sutler, John A. Bowen, for fifty dollars, made pay- 
able at the Northfield (Vt. ) bank by my brother, 
Stephen P. Wilcox. My memorandum does not give 
the amount of Confederate money received, but I think 
it was five dollars for one gold dollar, a total of two hun- 
dred and fifty dollars. On the 28th it was reported 
that one dollar in gold, in Richmond, brought twenty in 
Confederate money. On the 7th of February the rebel 
General Winder died. He was born and lived in Balti- 
more, Md., before the war, and was at one time our 
commander — a most cruel one. We put on no badges of 
mournin<j on that occasion. 

February 13, at six o'clock in the afternoon, we re- 
ceived orders to be read}^ to leave the next day. The 
next afternoon 600 were marched to the depot to take 
the train. A large number of these, however, the guard 
had to return, on account of the crowd of citizens who 
were anxious to leave before General Sherman's troops 
captured the city, and who took possession of the cars in 
defiance of the military force at hand. The next after- 
noon (the 15th) those of us in the hospital were marched 
to the depot. Before leaving, several ofl^jcers were 
helped up through a small opening in the ceiling into the 
attic of the hospital, where they secreted themselves, and 



l86s.] PKISONERS-OF- WAR. 603 

where they intended to remain until General Sherman, 
whose cavalry was reported to be only fifteen miles 
away, captured the city. Whether or not they suc- 
ceeded in their venture, I never learned. 

The wildest excitement prevailed, and when we finally 
reached the depot, it seemed to us that the whole popula- 
tion of the city, men, women, and children, was there, 
each loaded with gripsacks and bundles, and making a 
mad rush for the long train of cars. It was an amusing 
sight to us, and feeling sure that it was no false alarm, 
we were more willino- to remain than to board the train. 
But more troops had arrived, and we were soon marched 
to the cars through the crowd, and started for Charlotte, 
N. C. We had little to eat, and were packed with less 
care than would be used in shipping dumb beasts, but the 
thought of the possibility of Sherman's cavalry cutting 
the railroad before we should reach North Carolina 
caused us to almost forget our sufferings. We had pro- 
ceeded about forty miles when the train ran into a large 
herd of cattle which was being driven northward to 
escape Sherman's cavalry. The engine was thrown 
from the track, and the colored fireman and two cows 
were killed. Our guard dressed the beef, giving us 
what thev could not use. We did not start again until 
the next afternoon at two o'clock. Four long, heavily- 
loaded trains were waiting behind us, and a more panic- 
stricken crowd of soldiers and citizens you could not 
imagine. Not so with us ; we had not been so happy 
for months. It was a regular picnic, with a tree ride 
towards liberty and "God's country." We could not 
refrain from bantering our guards on the situation. 

We arrived at Charlotte that evening, remaining on 
the cars until the next morning, when we were marched 



604 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [February, 

to a camp about a half mile west of the city. Our rebel 
commander, Major Griswold, received a despatch that 
morning, stating that we were all to be exchanged at 
once. There were man}^ however, who took no stock 
in that kind of news, saying it was the same old gag to 
keep us quiet and to hold us easily with their small force 
of old men and boys, and before we reached camp over 
one hundred made their escape by running the guard. 
My long-time bed-fellow. Lieutenant Duren, and Lieu- 
tenant Drew of my own regiment, were among the num- 
ber. Many shots were fired by the guard, but my diary 
records but one hit — Lieut. T. E. Evans was shot in the 
leg. 

We received a large mail that morning. Letters from 
relatives and friends were hailed with greater pleasure 
than words can express. Nothing could stimulate the 
sick and discouraged more than these communications 
from home, although some of them had been months on 
the way. A letter received that morning from my mother 
was dated November 22, 1864. 

The weather was cold. Snow-banks could be seen on 
the higher ground, and we walked all that night to keep 
warm. The next day (February 19) Lieutenants Duren 
and Drew, with many others, were brougiit in, having 
been recaptured at a bridge about twelve miles from the 
city. Capt. W. D. Lucas, of the Fifth New York cav- 
alry, gave me one hundred and seventy-six dollars in 
Confederate bills, and my record also states that I gave 
him my note for thirteen dollars, payable in gold. This 
could not last long, but furnished our mess with meat and 
vegetables for a few days. 

At three o'clock tliat afternoon three hundred of us 
were put on the cars, and arrived at Greensboro, N. C, 



1865.] PRISONERS-OF-WAK. 605 

at five o'clock the next morning. Here we saw the first 
installment of our paroled enlisted men, about one thou- 
sand passing us on flat-bottomed cars. Our guai'ds pro- 
tested and threatened, but they could not prevent the 
exchange of cheer after cheer for "Our flag!" "Our 
cause I" and "President Lincoln!" We arrived, about 
noon of the 21st, at Morrisville, where we remained in 
the cars until two o'clock the next morning. While 
waiting here some one managed to obtain some apple 
brandy, or " apple-jack," as it was better known in war 
times. Stimulants of any kind had long been strangers 
to the most ardent imbiber, and we were not, physically, 
in a condition to stand up against that kind of fluid. It 
was wonderful how little of that "jack" it took to make 
a man appear to feel as though he owned the whole earth 
and all there was in it. 

We arrived at Raleigh, N. C, that same forenoon, 
remaining on the cars until the next day, the 23d, when 
we signed our paroles. On the 24th, while en route to 
a camp three miles out from the city, the engine ran oft' 
the track. We were on platform cars, and the track ran 
along a high bank, but fortunately the train was running 
slowly and stopped before going oft' the bank, though 
several of our number were injured by jumping oft\ 
Lieutenant McCutcheon, of our mess, sprained his ankle 
badly. His misfortune, however, proved to be more of a 
blessing than otherwise, both to him and the mess, for, 
while the rest had to march nearly two miles to camp, 
we were allowed to lodge in a cabin occupied bv a col- 
ored family. With us, also, were Lieutenants Jones and 
Belcher, sick with fever. How ready the poor colored 
people were to give everything they had to make us 
comfortable, none but those who shared the hospitality of 



6o6 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [February, 

the race under like circumstances can ever know ! Thev 
were always willing and glad to make any sacrifice for 
the Union soldiers and their cause. 

I went to the city one day after medicine for the sick 
ones, in company with the rebel lieutenant of the guard, 
Lieutenant Hull, and was fortunate in obtaining my first 
good square meal of fried ham and eggs, sweet potatoes, 
rolls, and pure Yankee coffee. That dinner will never 
be forgotten. 

On the 25th, all of us except the two sick officers, 
Jones and Belcher, went to camp in company w^ith the 
rebel surgeon, Dr. Rouzie. On the 27th we were again 
on the cars, arriving at Goldsboro the same afternoon, 
where we camped. Near by was a much larger detach- 
ment of our enlisted men, who also had but just arrived. 
Soon after our arrival the citizens brought in a large 
quantity of provisions, many of which were turned over 
to the starved and emaciated comrades from Anderson- 
ville and other prisons. All the blankets that could pos- 
sibly be spared were disposed of in a like manner. The 
citizens of Goldsboro may not have all been Union peo- 
ple, but their sympathies were so touched by the awful 
condition of the human beings whom they saw in that 
camp that they rendered such aid as they could while we 
were there. On the 28th we signed another parole, the 
first having been incorrect, or, as the rebels put it, not 
binding enough. Possibly it was not, but the meeting of 
Grant and Lee at Appomattox, only a few weeks after- 
wards, resulted in their not having occasion to enforce 
that or any other parole. 

Time will never efface our thoughts of home as we 
boarded the train for Wilmington, at five o'clock in the 
afternoon of February 28. We arrived at Rocky Point 



1865.] PKISONERS-OF-IVAK. 607 

Station the next morning. At ten o'clock we passed by 
twos between a file of Union and Confederate soldiers, 
and were counted. What a pleasure it was to look upon 
the blue uniform and equipments of our own soldiers once 
more ! Assistant Commissioner Hatch of the Confed- 
erate States of America, General Abbott of the United 
States of America, and Colonel Rawlins of the Seventh 
regiment, New Hampshire volunteers, were present and 
superintended the counting. 

After marching about two miles, we were halted, and 
partook of our first regular army rations of hard bread, 
boiled beef, and coffee, which I assure you never had 
tasted as good before. Resuming our march, we soon 
reached a large camp of Federal soldiers iust outside 
the city. We caught the first view of this as we emerged 
from the woods about five hundred yards distant, and it 
is impossible to describe our enthusiasm as our eyes once 
more gazed on the Stars and Stripes floating in the 
breeze. Many had not looked on the flag for more than 
two years. Not a dry eye could be seen, and not a few 
sat down in their tracks and, like children, had a good 
cry. It was one of the most touching scenes of the war. 
The encampment was of colored troops, and they had 
erected a large arch of evergreen and United States flags 
for us to pass under as we entered their camp. Many of 
the darkies came out on the road to meet us, and taking 
the most feeble on their backs, carried them through the 
camp to the city. I regret that I cannot give the name 
or number of this regiment. 

One hundred of us were quartered in a church that 
night. The pews were cushioned, blankets had been 
issued to us, and no one was kept awake by others 
marching around to keep warm, or to see how long they 



6o8 NINriJ NEW I/AMPSHIKE. [March, 

could sit up, smoke, and tell stories. I doubt if more 
fervent silent prayers ever went up in that church before 
or since. That same afternoon we met Sergt. William 
H. Hartvvell of Company I, George H. Brown of Com- 
pany F, and several other comrades of our regiment, who 
were quartered in a big cotton warehouse with a large 
number of other prisoners who had just arrived from 
Florence and Andersonville. From these I learned the 
sad fate of many comrades who had died from starvation 
and exposure, and who had been captured on the same 
day as myself at Spottsylvania Court-house. I very much 
regret that I did not record the facts and data in regard 
to them, but in the hurry of the moment, coupled with 
the pleasure of seeing those living, I failed to do so. 

The next day, which was March 2, 600 of us went on 
board the steam propeller Eiitrope. While waiting on 
the wharf, we saw going aboard another steamer the 
enlisted men from Florence and Andersonville. A very 
large number of them had to be carried on stretchers ; 
others walked, supported by two colored soldiers. 
x\gents of the United States Sanitary commission were 
there, stationed on either side with barrels of milk punch, 
each one as he passed receiving a cupful. The terrible 
scenes of suffering humanity that w'e witnessed on that 
occasion will ever linger in memory. The piteous 
moans, meant to express thanks and thoughts of home 
and friends, uttered by those poor comrades were enough 
to break the stoutest heart. All were half naked, and 
what clothing they had on was in rags, and filth}^ from 
dirt, vermin, and their own excrement. They were rnere 
skeletons, covered by a thin skin which was pierced with 
running sores alive with maggots. Their faces were 
black with smoke and exposure incident to camp life in 





Henry O. Sargent, Co. E. 



Lieut. John C. Sampson, Co. E. 







y 






Edwin F. Foster, Co. E. 



Albert H. Davis, Co. E. 



1865.] PRISONERS-OF-WAR. 609 

a tropical climate, and altogether they were changed 
beyond recognition by their nearest of kin. 

We asked ourselves then, as we do now, Is it possible 
that a civilized and Christian people could allow such 
torture of human flesh and blood, and commit such a sin 
against God and man, for the malevolent purpose of per- 
petuating negro slavery? Thirty years have passed and 
gone since the war, and we long ago forgave our then 
mortal enemies, but we believe that our posterity and 
coming generations should know something of what suf- 
fering, starvation, and torture it cost to overthrow slavery 
and secession. Some may accuse us of " flaunting the 
bloody shirt," but if the telling or writing of these his- 
torical facts is unpatriotic, then those who took part in 
that great war for the Union are not, and never have 
been, patriots. 

That afternoon we steamed down the river, and anch- 
ored for the night opposite Fort Fisher. Going over the 
bar next morning at high tide, we were soon out at sea. 
The voyage around Cape Hatteras was rough. Nearly 
all were seasick, and the accommodations for that or any 
other illness were not adequate for the number on board. 
Fortunately Lieutenant Duren and m3^self were among 
the well ones this time, and helped care for others. 
Delayed by storm and fog, we did not reach Annapolis, 
Md., until Sunday, March 5, at noon. We marched 
through the streets just as the residents of the city were 
returning from church service. 

The news of our arrival soon spread, and we shall 
never forget that crowd of men, women, and children 
who gathered around to greet us. Barefooted, ragged, 
hatless thoucrh we were, none ever received a more 
cordial welcome. We reported at once to Captain Davis 

XXXIX 



6lO NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [May, 

of the Thirtieth Massachusetts, commanding College 
Green hospital. At that hospital we signed our pay-rolls 
and applications for a leave of absence, then reported to 
Dr. Vanderkeift, the surgeon in charge of the hospital. 
The experience of the first night in that hospital was a 
novel one. We tried to sleep on a soft cot between clean 
white sheets, but finally had to spread blankets on the 
hard pine floor in order to obtain a night's rest. The 
next day, March 6, we were given two months pay by 
Major Wilson, he being the first United States paymaster 
I had seen since Maj. Henry W. Scoville had paid off 
our regiment at Cumberland Gap, Kentucky, in March, 
1863. 

I reported at Annapolis at the expiration of my leave, 
with the intention and expectation of rejoining my 
regiment ; but in the mean time Generals Lee and 
Johnston had surrendered, the war was over, and the war 
department at Washington had issued General Order 
No. 82, discharging all prisoners-of-war. It would 
have been a great pleasure to me to have rejoined my 
regiment and to have returned to New Hampshire with 
it, but under the above order we were obliged to accept 
our discharge from the United States service on the 15th 
day of May, 1865. It was my fortune and pleasure, 
however, to witness soon after in Washington the review 
and parade of that grand old army of veterans who had 
won the victory and saved the nation. It was also m}^ 
privilege, while in Washington settling up my accounts 
with the United States government, to obtain a card of 
admittance to the trial of Mrs. Surratt and her fellow- 
conspirators in the assassination of President Lincoln. 

The greatest of civil wars, ancient or modern, has 
passed into history. We do not forget its terrible cruel- 



iS6s.] PRISONERS-OF-WAR. 6ll 

ties, nor the death and destruction wrought by those who 
would have destroyed the nation ; but we forgive. In 
the words of that great commander of the Union army, 
Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, " Let us have peace ; " and may 
this continue until this nation shall stand as a monument 
for all other nations to gaze upon with wonder and 
admiration. 

The reader cannot imagine the welcome home that 
we received from our family and friends, and none but 
those who had the same experience can realize the great 
change from the life we had been living. 



6l2 



NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. 



[May, 



LIST OF PRISONERS CAPTURED MAY 12, 1864, NINTH 
NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS, SECOND BRIGADE, 
SECOND DIVISION, NINTH ARMY CORPS. 



Names. 



, 


. 




tr. 


tn 










c 


rt 


fi 




;-i 


(U 



Q, 
;_ 



> 


C/D 


u 


a. 



Co. A 



Co. B 
Co. C 



Co. D 



Co. E 



Co. F 



Co. G 
Co. H 



E. W. Archer 
A. McKusick 
J. L. Archer 
L. Myers 
Pat Reynolds 
John McCoy 

A. Paul Home . 

O. Hutchinson 

B. C. Buswell . 
S. Allen . . . 
T. P. Conrey . 
S. S. Shnes 



P. McDonald . . 
S. M. Piersons 
G. A. Ginnis 
L. Mitchel . . . 
M. F. Phelps . . 

F. O. Riley . . . 
Charles S. Stevens 
E. Bragg . . . 



Isaac Wooster 
Single 



Lieut. Chas. W. Wilco.x 
George Brown . 
T. W. Emerson . 
O. Flanders 



George H. Brown 



H. Page 



C. B. Hussey . 
Peter Dirrin 
O. B. Warren . 
A. Davis 
A. W. Hartwell 



Wounded. 
Wounded. 
Died Sept. i 



Wounded. 

Wounded. 

Died July. 

Died September. 

Died July. 

Wounded. 
Wounded. 

Took oath. 
Died September. 



Wounded. 
Died Sept. i. 

Took oath. 

Wounded. 
Wounded. 



IS64.] 



PRISONERS-OF- WAR. 



61 



LIST OF PRISONERS CAPTURED MAY 12, 1864, NINTH 
NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS, SECOND BRIGADE, 
SECOND DIVISION, NINTH ARMY CORPS. 



Names. 



m 


m 










Hi 


a3 


CA 


rt 




UJ 







03 
> 


^ 






OJ 





i-i 


in 


u 


Dh 



Co.H 



Co. K 



Co. L 



C. W. Morse . 
A. W. Pearl . 
H. H. Moulton 



A. 

S. 



A. Young 



Hal] . . . 
P. A. Smith 

S. Brown 

C. Chisley 

A. R. Davis 
A. 

D. Lenox 
H. P. Kingsbury 
William Smith . 
Alex. Thompson 
John Jones . 

Thomas Murjjhy 

B. Robertson . 
William F. White 
J. S. Pewtown . 
William F. Miles 
J. Smith . . 
M. Whalen . . 
A. Meek . . 
J. Thompson . 
G. Nollett . . 
G. Mendall . . 
Whitenhouser . 
G. Hedrick . 
William Troutman 
G. Bennewith . 
Charles Huddle 



Ninth Regiment proper 
Company L . . . . 

Total 



13 
I 



14 



30 
13 



43 



Wounded severely, 
Wounded. 
Wounded. 
Wounded. 



Deserter. 



Wounded. 
Wounded. 



One Lieutenant. 



CHAPTER XVIII. 

Prisoners-of-War in Salisbury, Andersonville, 
Florence, and Belle Isle. 



SUPTERINGS AT SALISBURY. 

By Sergt. IV. A. McGarrett. 

I was captured, with a number of others of the Ninth 
New Hampshire, on the 30th of September, 1864, at the 
Battle of the South Side Raih'oad, near Petersburg, Va. 
I was on the skirmish line, and we were ordered to 
advance to the road and hold the stone wall on the 
opposite side. We reached the road, and just then a 
line of rebels stood up on the other side of the wall and 
fired into our line of battle in our rear. Our skirmishers, 
on seeing this line, dropped, and the rebel bullets went 
whistling over our heads. The rebels then advanced 
against our line of battle, and captured all of the skir- 
mishers and a part of the men in the line, the most of 
whom were wounded. A second line of rebels was 
concealed back of this wall, who immediately took 
charge of us, robbing us of our knapsacks, haversacks, 
shoes, and whatever suited their fancy. They charged 
five dollars for a canteen of water, and we were left in 
an exposed position until after the firing had ceased, 
during which time three of our men w'ere severely 
wounded and one of the guards was shot from our 
batteries. 



1864.] PRISONERS-OF-WAR. 615 

We were then taken to Petersburg jail, and had our 
names recorded, together with our rank, regiment, and 
corps. Then we were sent to Richmond and put in 
Libby prison. Here we stayed a week, and lived on 
pea soup. Then we were sent to Pemberton prison, 
where we were searched and all our money, and our 
overcoats as well, was taken away from us. We were 
then taken to Castle Thunder, where we were robbed 
again of everything that was of any value to our captors. 
From there we were sent to Danville, then to Goldsboro, 
Raleigh, and lastly to Salisbury, N. C, and here is 
where our real sufferings commenced. In October and 
the first half of November there were over twenty thous- 
and prisoners-of-war corralled in the narrow limits of 
Salisbury prison, which could not reasonably accommo- 
date over six hundred. It was converted into a scene of 
suffering and death which no pen can adequately 
describe, for every hour and day we were surrounded 
by horrors which burned into our memories and will 
never be forgotten. 

The main building in Salisbury was the Confederate 
state penitentiary, one hundred feet by forty, and 
four stories in height. This and several smaller 
buildings were all filled with Confederate convicts, 
Yankee deserters, and southern Unionists, but the yard 
of four acres where the Union prisoners lived in holes in 
the ground, was the filthiest, most vermin-infested place 
in the world. I shared one of these holes with Sergt. 
William H. Hartwell of our regiment, and many a weary 
hour was whiled away listening to him reciting Poe's 
" Raven," and " Bingen on the Rhine." We were with- 
out coats and barefooted through that long and terrible 
winter. Every morning the dead-carts would come in 



t 



6l6 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [November, 

and carry out from one to five loads of men who had 
starved to death or died of exposure. All night long 
the screaming and ravings of many who had gone crazy 
from suffering could be heard. They would run through 
the yard yelling like fiends, and sometimes were shot 
down like dogs by the guards. It was thus that nine of 
our comrades died in that fearful place. Their names 
were, — Sergt. Maj. Franklin H. Foster, Company A; 
John G. Welch, Company A; Joseph Quinn, Company 
A; Asa A. McKusick, Company A; John D. Neller, 
Company A; Samuel D. Pearson, Company C; Fred- 
erick Morse, Company H ; John Clark, Company H ; 
William Thompson, Company A. 

I want to speak here in particular of Sergt. Maj. 
Franklin H. Foster. His life in prison was one of 
extreme and long suffering. He loved his flag and 
country to the very last, and often told me that if it 
were God's will he should die there he was willing to go. 
Every sign of flesh had left his body. Only bones, with 
a dry, withered skin covering them, were left. His eyes 
were sunken, and every tooth in his mouth was visible. 
His fingers were long and ghastly. A shirt and a pair of 
ragged trousers were all that covered him. He was the 
worst sight in the whole prison, and every day was sub- 
jected to the jeers and insults of the rebel guard, who 
called him "Uncle Sam's patented Yank," and asked 
him to take off his skin and show what kind of a man 
he was. 

The night he died I went to see him, and found him 
on his knees with his eyes shut and his long, bony arms 
extended at full length, praying for his loved ones at 
home, his starry flag he so dearly loved, his regiment, 
and his comrades in prison. Men dying on all sides 



1S64.] PRISONERS-OF-WAR. 617 

of him made their last effort in life to turn and hear 
his pathetic appeal. 

I stood bareheaded through that dreadful scene until 
his peace was made with heaven, and then he opened 
his eyes; and oh, that long, sad, pleading look when 
he handed me his few effects to be given to his father ! 
He grasped my hand, and bade me a last farewell 
until eternity. My heart sinks now when I recall that 
saddest night of all. Said he, "Tell my father I died 
for my country." I told his father that he starved to 
death, when he came to see me, but I could not tell 
him all. 

On the 26th of November the prisoners made a break 
for liberty, and the scene was indescribable. At once 
every musket in the garrison was turned upon them, and 
two field-pieces opened with grape and canister. Six- 
teen prisoners were killed and sixty-three wounded, all 
of whom died ; and after this horrible massacre cold- 
blooded murders were very frequent. Any guard stand- 
ing upon the fence, at any hour of the day or night, could 
deliberately raise his musket and shoot into any group 
of prisoners, black or white, without the slightest rebuke 
from the authorities. 

About the middle of December quite a squad of pris- 
oners escaped, and among them were Charles Thurston, 
of the Sixth New Hampshire, and Albert Richardson, 
correspondent for the New York Tribune, both of whom 
were successful in reaching our lines at Knoxville, 
Tenn. Some of the others were hunted down by blood- 
hounds and brought back to Salisbury terribly torn by 
the dogs, and all of them died from their wounds. 

From this time until we were released the snow was 
from one to six inches deep, and the prisoners were 



6 1 8 NINTH NE W HAMPSHIRE. [February, 

barefooted and almost naked, some of them livincr in 
holes in the ground, and some without any shelter of any- 
kind. The yard was covered every morning with dead 
men, who were tlirown into the dead-carts like cord- 
wood and carried out. And still new lots of prisoners 
were admitted almost every day. 

Rebel officers came into the yard with a large guard 
nearly every day in November and December, and 
offered a nice, large loaf of bread to all able-bodied 
Yanks who would enlist into the Confederate service, 
and a large number of our recruits and bounty-jumpers 
accepted their offer. But not in one single instance did 
a loyal patriot of the Ninth ever leave his comrades for 
anything they could offer. 

On the 22d day of February it was snowing hard, and 
the yard was filled with slush and filth, when we were 
counted off and paroled. Barefooted as we were, we 
marched that day and the next to Goldsboro, N. C, 
where we were put into cattle cars that were at least two 
inches deep with filth, and sent to Wilmington, N. C, 
where we were passed into our own lines. Here a large 
American flag had been stretched across the road, and 
every prisoner cried as only a true patriot can, after 
suffering what we did in Salisbury prison, when they 
saw the dear old flag at last. The Union soldiers 
immediately emptied their haversacks for us, and gave 
us their blankets, and even offered us their shoes ; but 
shoes were of no use to us then, for our feet were 
swollen and almost ready to burst, while the rest of 
our bodies were almost skeletons. When we reached 
Annapolis I weighed ninety-four pounds, against one 
hundred and fort3'-eight pounds just before we were 
captured. 



1865.] PRISONERS'OF-IVAR. 619 

ANDERSONVILLE AND FLORENCE. 

By Corp. A. P. Home. 

li is well I remember the first night the Ninth New 
Hampshire passed in the Wilderness, when myself and 
tent-mates, of Company B, were lying on the ground, 
listening to the groans and cries of our wounded com- 
rades who were being carried to the rear. And we 
remarked, one to the other, that in all probability it was 
the last night we should be together ; though we were 
happil}' disappointed in this respect, as none of us were 
injured the next day. But on the morning of the 12th of 
May came the Battle of Spottsylvania, and this history 
records the casualties which the Ninth New Hampshire 
sustained in that most heroic and desperate charge — the 
long list of dead and wounded, and of those nineteenth 
century martyrs who were consigned to a living death in 
the prison-pens of the South. 

I was among the number taken prisoners at the 
"bloody angle," and on passing through the rebel 
breastworks, what a sight met my e3'^es ! The dead and 
wounded were lying in the mud and water, so many of 
them that it was difficult to pass along without stepping 
on some one, showing that if we had been hit hard, they 
had been treated to a dose of their own medicine. 

On the morning of May 14 we were started on our way 
to the summer resort known in history as Anderson- 
ville — a name which makes me shudder to think of after 
more than thirty years have passed away, but as no 
tongue or pen can adequately describe its horrors I shall 
not make the attempt. We were three days in going 
fifteen miles, but at length arrived at Gordonsville, Va.^ 
both tired and hungry, as we had received but one 



6 20 NINTH NE W HAMPSHIRE. 



[May, 



ration in the three days. The reason we were so long 
on the road was because the Union cavalry was bother- 
ing our guards, and every little while the scouts would 
come in to report. We would be halted for a time, then 
would make back tracks, and advance by another route. 

Arrived at Gordonsville, we were searched for money, 
watches, knives, and what other valuables we might 
chance to possess ; and we could not say with truth that 
those who stole our purses stole trash, for it did leave us 
very •' poor indeed." Then we were packed into freight 
cars, sixty to a car, like sardines in a box, and were 
started on our way to Georgia. After passing through 
Lynchburg, Va., Charlotte, N. C, and Augusta and 
Macon, Ga., we arrived at Andersonville on the morning 
of May 25. 

Our first salutation was from that Dutch pirate. Captain 
Wirtz; "What makes you all huddle up together, just 

like so many d — d old women? You Yankee ! " 

he shouted, at the same instant drawing his pistol. 
"Scatter right smart into line, so you can be counted 
into hundreds ! " After having been parcelled off into 
squads, some one of our number was put in charge and 
we were marched inside the stockade. Andersonville 
prison. What horrors it recalls, what sighs and groans, 
what prayers and tears I What dying out of hope, what 
wasting away of body and mind, what nights of darkness 
settling down on human souls ! Its doors an entrance 
to a living charnel-house, its iron-barred gates but the 
outlook of hell ! It was the Inferno of the slave Con- 
federacy, and well might have had written over its portal, 
"All hope abandon, ye who enter here." 

What would the reader have thought, could he have 
looked inside, as we did, and seen the boys in blue 




Corp. Augustus P. Horne, Co. B. 



I S64.] PRISONERS-OF- IV A R. 6 2 1 

strung up by the thumbs, with their toes just touching 
the ground, to make them reveal some plan of escape ; 
or having their rations denied them for two and three days 
at a time, to make some half-starved and weak-minded 
man point out a hidden tunnel for a loaf of bread? The 
camp was alive with all kinds of vermin, — what wretched- 
ness ! — and on every hand were men without clothing, 
dependent on rags or anything that would serve to hide 
their nakedness and protect their emaciated and sore- 
eaten bodies from the burning sun. In those days we 
could only hope that somewhere there was a Gilead filled 
with healing balm, and that God's rainbow still arched 
the skies of calm. 

Still the weak and suffering, maltreated and hunger-tor- 
tured men lived on, refusing with scorn the inducements 
presented to tempt them to take the oath of allegiance. 
They were offered plenty of food and clothing to work 
as shoemakers, carpenters, and overseers of plantations ; 
but I am glad to say that only a very few ever went out 
in that way, and those who did were men that had 
enlisted for bounty, and had no real interest in the flag 
of the Union. Inside the stockade, our ears were 
greeted with cries of "Who'll swap a hard-tack for a 
pint of rice ! " or "An ear of corn for a pint of beans ! " 
"A bone for a piece of corn-bread ! " like hucksters at a 
county fair or a circus. The poor fellows, in fact, had 
lived so long on one kind of rations, at Libby and other 
prisons, that anything for a change tasted good to them. 

After w^andering around for a while, looking for a 
place to camp, I finally found a spot just large enough 
to lie down on, near the south gate. Here I established 
my " quarters," and held them until the grounds were 
enlarged on the farther side of the creek. After being 



62 2 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [July 

enlarged there were but thirty-two acres, and on the first 
day of July, 1864, there were no less than thirty thous- 
and of the boys in blue starving and dying in that hell 
upon earth ! Four out of the thirty-two acres were a 
swamp, with a creek running through it, and there we 
got our water to wash with and to drink, and as the 
work-house and camp of our rebel guard lay just outside, 
they had the privilege of bathing in it and watering their 
horses and mules before we got it to drink. 

Morning after morning, while we were there, we 
would see from forty to fifty dead bodies laid out side by 
side near the prison gate, — men who had died all alone 
in the darkness, and had been brought by their comrades 
to be carried out by the carts that came in with our 
rations. They were piled into the carts, one on top of 
another, like so much cordwood, to be buried in long 
trenches, heads to heels, with only a thin covering of 
mother earth. Such was the sad fate of fifteen thousand 
brave and true-hearted men, who suftered and died, only 
to be buried in an unknown grave ! What a burden of 
sorrows, disappointments, hopes, and miseries lies em- 
bodied in that one word, unknown I Those noble, heroic 
souls, dying among comparative strangers, had lost their 
names, their individual histories. Some fond wife, moth- 
er, sister, or sweetheart mourns them, or vainly waits 
for their coming. Each sound of footsteps at the door 
■causes heart-throbs of expectancy, but no more in life 
shall they behold those faces which once gladdened the 
household. Sick, and in prison, they lingered and died 
unknown ! 

So we lived on, waiting for the day to come that should 
open wide our prison door. The hollow eyes grew 
bright when we heard the boom of Sherman's guns at 



1864.]' PRISONERS-OF-IVAR. 623 

Atlanta, and some one would say — "Boys, they are 
•coming to set us free I" Then the wind would shift, and 
perhaps we would hear nothing for several days. Some- 
times it seemed as though we could hear the crack of the 
Springfield rifles, and the boys would go so wild with joy 
that at last the rebels caused poles with white cloth on 
the top to be placed thirty-five feet from the "dead line," 
and no gatherings were allowed outside of these for fear 
we would break through. 

We had all sorts of men inside those wooden walls, 
from the preacher of the Gospel to a highway robber or 
murderer, and the camp got so permeated with crime that 
we had to organize a " vigilance committee," which made 
short work of those suspected of desperate crimes. Fin- 
ally we formed a gantlet, and with the permission of the 
rebel commander drove quite a number of "suspects" 
outside. On searching their quarters, dead men were 
found buried in the ground. One of these wretches was 
convicted and hanged, and after that we had peace and 
order. We had a police court, and tried and punished 
our prisoners in due form. A man convicted of stealing 
rations, clothing, or anything of value from another, was 
consigned not to the whipping-post but to the whipping- 
barrel. The offender was laid across the barrel, hands 
and feet were secured to pegs driven into the ground, 
and he was then given from one to twenty lashes on the 
bare back, which was usually a sure cure. 

It rained almost every day while I was in Anderson- 
ville, either a storm or a thunder-shower, and one after- 
noon in the latter part of July we had the most terrific 
thunder-shower I ever heard. It rained so hard that a 
part of the stockade was washed away, but the Johnnies 
"got a move on," and quickly established a heavy 



624 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [September, 

guard. But even if it did not bring us our freedom, the 
shower was a blessing in one respect — it opened for our 
needs "Providence spring." Before it came all the place 
we had to fjet our water to drink was from the creek I 
have already spoken of, but the next morning, inside 
the dead line, a spring of pure, cool water was flowing 
out of the sand. Whether it was the hand of God, as 
when Moses smote the rock in the wilderness, or a freak 
of nature, I can only say, like Esek Harden, "God 
knows, not I ;" but the spring continued to flow as long 
as I remained. 

All those long, weary days and months thousands of 
prayers went up to God from inside those dreary walls. 
Homesick and suffering, sick and in prison, still they 
prayed — boys for their mothers, husbands for their wives 
and children, and all that they might see home once 
more. "Nearer, my God, to thee," "Just as I am," 
"Home, sweet home," and kindred songs rose and fell 
on the evening breeze, and there were services on the 
Sabbath and prayer-meetings during the week. So one 
can see that we were not all bad, in spite of our sur- 
roundings. 

About the time that Sherman was breaking through at 
Atlanta, the news came that we were to be exchanged, 
and all who were able to move or crawl were put into 
freight cars, both open and closed, and started for Sa- 
vannah. On arriving there we were confined in the jail 
yard, along with the black and white men who had been 
put in there for crimes ; but it was only a few days 
before we were again loaded into the cars. This time 
our destination was Charleston, S. C, where we camped 
on the old fair-grounds for about two weeks, while the 
rebels were trying to find a place for us. By night w^e 



1864.] PRISONERS-OF-IVAR. 625 

watched the burning fuses from the big guns, and some- 
times could even hear the whistHng of the shells as they 
flew through the air. 

At length a vacancy was found at Florence, S. C, 
ninety-six miles from Charleston, and this was our abid- 
ing-place until January i, 1865. There were 10,000 of 
us at Florence, and as the weather was getting quite 
cold we had to burrow in the ground like rabbits. Hav- 
ing dug as deep a hole as we could, we would crouch in 
it during the long, cold nights, with no blankets or cov- 
ering of any kind, and try to sleep. So the time wore 
away, the men growing weaker and weaker and dying 
faster and faster, fading and falling like the leaves ot 
autumn ; but the day came at last when we started for 
"God's country." We were sent from Florence to An- 
napolis, Md., and on arriving there were given a bath 
and the first clean clothes we had had for eight months. 
At the time I was taken prisoner I weighed one hundred 
and sixty-five pounds, but at Annapolis tipped the scales 
at ninety-six ; and speaking of clothes, you should see 
the suit I wore at Florence — made from meal-bags, the 
trousers cut out with a knife and a shirt made by cutting 
slits for the head and arms, with no sleeves. 

The night before we left Florence, just at dark, a new 
batch of prisoners was put inside the stockade. One of 
them was a German who could speak but little English, 
and he, knowing nothing of the rules, stepped inside the 
dead line, and was promptly shot down by one of the 
guards. The poor fellow lay on the ground all night, 
and we listened to his cries for help, but were not permit- 
ted to do anything to relieve his sufferings ; as the guard 
who had done the cruel deed would not let us remove 
him, lest he lose the furlough which was the standing 



626 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [September, 

reward for the putting to death of a " Yank." Such an 
incident as I have related was of too frequent an occur- 
rence to excite much comment among us, but pages on 
pages might be filled with stories of the deprivations and 
sufferings endured by northern men in the prison-pens of 
the South, without conveying any adequate idea of the 
terrible reality. 



CLOSE TO BELLE ISLE. 
By J. Frank Foster. 

We all remember that beautiful day, September 30, 
1864, the day we undertook to capture the Weldon rail- 
road. We charged the rebel works, and were driven 
back. As we were falling back Sergeant Partridge, of 
Company I, was wounded, and as I was near by I took 
hold of him to give him a lift, and while doing this was 
stopped by an officer who was trying to rally the men. 
During this time the rebels were advancing, and the 
bullets were flying nearer than was comfortable. 

I covered myself the best I could in the angle of a 
fence, but before I was aware of it the rebels were upon 
us, and I was captured-with a lot of others. Their first 
salutation was, " Give me your pocket-book, you Yankee 

1" Another rebel took my new hat and 

put his old one, which was alive with vermin, on my 
head. But the rebels soon fell back with their prisoners, 
for they were glad to get back away from our bullets. 

In passing the buildings on the Pegram farm a comrade 
named Gibson, who had been wounded, called to me, 
and I left the lines to speak to him. This incident un- 
doubtedly saved my life, as I remained with the wounded 
until the next Sunday, when they took us in ambulances 



1864.] PRISONERS-OF-IVAR. 627 

and carried us through Petersburg, across the river to a 
hospital. All this time nothing had been done for the 
wounded, except what I did. We all had our haversacks, 
so we were not hungry. A number of our men died and 
were immediately stripped of their clothing, and the rebels 
put it on. Next day they took us on flat cars to Richmond, 
and as we were crossing the James river we could look 
down upon Belle Isle and see the prisoners there. We 
then expected to join them, but on arriving in Richmond 
those who could not walk were taken in ambulances and 
carried to a hospital, and the rest of us walked. Those 
of us not wounded were detailed as nurses. 

On October 8 some of us were exchanged, and I felt 
fortunate to be among the number. We steamed down 
the river by Fort Darling, and the poor, starved com- 
rades felt as though new life was put into them, but 
some of these skeletons never reached home alive. 



CHAPTER XIX. 

Regimental Hospitals — The Brigade Band. 

The regimental hospitals of 1862 and 1863 were not 
the most cheerful places in the world for sick soldiers 
who longed for home and mother's care, and who were 
isolated to a great degree from their comrades. The 
experience of a Ninth New Hampshire man in one of 
these during the winter of 1862-3, is told as follows : 

" My first serious sickness commenced in December, 
1862, and kept me from duty till the last of March, 1863. 
The hospital of the Ninth at that time consisted of two 
hospital tents, pitched with their rear ends near each 
other, a large mud and wood chimney running up 
between the two, from which a fire-place opened into 
each. Like our camp, they were located in a mud-hole, 
and no pains were taken to drain off the ground, though 
it could have been done easily. In the tents the mud 
was very deep, and upon it pine boughs were spread, 
which furnished the bed of the patient; the bedding was 
whatever each happened to have, with perhaps an extra 
hospital blanket. 

" Four of my comrades put me on a blanket and carried 
me to the hospital. The tent was found to be crowded 
with patients, some sick with fevers, some with measles, 
— all mixed in promiscuously. They made room for 
me by ' thickening up ' the others. I spread a rubber 
blanket on the boughs, above that an overcoat, and this 
formed my bed. I was fortunate in having two blankets 



1863.] REGIMENTAL HOSPITALS. 629 

to spread over me, having brought an extra one from the 
Fredericksburg battle-field. I was as helpless as a little 
infant for several days ; was obliged to call upon the 
nurse to turn me over when my bones ached so I could 
stand it no longer. I have very little recollection of 
what occurred the first three or four days. I remember 
that one day Taft of my company came in as a measles 
patient, and I knew just enough to feel pleased that he 
was there with me. 

" On the 2d of January our box came, — the one which 
had been so long expected from Meriden. Its arrival 
just then was most opportune, for I was almost destitute 
of underclothes, and it contained some nice ones for me. 
I can't remember much about it, — only that some of the 
Company E boys, who were very kind to me all the way 
through, brought them in, took off those which I had on, 
and put on some clean ones. Those taken off were 
washed and put in my knapsack. I forgot to mention 
that my knapsack was my pillow. The box contained a 
nice pair of mittens, also a knit cap, and these were a 
great comfort during my long sickness in those cold tents. 
Sometimes the fires would smoke badly, sometimes go 
out entirely, for there was only green pine wood to burn. 

"After a few days a bright thought struck the sur- 
geons, — to separate the fever and measles patients. So I 
and the others sick with fever were carried into the other 
tent, and all the measly ones were put in where I had 
been. Much of the time the only food brought into the 
hospital was army hard-tack and coffee or tea. The first 
was perfectly nauseating to a very sick man. Those of 
us who had any money could buy apples and soda crack- 
ers from the sutler, and get the apples roasted in the 
ashes. Occasionally we got an onion or potato. Many 



630 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [January, 

of the men were almost destitute of underclothing, not 
having a change, and perhaps they would lie two weeks 
in the same clothing, and then if they happened to die, 
as most of them did, they were buried in the same. But 
I had it at'terwards from undoubted authority that some 
of those in charge had an abundance of soft bread, sauce 
of various kinds, etc., much of which was furnished by 
the Sanitary and Christian commissions ; and I know they 
wore drawers and shirts sent to the hospital by these 
commissions for the use of patients. 

" The nurses were generally kind, and did as well as 
they could with their means, but they had nothing to do 
with. A half-candle was allowed for both tents per 
night, but was not lighted except to give the regular 
doses of quinine. It was not uncommon for a patient to 
die in the night, and lor no one to know it till morning. 
Yet it has been claimed that there were plenty of can- 
dles among the surgeons, and that they often had 
euchre parties in their tents till after midnight. We 
were, moreover, only a short distance from Washing- 
ton, whence all kinds of supplies might have been 
obtained for the askincr. I believe that some of the 
patients almost starved to death for want of something 
palatable, and many became covered with vermin for 
want of a change of clothing. 

"After I had been for some time in the hospital, the 
beds were somewhat improved by driving down little 
crotches at the head and foot, laying some sticks from 
one to the other, and covering these with small poles, 
which were spread two or three inches thick with 
boughs ; or, in some instances, with hay mattresses, 
improvised for the occasion. 

" I remember a man from Company D came in the 



1863.] REGIMENTAL HOSPITALS. 63 1 

hospital one cold, stormy night (he had been there 
before, but had been sent back to duty before fully 
recovered), having just then come from the picket line. 
They gave him a place next to me. This was before 
our beds were raised on poles, and when I awoke next 
morning one of his hands lay uncovered near my face. 
As it looked cold I thought I would put it back under 
his blanket, but on touching it, I found the body cold 
and stiff in death. He had died there in the cold and 
darkness, and no one knew it. Presently the nurse dis- 
covered it, and a little while after, when the surgeon 
came in to look us over and order new doses of quinine, 
he said, as he saw the body, ' By G — d, is that man 
dead ! ' I don't know whether any other funeral sermon 
was preached or not. I believe they called the disease 
with which many died, ' pneumonia.' I noticed that as 
soon as the victims became ' flighty ' they sank right 
away. I used to watch myself, and try to ascertain 
whether I was in my right mind. 

" One day a corporal of Company A was brought in 
and placed beside me. It seemed as if some one were 
always dying beside me, so that a new one was placed 
near me almost every day. This corporal had been on 
duty with me at Willcox's head-quarters. At first he 
was not very sick, and we talked a little as I felt able. 
He told me about his wife and little girl, and seemed to 
think about them almost all the time ; said his wife was 
a Christian, and that he desired to be. I advised and 
encouraged him as well as I knew how. He frequently 
prayed for himself and family. In a few days he began 
to get crazy, and his mind was on home all the time. 
He would call for his wife, then would jump from his 
hard bed, and sometimes act very wild. One stormy 



632 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [January, 

night he started up, crying for his wife, and made for 
the tent door. The nurse caught him just as he was 
going out, got him back on his pole bed (which seemed 
to me like putting him on a rack), and strapped him 
down. He now failed rapidly, but became very trouble- 
some to me, as he was most of the time out of his head. 
He would attempt to pull off my blankets, and as I had 
no strength to hold them, I would yell out to the nurse, 
who would come to my assistance. Soon they moved 
me onto another bed. 

" The corporal continued to wear himself out by thrash- 
ing around, and they were frequently obliged to strap 
him down. One morning, after a terrible night in which 
he had completely exhausted his strength, I saw by his 
groaning and the rattle in his throat that it was nearly 
over with him. I shall never forget how dreadfully he 
looked, as in his restlessness his head would drop fre- 
quently over the side of his narrow, pole bedstead, while 
his eyes glared wildly about, and his long, matted, and 
dishevelled hair made him the very picture of a wild 
maniac breathing his last. At length he seemed calmer, 
and appeared to be hunting for something. 

" I called the nurse, who looked in his pockets and 
found in one of the inner ones an envelope containing 
some pictures. They were of a nice looking lady and a 
beautiful little girl, and the nurse asked the corporal if 
those were what he was searching for. The poor fellow 
was too far gone to speak, but he took the pictures in his 
hand, the wildness left his eyes, he gazed on them with a 
pleasant smile, and thus passed away, holding them 
tightly in his hand. About a year after I wrote to his 
wife an account of his death, or rather of his very last 
moments, omitting everything which would be shocking 



1863.] REGIMENTAL HOSPITALS. 633 

for her to know, for which I received a letter overflowing 
with thankful expressions. 

" I have said that the nurses in the hospital were effi- 
cient and kind. There was one old fellow from Com- 
pany A, an Englishman, who usually had charge part 
of the night, and who never could remember one man's 
medicine from another. The last two weeks I was there, 
every evening after the surgeon went out he would say 
to me, ' Say, do you remember how is this? I gits the 
midicine all mixed up in me mind.' As I had nothing 
else to think of, and there were precious few kinds of 
medicines administered, I usually took pains to notice 
what the doctor said, and after telling the old nurse 
about three times over, he would usually get it through 
his head. 

" I met with one great misfortune here which I could 
never account for. I lost my pocket-book, and with it all 
my money, about seven dollars. It had been in a pocket 
of my trousers. I could never think that any of the nurses 
or doctors took it, and yet it must have been stolen. The 
boys of my company and two or three of the nurses very 
kindly made it up to me, and more too. Tracy, Pulsifer, 
Bragg, George, and many others were always very kind 
to me, and but for them I could not have been washed 
for three or four weeks, while lying there with all my 
clothincj on. 

" My mother and sisters often inquired about my com- 
forts, — if I was supplied with clean bed-linen, etc. I 
always preferred for them to remain in blissful ignorance 
of my true situation. As soon as I could write legibly, 
I used to scrawl a few lines with a pencil almost every 
day, telling them that I was gaining, that the nurses 
were kind and did everything they could for me, etc. I 



634 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [January 

verily believe my mother would have worried herself to 
death had she known of my situation. 

" At the time Burnside attempted his great move and 
got stuck in the mud, there was an order to send the 
sick to Aquia Creek. The night before we were to 
leave, there came a cold, driving storm of snow and rain, 
and the ambulances arrived for us before daylight, while 
it was still storming. I was not able to sit up, but was 
carried to an ambulance and packed in with some ten or 
a dozen others. Many of us were not strong enough to sit 
up alone, but we were packed so closely that we sup- 
ported each other, and could not fall over. It had 
stormed into the ambulance, and the whole situation was 
as cold and dismal and uncomfortable as could w^ell be 
imagined. We were about a mile and a half from the 
railroad station, and the road was simply a succession of 
slough-holes and mud-pits, varied by a plentiful sprink- 
ling of logs and stumps. It seemed as though I had 
never suffered such pains as while being pitched and 
rolled and thrashed about on that drive, unable as I was 
to brace myself at all. 

" Arriving at the station, we were placed in freight cars, 
on some wet hay w^hich had lain out all the night before 
in a storm. After shivering here for four or five hours, 
an order was received that the hospitals at Aquia Creek 
were not ready to be occupied and that the patients must 
not come. We were all repacked into the ambulances 
and driven back to camp over the same bone-breaking road 
by which we had come. We arrived about sundown, 
only to find that our hospital tents had been thoroughly 
cleaned out, so that there was not even a pine bough bed 
to lie on. Of course there was a good deal of swearing 
by the surgeons, of growling by the men detailed to 



1863.] REGIMENTAL HOSPITALS. 635 

bring more boughs for our beds to keep us out of the 
mud for the night, and of patient waiting by us poor 
' sick devils,' who were the innocent cause of all this 
inconvenience to others. 

"In about two weeks there came another order to send 
away the sick, but as I had then got so that I could 
stand by having a man get close behind me and support 
me under both arms, the surgeons thought I was about 
ready for duty and did not send me. I had now been in 
the hospital nearly four weeks, and the doctor said he 
thought that was about as long as I was entitled to stay, 
and that I had better go back to my company and give 
the hospital room to others. I would gladly have gone 
if I had had a tent in the company, but having come to 
the hospital from head-quarters, and having no tent, I dis- 
liked to crowd in upon the other boys where I knew I 
could only be a burden. 

"January 26, 1863, I sent down to my ever true friend, 
Tracy, and told him how matters stood. Presently he 
came up with another man, picked up my things, and I 
waddled down to their tent, one of them holding me up 
on either side. There were in the tent Burnham, Tracv, 
and Charley Duncan, the latter just recovering from 
measles. It seemed like going out of a tomb when I left 
the old hospital tent, and I think I was a fair representa- 
tive of a corpse. The above named comrades had a lit- 
tle double shelter tent, stockaded about ten inches at the 
bottom, with a small fire-place at one end. At this they 
took turns cooking their meat, and in the coldest days 
we also took turns at warming ourselves. I was unable 
to do anything, even to get out of the tent, and they 
with almost no conveniences were obliged to wait on me. 
February i was a pleasant day, I was able to crawl out 



6^6 NIA'TH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [February, 

of the ' kennel,' and leaning on Tracy to walk about 
camp a little, but ever\thing looked so unnatural and 
bewildering that I was glad to get back and lie down. 

"About February 6 the Ninth corps was ordered to 
Newport News, and again the sick, or those not able to 
do duty, were ordered to Washington. Our surgeons 
had omitted my name in making out the list, though I 
was still unable to walk without help. Nevertheless, I 
packed my knapsack, and the boys helped me along to 
the hospital tents at the place trom which they were 
sending the sick. The ambulances were soon to come 
back for their last load. I looked into the old hospital 
tent which was still standing. There were one or two 
dead men there as usual, — those who had died the night 
previous. The father of one of them had just arrived that 
morning, and had put on his dead son some clean clothes 
and on his feet a nice pair of slippers. The body looked 
comfortable, and the dead soldier seemed more fortunate 
than some of the neglected wretches waitincj to be trans- 
ported alive. 

" The ambulances soon returned, and the rest of us were 
placed aboard. As we drove along the break-neck road 
over which we had been driven twice before to the sta- 
tion, and had left that old camp-ground and those ' dead- 
houses ' called hospitals, and were passing the long 
rows of new-made graves where so many of our com- 
rades had been buried, I felt a kind of insipid pleasure, 
for I was too weak to be enthusiastic over anything. 
Those loathsome scenes were growing more distant, 
and if any of the rest of us should die presently we would 
be buried somewhere else than in that detested place. 
Poor Kempton, however, of my company, died in an 
ambulance on his way to the station. They took his 



1863.] REGIMENTAL HOSPITALS. 637 

body back to camp, and the boys furnished the best sub- 
stitute they could for a coffin, which was done by nailing 
some barrel staves and bits of hard-tack boxes to some 
poles ; and thus they performed their last duty on Staf- 
ford Heights by interring one of our number under its 
cursed soil. 

" February 7 we were loaded into freight cars and 
conveyed to Aquia Creek, where we arrived about sun- 
down. Taft and Charlie Duncan were recoverino- from 
measles and were quite strong compared with myself, so 
they carried my knapsack and helped me besides. At 
Aquia Creek we remained on the wharf some time, and 
I got very cold, but many much sicker than I were in 
the same condition. We were at length taken on a sort 
of tug or ferry-boat and conveyed to an old transport, 
the George Weems, lying a little way from shore. There 
was on this one large room, like a cabin, where there 
was a fire, but this was occupied by those on stretchers, 
so that the great majority of the patients slept on the 
open boat, between the deck and hurricane deck, with- 
out a fire. 

"Taft discovered a place where a man could be 
' tucked away ' over the boiler, and where it would be 
warm. He helped me to get into it, and I slept warmly 
and sweetly till morning, in spite of the aching of my 
abscess. •♦ 

" The sick were all aboard the next morning, and the 
steamer moved up the river to Washington, where we 
arrived in the night. The day was quite pleasant, and 
we enjoyed sitting on deck in the sun. I saw, lying on 
a stretcher, a sick boy, apparently not more than eight- 
een years old, very much emaciated, and looking as if 
he were 'just about gone.' A second glance showed me 



638 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [February, 

that it was a boy who two or three weeks before had 
lain beside me in the hospital — at that time much stronger 
than I was. Sitting beside him was a man in citizen's 
clothes, who seemed to be his lather. I remarked to him 
that I had lain beside this boy in the hospital. ' Did you 
know his brother? ' said he. I told him I had frequently 
seen the brother come into the hospital to bring little dain- 
ties to this one, read his letters to him, wash him, etc. 
' Well,' said the old man, ' he was afterwards taken sick, 
and I now have him along in a coffin.' Before we 
reached Washington that night, the sick one was a 
corpse, and the old man started for home with both his 
sons in coffins. 

" I afterwards learned that the shock proved too much 
for the mother of the boys, who was expecting her sick 
sons to come home to be nursed. She was taken insane 
and soon died, and the old man, broken down with grief, 
committed suicide. I cannot personally vouch for the 
statement in regard to the parents, but presume it is cor- 
rect, for I had it from a soldier quartered with the boys. 
" Such was my experience with the regimental hos- 
pital, and yet, so little do we know in the army of any- 
thing beyond what specially concerns ourselves, that had 
I never been an inmate of one I should never have 
known anything of the wretched manner in which their 
affairs were conducted, unless, perchance, I had had 
occasion to visit sick comrades. 

"We arrived at Washington in the night, and lay at 
the wharf till morning, when we were loaded into ambu- 
lances and driven to the hospitals about the city. The 
ambulance in which were Taft, Duncan, Sweat, and 
myself, was driven to Mount Pleasant hospital. This 
was capable of accommodating something more than a 



1863.] REGIMENTAL HOSPITALS. 639 

thousand soldiers. The sicker ones were placed in the 
wards, and the convalescents in tents. 

I can never forget the change that came over me when 
I went into the main building, or hall, and thence into my 
ward. The wards were scrupulously neat, large, and 
well lighted, a row of tidy looking cot beds ranged on 
either side (over thirty in all), and the apartments were 
warmed with well heated coal stoves. Mottoes and ever- 
greens adorned the walls, and when I stepped inside, it 
seemed at first as if I had no right there, looking grimy 
and dirty as I did. Indeed it would have seemed a lux- 
ur}^ to lie down by the stove in the outer hall. I had 
been so long used to seeing sick men less cared for than 
mules, that in my helplessness I had come almost to 
think myself of less account than that interesting quad- 
ruped. 

" We were taken to the bath-room, where we stripped 
off all our clothes and put them in our knapsacks. Then 
we washed in tepid water in a large bath-tub, after 
which we were supplied with clean cotton shirts and 
drawers from the hospital laundry. These were a little 
damp, and seemed rather thin after taking off woollen, 
but the warmth of the apartment more than made up for 
it, so that I don't know as any of us took cold. We 
w^ere then shown to our several beds, mattresses, pil- 
lows, and clean sheets, and as I lay down, free from the 
' entangling alliances' of coat and trousers, for the first 
time since the commencement of my sickness, I almost 
wondered wliether Heaven would be a more deliofhtful 
place than that hospital, and certainly I thanked my 
Heavenly Father from the bottom of my heart that I was 
permitted to enjoy such luxuries. 

"The hospital was admirably managed in every re- 



640 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [April, 

spect, and among the nurses and attendants I formed 
some very pleasant acquaintances in the four weeks I 
was there. I was happily surprised to see Barber come 
into my ward one day. He had received his discharge 
and would soon go home. I gave him the trinkets which 
he had left with me before I was taken sick, not one of 
which I had lost. 

" One thing was curiously shown in our general hos- 
pitals, viz., how all nationalities were represented. Of 
the thirty patients in my ward, No. 4, there were Yan- 
kees, Germans, Irish, French, Swedes, and a Norwe- 
gian. I remember the Norwegian could not speak a 
word of English, and when he lay dying, he would talk 
so earnestly that I felt as though I would give anything 
to know what he said, for it seemed he must be leaving 
messages to friends, who I felt sure would never know 
anything of his fate. 

" March 31 I left Washington in the morning, and rode 
to Camp Convalescent, near Alexandria, on open cars ; 
arrived about noon. It was a muddy, disagreeable, deso- 
late looking place, and apparently very loosely man- 
aged. The barracks, however, were comfortable and the 
rations fair. I do n't know as any one pretends to know 
how many thousand soldiers there were here, and in fact 
no one that I talked with knew anything definite about 
the camp or how it was managed. 

"April 30 I was detailed to take charge of a squad of 
men on fatigue duty ; tried to work a little myself, but 
much labor seemed to prostrate me. Hundreds were de- 
tailed every day for labor which they were by no means 
able to perform, for many of them were just up from fevers 
and were still weak. But on the other hand there were 
thousands of' hospital bummers,' whose only idea was to 




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Sergt. Joseph C. Chapman, Co. G. 



Sergt. George H. Dodge, Co. G. 





Almon J. Fletcher, Co. G. 



Jason K. Webster, Co. G. 



1863.] REGIMENTAL HOSPITALS. 64I 

get a discharge, or in case they could not do that, to 
hold their quarters as long as possible. 

" I learned on April 11 that a lot of ' convalescents' 
were to be started for the Ninth corps the next day, and 
being thoroughly disgusted with the men and manage- 
ment in this camp, I applied to the surgeon for permis- 
sion to be sent to Camp Distribution, not far away, 
from which place they were to set out. Obtained the 
permission readily, and started for Camp Distribution. 
Found it a most lawless, disorderly, demoralizing, God- 
forsaken place. Men of all corps and regiments were 
huddled into a camp promiscuously, without any com- 
manding officers except those in charge of the guard and 
camp in general. The drawing of rations and wood 
was little else than a kind of grab game. 

" Marched from the camp to Alexandria on the morn- 
ing of April 12, where the cars were taken for Washing- 
ton. The men were not as orderly as they might have 
been in passing through the city of Washington. We 
were taken to the Soldiers' Retreat, where we remained 
over night. Our men had some trouble with the guard. 
It was cutting for old soldiers to be guarded by new men, 
who had never seen the front. 

" The First Division soldiers started on April 14, in the 
morning, and at 6:30 p. m. our Second Division men 
left Washington. Amid song and laughter and the clat- 
ter of the railroad train, I lost sight of the dome of the 
Capitol as it was lighted almost to a flame by the rays of 
the setting sun. 

"I arrived at Lexington, Ky., on April 18, about 
noon ; ' slipped the guard, ' and at 3 p. m. was in the 
cemetery near the city, a most lovely place, in which 
much money and labor have been expended to testify to 

XLI 



642 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [April, 

the regard for the memory of the loved and lost. In the 
central part of the ground, towering high above all 
others, is the stately monument of Henry Clay, sur- 
mounted by a statue of that great statesman. In a mar- 
ble sarcophagus within the base, repose the ashes of 
Kentuck^^'s noblest son, and upon this is inscribed the 
following, the last words of the noble patriot concerning 
his country : 

" ' I can with unshaken confidence appeal to the Divine 
Arbiter for the truth of the declaration that I have been 
influenced by no impure purpose, no personal motive, 
have sought no personal aggrandizement, but that in all 
my public acts I have had a sole and single eye, and a 
warm, devoted heart, directed and dedicated to what in 
my best judgjment I believe to be the true interests of the 
country.' 

" On the 19th of April we reached our regiment at 
Richmond, Ky. We got in a little after dark, with 
lame ankles, peeled toes, skinned heels, having marched 
twenty-five miles through a beautiful territory — in fact 
all the way from Covington to Richmond we were trav- 
ersing a magnificent farming country." 



i862.] THE REGIMENTAL AND BRIGADE BAND. 643 

THE REGIMENTAL AND BRIGADE BAND. 
By Musician J. B. Bailey. 

The Nashua Cornet band was organized in that city in 
April, 1861, under the leadership of Hezekiah P. Hamb- 
lett, who was also their instructor. The organization 
was continued till August 7, 1862, when the following 
members enlisted in the United States service for three 
years : H. P. Hamblett, William H. Graves, J. B. Bail- 
ey, J. A. Hamblett, G. A. Andrews, G. H. Lovejoy, N. 
W. Marshall, Beniah Moreland, Edward St. Francis, 
Lewis Simonds, J. C. Bennett, S. H. Howe, William 
Manning, W. A. Peabody, J. R. Wyman, J. H. Moore, 
A. R. Gleason, and E. M. Marble. That same after- 
noon these recruits were sent to the rendezvous of the 
Ninth New Hampshire at Concord, where they were 
joined by F. V. Marshall, a member of the same band 
who had previously enlisted. 

Every man passed the surgeon's examination, and 
after the examination played for dress parade. August 
9 they were mustered in, and assigned to companies with 
the understanding that they should be detailed as a regi- 
mental band. The drum-major was Sylvanus Adams, a 
native of New London, who had enlisted at Milford, 
June II. On August 18, Aaron Chase of Sanbornton, 
H. G. Chase of Lancaster, and Prentiss C. Hutchinson 
of Newport were detailed as musicians, so that the band 
had twenty-three playing members. Francis Morse of 
Nashua was detailed as cook. The days from August 
8 to 24, inclusive, were passed at Camp Colby, furnishing 
the necessary martial music and becoming acquainted 
with new associates, with the exception of a brief trip 
home to settle business affairs and say good-bye. From 



644 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [September, 

Concord to South Mountain the band performed no unusu- 
al duties, except on September 8, 9, and 10, when, the 
regiment having been ordered to the front, the musicians 
guarded the camp under command of the quartermaster. 
On the afternoon of the loth the band set out to rejoin 
the regiment, and found it on the banks of the Monocacy 
river. At South Mountain and Antietam effective and 
merciful service was done in bringing back the wounded 
of the Ninth and other regiments, and occasionally a 
suffering "Johnny," to the hospitals. 

General Sturgis, commanding the division, had been 
entertained September 19 by the Ninth Regiment band, 
and he and other field and staff officers were so friendly 
that the question of being made a brigade band became a 
frequent topic of conversation, and September 30 the 
following circular was issued from brigade head-quarters ; 

Head-Quarters, First Brigade, 

Second Division, Ninth Army Corps, 

Antietam, September 30, 1862. 
Circular. 

The following privates of the Ninth Regiment, New Hampshire Vol- 
unteers, have been detailed from service in their regiment, by their 
desire, and detailed for service in this Brigade, to form and constitute 
a "Brigade Band": H. P. Hamblett, Wm. H. Graves, J. A. Hamb- 
lett, John B. Bailey, Stephen H. Howe, N. W. Marshall, A. B. 
Chase, Beniah Moreland, Lewis Simonds, George H. Lovejoy, War- 
ren A. Peabody, J. R. Wyman, Eben M. Marble, E. St. Francis, 
Wm. Manning, Abel R. Gleason, and F. V. Marshall. 

Also that the following privates of Ninth New Hampshire Volun- 
teers are hereby detailed from service, to serve as musicians in said 
"Brigade Band": George H. Andrews, H. G. Chase, J. C. Bennett, 
James H. Moore, P. C. Hutchinson, and Francis Morse. 

By order Brigadier-General James Nagle. 

Jno. Edwin Mason, A. A. A. G. 



i862.] THE REGIMENTAL AND BRIGADE BAND. 645 

The circular was followed October i by this general 

order : 

Head-Quarters First Brigade, 

Second Division, Ninth Army Corps, 
Antietam, October i, 1862. 
General Orders, 
No. 26. 
The Regimental Band of the Ninth Regiment New Hampshire Vol- 
unteers, consisting of seventeen musicians and six privates from the 
same regiment detailed to serve as musicians, have this day been mus- 
tered in, to form and constitute the Brigade Batid. 
They will be acknowledged and respected accordingly. 

By order Brigadier-General James Nagle. 

Jno. Edw. Mason, A. A. A. G. 

Up to that time the men of the Ninth detailed as 
musicians had been under the command and subject 
to the direction of Drum-Major Adams of that regiment, 
but thereafter were to receive orders from the brigade 
commander or his adjutant-general, and they no longer 
had any fear of being put in the ranks. The detailed 
privates were as much benefited as any, except in the 
matter of salary. 

At Antietam Iron Works, South Antietam, Pleasant 
Valley, and in the march across northern Virginia, there 
was little which could be done to vary each day's rou- 
tine, but of that little the band boys did their share. 
They had to be present at guard mounting and dress 
parade, and attended a few rehearsals. They played 
at general inspections, at brigade drills, at the several 
head-quarters, and at Sunday services. On November 
27, Thanksgiving day. Chaplain Gushee of the Ninth 
conducted a service at General Nagle's quarters. The 
band was there, and rendered appropriate selections to 
supplement the devout chaplain's eloquent words, and 
when the day was over one of them remarked, "The 



646 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [January, 

services are all right to break the monotony of camp 
life, hut the gruh remains the same as other days." 

On December 12, in anticipation of the Battle of Fred- 
ericksbiir<i, the bands of the First and Second bricrades 
were ordered to report to Division Surgeon Cutter for 
instructions. That evening the Nashua boys serenaded 
Colonel Stevens and Lieutenant-Colonel Bovvers of the 
Thirteenth New Hampshire, both of whom w^ere resi- 
dents of their cit3% December 11, the two brigade bands 
worked all day in the rear of Stafford Heights, erecting 
hospital tents. On the 12th, they cut pine and cedar 
twigs to make beds for the wounded, though but few had 
as yet been brought in. On the 13th, seven men from 
each band went to the city with Dr. Cutter, and estab- 
lished hospitals in the deserted residences and in the Bap- 
tist meeting-house. December 14 they were busy at the 
same places. On the 15th, they were on guard at the 
church, but that night were ordered to the north side of 
the river, where a good night's rest was obtained after 
sixty hours' consecutive labor, 

December 16, one band was ordered to cook for the 
wounded during the day ; the other at night. The 
musicians of the Second brigade got the day service, 
and General Nagle's proteges the night work. But 
the boys made themselves as comfortable as possible, 
and did their best for their suffering comrades. As this 
labor grew lighter the usual camp duties were resumed. 
On December 23 the First Brigade band played for a 
division review by General Sumner, and on the 25th for 
Christmas services at head-quarters. Francis Morse 
was discharged on the 29th — "the first man gone." 
January 6, 1863, there was a corps review by General 
Burnside, on the 7th a division drill, on the 8th a bri- 



1863.] THE REGIMENTAL AND BRIGADE BAND. 647 

gade drill. Colonel Griffin of the Sixth returned 
January 19 from a visit home, and was serenaded. He 
returned the compliment by sending to the band's quar- 
ters a barrel of apples, which yielded eighteen to a man, 
and were a great treat. 

Aaron Chase received his discharge January 25 — "the 
second man gone." Februar}^ 9 the start was made for 
Newport News, where the parade ground was the finest 
on which the band ever played. On the 19th, Colonel 
Bowman of the Thirty-sixth Massachusetts was sere- 
naded ; the 25th was notable for a review of the entire 
corps by Generals Dix and Smith ; the 26th for a bri- 
gade drill. March 8 was a happy and sad day — 
happy tor Bandmaster Hamblett and his son J. A., as 
well as for William Manning, all of whom started for 
home ; sad for those left behind, who were to miss their 
old associates. William H. Graves succeeded H. P. 
Hamblett as bandmaster. On the nth the boys wore, 
for the first time, uniforms which had been purchased of 
the Hawkin's Zouaves band on the previous day. The 
price paid was eighteen dollars each. The new uni- 
forms were well christened by General Sturgis, who kept 
the band playing at his quarters from eight o'clock that 
night until two o'clock the next morning. 

The trip from Virginia to Kentucky was made very 
pleasant by the Unionists along the route, but especially 
so at Pittsburgh, Pa., where the brigade was given a col- 
lation at the opera house. The band played while their 
comrades were eating, and had a special supper served 
later in the green-room, where they were "waited on 
by ten of the handsomest ladies in the country," who filled 
their haversacks with cold meats, bread, etc., and their 
canteens with hot coftee. The boys played two pieces 



648 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [May, 

for tlieir fair hostesses, gave them three cheers, and 
voted Pittsburgh the "banner city/' The cattle car on 
which they were shipped westward formed a strong con- 
trast to their surroundings in the " Smoky city." 

The first campaign in Kentucky was as pleasant to 
the band as it was to the other Union soldiers quartered 
there. Three incidents will be especially remembered by 
the band boys. First, their reception and entertainment 
by hospitable musicians of Lexington. One of these, a 
Mr. Saxton, born in New Hampshire but for twenty years a 
resident of Lexington, invited a party to see "Colleen 
Bavvn " at the opera house where his orchestra was play- 
ing ; another, Mr. Stivers, a native of Lexington, pre- 
sented Bandmaster Graves with two pieces of music, 
" Kentucky Quickstep" and " Ellsworth Funeral March," 
both of which were pronounced " good." The second 
incident occurred at Winchester, April 15. In the after- 
noon came a brigade drill, then review by General Stur- 
gis, after which the band played by invitation at the 
Ninth New Hampshire head-quarters, and after the con- 
cert received from the officers of that resriment one hun- 
dred and seventy-seven dollars towards paying for uni- 
forms. This presentation was a complete and delightful 
surprise. The third incident evoked feelings of a differ- 
ent character. It was the resignation of General James 
Nagle, commanding the brigade. His farewell address 
was read at dress parade on the afternoon of May 21. 
After supper the band played for him for the last time. 
He listened attentively, made "a nice little speech," 
complimented the boys on their improvement and good 
behavior, and shook each b\'^ the hand and bade him 
good-bye. A member of the band said, " He has been 
a dear good friend to us, and will not soon be forgotten," 



1863.] THE REGIMENTAL AND BRIGADE BAND. 649 

and the remark was echoed and endorsed by ever3'^ one 
in hearing. The general left that night for his home in 
Pennsylvania. 

During the Vicksburg campaign the usual amount of 
hospital work was performed by those of the band who 
were on duty, but several of them were on the sick-list. 
Every one was glad when the city was taken and all 
except "the loved ones gone before" were back in Ken- 
tucky once more. At Milldale, Mississippi, the sick 
members, Howe, Andrews, Gleason, and Wyman, had 
come back to duty and were cordially welcomed, but 
nearly every one had contracted so much malaria in the 
swamps of the Yazoo that they continued to " shake " even 
in the genial Kentucky climate, and whisky and quinine 
in large doses were a common necessity. Before Septem- 
ber 6, three — Moreland, St. Francis, and George Stevens 
— had died. Others were seriously ill, but had recovered 
sufficiently by October to enable the band to appear at 
guard mount with twelve men, boots blacked, buttons 
bright, and white gloves. This was their first appearance 
after the return, and it "pleased the officers and surprised 
the natives." October 9 a smart looking negro was en- 
gaged as cook. On the same date Wyman and Band- 
master Graves received furloughs. Graves returned from 
New Hampshire November 14, and soon after came three 
new members, Harvey M. Hall, J. E. Hobson, and Charles 
Bohonan ; but instruments were lacking, and so many 
were sick again that little routine work was performed. 
Some serenading was done, as for instance, when Lieu- 
tenant Quimby of the Ninth was presented by the con- 
scripts with a gold watch, and the members of the band 
who were well enough were introduced to General Am- 
men, who was in command of Central Kentucky, and 



650 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [June, 

were complimented for their good work in the hospitals. 
A sad feature of the stay in Kentucky was the large 
number of funerals at which the band officiated. Janu- 
uary 17, A. R. Gleason died at the post hospital in Paris, 
and on March 21 the news of the death of George H. 
Andrews was received. 

During the latter part of March rumors were rife that the 
Ninth corps would soon be ordered east, and they proved 
true, for on April 2 the First brigade was played to the 
station at Nicholasville, and with its band took cars for 
Annapolis, which was reached on the 7th. 

On the 14th, J. R. Wyman died in his tent. His 
body was sent to Nashua, under care of Howe. Previous 
losses had been partially made up by the new arrivals 
in Kentucky and by details from the Sixth New Hamp- 
shire. May 4, three more were detailed, this time from 
the Seventeenth Vermont, viz., G. H. Swift, A. M. 
Johnson, and H. W. Walker. May 6, the band reported 
to the division surgeon near the Wilderness battle-field, 
and from then till June 18 each man was on the jump all 
the time, either caring for the wounded or trying to find 
brigade head-quarters, which were changed so frequently 
from Spottsylvania to Petersburg that those in the rear 
could not always find them when their special work was 
done. By June 21 the boys had found each other again, 
and on the 22d a comfortable camp was made not far 
from General Potter's head-quarters before Petersburg. 
Then began a series of guard mountings, dress parades, 
head-quarters and miscellaneous serenades, and private 
rehearsals, which continued witiiout much interruption 
until the explosion of the mine, July 30. On that morn- 
ing the band boys were out earl}', and went to the left, 
where a good view of the explosion was had. August 



1S64.] THE REGIMENTAL AND BRIGADE BAND. 65 1 

15 the division moved two miles to the left, and the boys 
lost their pleasant quarters. On the 19th the division 
was moved still farther to the left, and again the band 
went with it. October 5, news was received of the 
death of H. M. Hall. At the Pegram House fight, Sep- 
tember 30, the band became scattered, but soon got 
together again, and after the movement on Hatcher's 
Run every one was glad to get back to the old quarters. 
On November 29 orders to move were received, and a 
march of five miles was made to Hancock Station, where 
winter quarters were established. The band built three 
log houses. The largest had a room for rehearsals, and 
bunks for Hutchinson, Bailey, Chase, Lovejoy, and 
Moore. The two smaller ones were occupied by Howe, 
Bennett, Hobson, Bohonan, F. V. Marshall, N. W. 
Marshall, Swift, and Johnson, four in each house. 
Graves and Simonds had a small wall tent. 

A feature of the winter's encampment was the fre- 
quent playing of the brigade to executions of deserters. 
Rehearsals were kept up religiously, — for instance, on 
December 14 the general gave directions that after 
guard mount in the morning each man should practise 
by himself for one hour, that at two o'clock the full band 
should play at head-quarters for one and a half hours, 
and at four o'clock be at Fort Davis for dress parade, 
that after the parade a few pieces should be rendered 
in front of the colonel's quarters, and that the evening 
rehearsals should last from six to eight o'clock, making 
a total of seven and a half hours per day for each man. 
On the 19th, Governor and Mrs. Gilmore of New Hamp- 
shire were at the general's head-quarters, and received 
a three hours serenade. Bandmaster Graves started for 
home February 12, 1865, and there was no playing for 



652 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. [April, 

a while. He returned March 10, and held a rehearsal 
that same evening — the boys had had enough of loafing 
just then. 

On the 25th the Fort Stedman affair broke the quiet 
of the Union soldiers' life, and the 2.100 prisoners taken 
from the Confederates were marched by division head- 
quarters. March 28 three new members arrived from 
Newport, N. H., viz., D. W. Allen, C. C. Webber, and 
M. H. Whitcomb. April 2 the Ninth corps advanced, 
carrying forts and fortifications, capturing cannon and 
prisoners, and on the 3d the band marched through 
Petersburg at the head of its division and just before 
President Lincoln, playing the " Faust Quickstep." The 
feeling then was that Lee would have to be chased all 
over the Southern Confederacy, but the boys were glad 
to get him started. On the 4th the belief that the war 
was nearly over increased. On the 5th the band camped 
at Millville Station. Nottoway Court-house was reached 
on the 6th, where a halt was ordered till five o'clock on 
the afternoon of the 8th, when a further advance was 
made to Burkesville Junction. Sheridan's capture of 
12,000 prisoners, with cannon, wagon trains, etc., was 
announced on the 7th. On the rainy morning of the 
loth, just as the band were trying to decide whether to 
play or not, an aide dashed up to General Potter's quarters 
bringing the glorious news of Lee's surrender, and 
called out, "Boys, can't you give us a little music!" 
The boys rather thought they could, and amid cheers, 
din, and confusion indescribable, played for two solid 
hours, winding up with the national airs and " Yankee 
Doodle." The "Johnnies," many of whom were pris- 
oners near by, were no less glad that peace had come 
than were their former foes. 



i865.] THE REGIMENTAL AND BRIGADE BAND. 653 

At last the war was over, and on April 20 the march 
towards Petersburg began. We arrived at that place 
on the 23d, and were given an opportunity to view the 
fortifications. City Point was reached that afternoon, 
and on the 27th we were at Alexandria, where we 
remained until the grand review, May 21. On that 
occasion we united with the Fifty-sixth Massachusetts 
band, as we had many times before when our own num- 
bers were few, and marching at the head of our division, 
played the " Faust Quickstep " as we passed in review. 
We had intended to use the noisy " Door-Latch Quick- 
step " and discount all the other bands, but we arrived at 
the reviewing stand so suddenly that the opportunity was 
lost, a great disappointment to all the boys. The band 
reached Concord June 13, and joined in the formalities 
and festivities of that and the following days. We played 
together for the last time on the 14th. On the 15th, 
when the soldiers were paid off, the band's discharge 
papers had not arrived, and the boys had to leave for 
home without their pay. On June 22 we were notified 
to be at the Capital city on the 24th. We were all on 
hand and received our money, and said a last good-bye 
to Uncle Sam. 

Following is a table of facts relating to the band 
which will be found of interest : 



654 



NINTH NE W HAMPSHIRE. 



Term of enlistment 

Term of service .... 

Wliole number of members during term of service 

Original members .... 

Mustered as musicians October i, 1862 

Detailed as musicians October i , 1 862 

Afterwards detailed as musicians . 

Afterwards enlisted as musicians . 

Discharged during term of service 

Died during term of service 

Returned in 1865, with the regiment 

Original members returning with regiment 

Left in service ..... 

Deserted ...... 



. 3 years 
34 months 

22 
17 

5 
8 

.3 
6 

7 

15 
1 1 

8 

I 




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^ 



t1 




James H. Aldrich, Co. B. 



CHAPTER XX. 
Biographical Sketches. 



JAMES H. ALDRICH. 

Comrade James H. Aldrich, who was born in Lisbon 
in 1838, was the son of Jethro and Mehetabel (Moody) 
Aldrich, and is a resident of Dalton at the present time. 
He enlisted July 12, 1862, and was assigned to Company 
B of the Ninth regiment. At the Battle of Antietam he 
received a gunshot wound in the right leg and a bayonet 
thrust in the left knee, but was in the Battle of Fredericks- 
burg, December 13, and participated in the Mississippi 
campaign the following summer. Perhaps no other 
incident of his soldier life made a more vivid impression 
on his memory than that connected with the death of 
Captain Alexander, which is given in his own words as 
follows : 

" It was in July, 1863, and we were in the vicinity of 
Jackson, Miss. After marching all day we had been 
ordered on picket to relieve a colored regiment. Cap- 
tain Alexander had been posting the pickets, and in 
returning to give the countersign was mistaken for a 
rebel and mortally wounded by one of his men. Thomas 
Bond and myself carried him to the rear, and then 
returned to our posts. The enemy were creeping up on 
us all night. Dustin, the man below me, v/as murdered, 
and then my turn came to be attacked. It was a severe 
struggle, but I finally came off conqueror with only a 



656 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. 

sword wound in the groin. We were relieved the next 
morning, and I was detailed to help carry Captain Alex- 
ander back to Milldale, which was a four days march. 
Shortly after reaching Milldale the captain died, and I 
was then detailed to take his body to Vicksburg and 
attend to the burial. On my return to Milldale I was 
taken down with inflammation of the bowels, and lay on 
the ground for two weeks. As soon as I had recovered 
sufficiently I was detailed to go w^th the quartermaster, 
and remained with the regiment until the end." 



S. JUDSON ALEXANDER. 

Capt. S.Judson Alexander was a native of Hopkin- 
ton, but his father removing to Concord when Judson was 
but two years of age, that city was the scene of his short 
but happy life. He was born June 23, 1837, and died 
July 23, 1863, from the effects of a wound received while 
on picket duty near Jackson, Miss. He was a member 
of Dartmouth college, and had he continued his studies 
would have completed the course with the class of 1863. 
The diary which Captain Alexander kept during his war 
service has been preserved, and its first entry, June 23, 
1862, his twenty-fifth birthday, bespeaks the high purpose 
which animated his heroic soul: "For the past three 
years I have been at ' Old Dartmouth,' but have left my 
class, with many regrets, to help put down the unholy 
rebellion waged by traitors against our noble country. 
For the past three weeks I have been recruiting in Con- 
cord, and have enlisted fifteen men. I hope soon the 
Ninth regiment will be in the field, ready to do its duty." 

The last entry is vmder date of July 13, 1863, and that 
very night Captain Alexander was mortally wounded. 
The following day he was removed in an ambulance 



BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 657 

back to the Yazoo river, and died at Milldale, near 
Haines's Bluff. Only one short year had elapsed since 
he had exchanged the book for the sword, and laid his 
strong young life, so full of promise of future excellence, 
both in military and literary lines, a willing sacrifice upon 
the altar of the country he loved so well. 

The body of Captain Alexander, which had been 
interred at Vicksburg, was brought to Concord, January 
II, 1864, and the following day was buried with civil 
and militar}^ honors. Private services were held at his 
late home, conducted by Rev. Dr. E. E. Cummings, after 
which the remains were borne to the Pleasant street 
Baptist church, of which the deceased was a member, 
escorted by a company of the Invalid corps and the 
Concord Brigade band. Tender and affectionate tributes 
of respect were paid to the memory of the gallant young 
captain by Dr. Cummings and associate pastors, and the 
body of the earnest, conscientious Christian soldier was 
tbllowed to its last, long rest by a large concourse of 
mourning friends and citizens. 



BENJA.VIIX R. ALLEN. 

Benjamin R. Allen is a native of Newport, and was 
born May 26, 1833. As the son of a farmer he enjoyed 
the usual advantages in schooling and training, and later 
on learned the trade of a carpenter. From a boy he 
manifested a strong liking for music, and at the time the 
war broke out was director of music at the South Congre- 
gational church, Newport, and also leader of the New- 
port Cornet band. Enlisting in August, 1862, he was 
mustered in as first sergeant of Company K. His record 
as a soldier won for him by successive promotions the 

XMI 



658 NINTH NE W HAMPSHIRE. 

position of captain of Company H, early in 1865. He 
was wounded but once, at the Battle of Poplar Springs 
Church, September 30, 1864, and was mustered out with 
the regiment at Concord. 

Since the war Captain Allen has resided most of the 
time at Newport. Besides following his trade he has 
been an instructor of vocal music, enjoys a wide repu- 
tation as a teacher in singing schools, and still retains his 
position as director of music. He represented his native 
town in the legislature of 1891, and has been chairman 
of the board of supervisors of Newport for the past ten 
years. His home life has been a most pleasant one. 
He was married August 8, 1857, to Miss Mary H. Gil- 
more of Newport, and has five children. The oldest 
child, and only son, Fred J., married Miss Carrie Mar- 
tin, and lives in Atlanta, Ga. Dora A. married Charles 
F. Bingham, and has her home in Brattleboro, Vt. ; a 
second daughter, Addie Florence, married William H. 
Corser, and is also a resident of Brattleboro. The two 
unmarried daughters, Mary Blanche and Minnie Myrtle, 
reside respectively at Newport and Brattleboro. 



JAMES C. AYER. 

Sergeant Ayer was born in Deerfield in 1823, but was 
living with his family in Somersworth, when in April, 
1861, he enlisted in a three months company under Capt. 
Ichabod Pearl. He was sent to Fort Constitution, and 
served his time out there, re-enlisting the same day of 
his discharge for three years in the heavy artillery under 
Colonel Kent. Here he remained until April i, 1862, 
when he was discharged, and immediately re-enlisted 



BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 659 

under Captain Davidson. In August of that year he 
was transferred to Company E of the Ninth New Hamp- 
shire, and was promoted to be sergeant. For more 
than a year he had been in the service of his country, and 
as he had received no bounty, and no state aid, he soon 
found it difficult to support his family of seven children, the 
oldest but fifteen years of age and the youngest only three, 
on his scanty pay of seventeen dollars per month, so he 
was finally obliged to mortgage his comfortable home to 
keep the wolf from the door. At the Battle of Antietam, 
September 17, 1862, Sergeant Ayer, with Sergt. Henry 
O. Sargent, was ordered to the rear to guard the prison- 
ers which were brought in. They were stationed at the 
well remembered " brick house," on the west side of the 
road, and by the time night came on had a total of fifty- 
seven prisoners. The following day Sergeant Ayer 
received orders to deliver his charges to Colonel Wood, 
and thereupon marched them to the camp of that officer, 
about a mile to the east. After turning over his prison- 
ers, the sergeant asked the officer of the day, Lieut. S. S. 
Culburton, for a receipt, which was given him. For a 
disability resulting from wounds received in battle, 
which rendered him unfit for further active service, he 
was sent to the general hospital at Middletown. From 
there he was carried to Frederick, and thence to Wash- 
ington, receiving his discharge December 16, 1863. 
Though he has never recovered from the disability 
incurred by his injuries, and will be a cripple for life, the 
receipt for his prisoners-of-war, together with the origi- 
nal list of their names and addresses, is still cherished 
as one of Sergeant Ayer's choicest possessions. 



66o NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. 



EDWIN C. BABB. 



The subject of this sketch was born in Westbrook, 
Maine, February i, 1834. His mother, Mary Winslow, 
was a lineal descendant of Governor Winslow of Massa- 
chusetts. He was educated in the common and grammar 
schools of his native town, and in the common schools of 
Bridgeton, Maine, where he also taught for a short time. 
Later, he learned the marble-cutting trade, which he fol- 
lowed for a few years, and then rejoined his father's 
family in Berlin Falls, New Hampshire, where he was 
engaged in the lumbering business for a number of 
years. 

During the dark days of the Rebellion, when McClellan 
had been defeated on the Peninsula, and the call came 
for more troops, he left the profitable business in which 
he was engaged, and went to Concord and enlisted as a 
private soldier in the Ninth regiment, in which, at that 
time, he did not know a single man. He was made 
second sergeant, before leaving the state, in Company F. 
He was soon promoted to be first sergeant of the same 
company, and a short time later to be second lieutenant 
of Company H. Another promotion carried him back to 
Comipany F as first lieutenant, and later still, he was 
made captain of Company G. 

His history written in full would be much the same as 
that of any other soldier who participated in all the bat- 
tles in which the regiment was engaged. At the Battle 
of Spottsylvania, where the regiment made its greatest 
loss, the subject of this sketch commanded Company F, 
which was on the extreme right of the regiment and 
joined the extreme left of Hancock's corps. He was 
assisted by Lieut. C. W. Wilcox, who, with many others. 



BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 66 1 

was captured. The extreme left of the regiment was 
unprotected, and two columns of rebels, whose numbers 
were at least ten to one, moved quickly around the left 
flank. One half of the regiment was killed, wounded, 
and captured, and the remnant fell back and sought to 
rejoin the remainder of the corps. During this march 
toward the left of the line. Captain Babb was detailed 
by the regimental commander to march with his company 
in advance of the regiment, and a long distance toward 
the enemy, to prevent surprises or an ambuscade. The 
right of the corps line, however, was safely reached, 
where the regiment was engaged with the enemy during 
the remainder of that day. 

After his discharge from the army he went to Minne- 
apolis, Minnesota, where he engaged in the lumber 
business, which he followed for a few years, and then 
commenced dealing in real estate and in many other 
kinds of property, in all of which he has been financially 
successful. 

When the National encampment of the Grand Army 
decided at Denver to hold its next meeting at Minne- 
apolis, he was chosen department commander and chair- 
man of committee for that year. He served as alderman 
in 1886 and 1887, declining a re-election in 1888. He 
was elected mayor of the city in 1889 and 1890, and has 
been prominent among the business men who have built 
up that wonderful metropolis. 



JOHN VV. BABBITT. 

The subject of this brief sketch was born in Keene, 
June 12, 1835. His early life was spent in his native 
town, where he was educated in the excellent schools 



66 2 NINTH NE IV HA MPS HIRE. 

for which the town and subsequent city has ever been 
noted. At the breaking out of the Rebellion young 
Babbitt was living the city of Bloomington, 111. His 
patriotic spirit was at once aroused by the wicked out- 
break, and he was one of the first to enlist in defence of 
his country. He enlisted April 19, 1861, in a regi- 
ment formed for three months' service, during which 
time he was promoted to the position of sergeant. At 
the expiration of his term of service he joined the Fifty- 
eighth Illinois, was commissioned second lieutenant in 
that gallant corps of soldiers, December 24, 1861, and 
on the 26th of the following March was promoted to the 
captaincy of Company B in the same regiment. At the 
siege of Fort Donelson his regiment was assigned a 
conspicuous position, and in one of the assaults on that 
rebel stronghold he was wounded, but not so severely as 
to prevent his continuing in the service. In the Battle 
of Shiloh, and again at Corinth, Miss., he was severely 
wounded, necessitating his discharge, which was given 
him July 3, 1862, when he returned to his home in 
Keene to recuperate. At that time recruiting for the 
Ninth New Hampshire was going on, and as soon as he 
was able tu get about, Captain Babbitt offered his services 
to the governor of New Hampshire, in whatever capacity 
he saw fit to engage him. The governor recognized in 
Captain Babbitt not only an experienced organizer, but 
a brave and enthusiastic soldier, and he at once assigned 
him to duty as captain of Company I, Ninth New Hamp- 
shire, his commission being dated August 10, 1862. In 
this capacity he served until November 22 following, 
when he was promoted to be lieutenant-colonel of the 
regiment. This position he held until May 7, 1864, 
when he was ordered to take command of the Thirty-sec- 



BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 66-^, 

ond Maine. The Battle of Spottsylvania Court-House, 
in which this regiment was hotly engaged, occurred 
May 12, the same year, and in that engagement Colonel 
Babbitt was again severely wounded, and was removed 
to the officers' hospital at Annapolis, Md., for surgical 
treatment. Partially recovering from his wounds, he 
was detailed from the hospital to serve on general court- 
martial and military commission at Baltimore, Md., 
where he remained nearly six months, or until December 
5, 1864, when he was discharged from the service for 
disability. 

During Colonel Babbitt's long service as an officer in 
the Union arm}' it is believed that he never incurred the 
ill-will of a single soldier under his command. He was 
immensely popular in the organizations with which he 
was connected, and was held in high esteem by his 
superiors. Since the war Colonel Babbitt has held 
many responsible and honorable positions in civil life, 
and at the present time enjoys fairly good health, 
although never fully recovering from the honorable 
wounds received when battling for his country. 



ALDEN B. BENNETT. 

Alden Bradford Bennett was born at Dunstable, Mass., 
in 1816. In 1839 he enlisted on the United States ship 
Ohio as ship fifer. He served three years, most of 
the time sailing on the Mediterranean. At the breaking 
out of the War of the Rebellion he was the third man to 
enlist from New Hampshire, and did three months' ser- 
vice in the First regiment. He re-enlisted in the Ninth 
July 3, 1862, and August 6 was mustered in as principal 
musician in the regimental band. He was given a dis- 



664 NINTH NE W HA MPSHJRE. 

charge at Falmouth, and shortly after was again doing 
service as fife-major in the Thirty-ninth Massachusetts. 
The last sixteen months of his service were spent in the 
hospital at Washington, whither he was ordered as the re- 
sult of a fall received while marching. He was there, 
awaiting his discharge for disability, when the volunteer 
service was mustered out at the close of the war. Com- 
rade Bennett was a genial, free-hearted man, of quick 
impulses and a generous nature. His jovial good humor 
made him popular among his comrades during the war, 
and in later years his fund of reminiscence and gift at 
story-telling made him the welcome centre of any group. 
He was a shoemaker by trade, and followed this occupa- 
tion during the years he resided at Amherst. He died of 
apoplexy May 15, 1895, leaving a widow and two chil- 
dren, Mrs. Oscar Shaffer of Amherst and Mrs. Dr. 
McLeod of New Bedford, Mass., and was buried under 
the auspices of Post Phelps. 



CHARLES M. BLAISDELL. 

Charles M. Blaisdell was born in Somersworth, in 
1843. He was a clerk in Boston at the time of his en- 
listment in the nav}', early in 1861. Here he served one 
year, and was discharged in March, 1862, on account of 
small-pox. He went liome, intending to continue his ed- 
ucation at the Great Falls high school, but public senti- 
ment was at fever heat, and he had been at home but a 
few weeks when he was carried away by enthusiasm and 
enlisted in Company F of the Ninth New Hampshire 
volunteers. He followed the fortunes of the regiment 
during its entire service, participating in all the battles, 
marches, and hardships, and was absent only during the 



BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 665 

march from Knoxville to Covington, Ky., acting as as- 
sistant commissary sergeant from July to October, 1863. 

Comrade Blaisdell was but eighteen years old when he 
shouldered his musket and did a man's duty in the ranks. 
He was a modest, true, and brave soldier, always at his 
post, no matter how hazardous, and never flinching 
or complaining. He is another example of the high class 
of young men that left school, home, friends, and future 
prospects and laid his life on the altar of his country, as 
his success in later life has fully testified. 

The summer following the war he went to Boston, and 
was employed by the Boston & Providence railroad as 
clerk. In the fall of 1865 he received an offer from 
Florida, and for three years was engaged in raising cot- 
ton in that state. At the end of that time he returned 
North, and went into business with his brothers, S. Blais- 
dell, Jr., & Co., of Chicopee, Mass., dealers in cotton 
and wool. Owing to his superior business abilities he 
has been largely instrumental in laying the foundations 
of one of the largest cotton houses in this country, and in 
establishing a large foreign trade, and since 1888 has 
been at the head of the firm. His pleasing address and 
sterling business qualities have won for the firm an envi- 
able international reputation, and for himself many 
pleasant trips across the ocean and many friends in 
foreign countries. Mr. Blaisdell and his accomplished 
and talented wife (born Mary H. Starr, of Deerfield, 
Mass.) have rare taste and capacity for the beautiful in 
art, and in their extensive travels through this and for- 
eign countries have gathered many choice paintings and 
curios with which to adorn the pleasant home where 
they both delight to entertain their friends, and where 
every comrade may be sure of a hearty welcome. 



666 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. 

HENRY J. BOOTHBY. 

Henry J. Boothby was a native of Conway, and had 
but just attained his majority when he enlisted from that 
town, as a private in Company D, July 19, 1862. On the 
organization of the company he was mustered in as cor- 
poral. At the Battle of Antietam, September 17, 1862, 
Corporal Boothby was wounded in the arm, disabling him 
from active service for some time, but bringing to him 
tlie well-deserved promotion to first sergeant of the com- 
pany. While serving in the trenches before Petersburg, 
July 23, 1864, Sergeant Boothby was again severely 
wounded. He was commissioned as second lieutenant in 
November of that year, but not having fully recovered 
from his wound was unable to serve, and was finally dis- 
charged on account of permanent disability, January 13, 
1865. He died at Garfield, Ark., January 13, 1888, but 
through the kindness of his sister, Mrs. H. A. Herrick, of 
Marlborough, a photograph of Sergeant Boothby, taken 
during his term of service, was secured for this volume. 



ELMER BRAGG. 

Elsewhere in the history Sergt. N. T. Dutton pays a 
tender and appreciative tribute to the memory of his friend 
and comrade, Corp. Elmer Bragg. It is noticeable, in- 
deed, that whenever Corporal Bragg is mentioned in the 
diaries and letters of his comrades-in-arms it is in terms 
of the deepest respect. His life was only too brief, as 
numbered by years, yet who can measure the influence 
wrought by the strength of character which he ever dis- 
played, even under the most trying circumstances, or by 
the Christian fortitude with which he endured the terrible 





Sergt. Henry J. Boothby, Co. D. Corp. Edward D. Lathrop, Co. D. 





Frank H. Kennard, Co. D. 



George Weeks, Co. D. 



BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 667 

sufferings that filled the last three months of his earthly 
pilgrimage. Death does not end all ; and the world is 
better for the young hero who lived so well and perished 
so nobly. 



LEWIS BROCKLEBANK. 

Among the many Plainfield boys who helped to swell 
the ranks of Company E in the Ninth regiment, was 
Comrade Lewis Brocklebank. He was the son of Daniel 
and Lois D. (Heath) Brocklebank, and was born May 
10, 1845. He was with the regiment during its entire 
term of service, and was appointed corporal of Company 
E, February i, 1865. After the close of the war he 
returned to his home in Plainfield, and followed the 
occupation of farming. In 1885 he removed to Newport, 
where he died October 28, 1889, of bronchial and 
catarrhal trouble, leaving a widow, born Miss Belle Wil- 
ber, but no children. He was a loyal member of Post 
William H. Tracy, of Windsor, Vt. Though quiet and 
unassuming in manner, Comrade Brocklebank had made 
many friends at Newport, and resolutions commendatory 
of his character as a soldier and citizen were spread 
upon the records of the local G. A. R. post. 



WILLIAM IDE BROWN. 

William Ide Brown, the son of John S. and Deborah 
(Ide) Brown, was born in Attleborough, Mass., August 
27, 1839. ^^ 1843 the family removed to Fisherville 
(now Penacook), N. H., which was his home from that 
time. In 1855 he entered the New London Literary 



668 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. 

and Scientific institution, and there fitted for college. 
While there he made a public profession of religion, unit- 
ing with the Baptist church in Fisherville, and from that 
time prosecuted his studies with the intention of entering 
the ministry. Graduating at New London with distinc- 
tion in 1858, he entered upon his collegiate course at 
Brown university. Providence, R. I. His rank there as 
a scholar w^as above the average, although he devoted 
more than the ordinary time to literary pursuits and to 
general reading outside the prescribed collegiate course. 
Among his fellow-students he won an enviable reputa- 
tion as a genial companion and self-sacrificing friend, 
and during his last year he was honored with the per- 
petual presidency of his class. 

In the early summer of 1862 he left Providence, his 
collegiate course completed — save the graduating exer- 
cises — with the intention of entering upon a theological 
course at Newton, Mass. About this date, writing of 
friends in the service, he sa3^s, — " I wish I could have 
the results in my character of such experience. That is 
what will toughen — will develop — will strain every 
energv of being — will make a man more a man. There 
is something so noble in this absorbing of little, selfish 
interests in one great one. Before a man can sincerely 
and intelligently give himself a ready sacrifice to his 
country, his whole nature must pass through an ordeal 
that cannot but raise him in the scale of being. I do not 
mean that a patriot will continue long to balance his own 
interests and his country's before he will decide for the 
latter, but that true patriotism is something more than 
mere impulse, mere ignorance of the cost, mere indiffer- 
ence — it is the result of a rational, settled conviction that 
the country needs great sacrifice and is worthy of it." 



BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 669 

The call for volunteers in the summer of 1862 was 
answered by him, and he immediately deferred the 
sacred duty of preaching Christ for what seemed to him 
the more sacred duty of defending the imperilled liberties 
of the nation. It was duty alone which impelled him to 
forsake the church for the camp. He had no fondness, 
no natural aptitude for a soldier's life. But he saw that 
certain vital principles of our free institutions were at 
stake, and he seized the sword with alacrity and wielded 
it manfully until death released him from the claims of 
duty. His character as a soldier was in consonance 
with the motives which led him to take up arms and his 
natural preference for a quiet life. He lacked that dash 
and brilliancy which are essential to the popular ideal 
of a military leader. But wherever duty called him he 
was ready to go — whatever dut}' bade him do was done 
promptly and well. 

Regarding the Emancipation Proclamation he writes, — 
"I still hold that the enforcement of the Constitution is 
the direct object for which we contend, but I should feel 
that peace would be premature if it should leave the 
slavery question as it now is. I should regard it as a 
calamity if the armed violence that threatens the Consti- 
tution should be removed without removing the under- 
lying cause. I hope we are now doing the fighting for 
centuries to come." And again, from another letter, as 
indicative of his spirit, — " No one would more gladly 
welcome an unconditional surrender on the part of the 
Confederacy than I would ; but better a few more lives 
should be sacrificed than that the past sacrifice should be 
in vain. The length of life is not determined by our 
years, but by what we do. Death on the battle-field, 
with all its horrors, is preferable to slavery to unjust 



670 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. 

principles — a short life of freedom and honor better than 
a long one of servitude and disgrace." 

After the Battle of Antietam he writes, — " Many a 
time during the past year, under the influence of excite- 
ment and inspiring music, I have thought I could march 
with fortitude up to the cannon's mouth, but such feel- 
ings under such circumstances are not to be trusted. 
On the battle-field there is no music but the roar of 
cannons, the hissing of shells, and the hum of bullets. 
There is nothing very inspiriting about this, I assure 
you. One must then draw upon the courage of princi- 
ple, it must be the result of careful counting of the cost 
and a determination to meet the worst, and if it does not 
come, to count it all as so much gain, — as so much more 
than was to be expected." And again, while in front of 
Petersburg, — " I have full as strong a desire to resume 
my studies as I had one year ago, but I cannot leave 
honorably while the campaign lasts. I will see the war 
through before I think of any other duty." 

Comrade Brown was commissioned second lieutenant 
in Company K, August 10, 1862, which company he 
assisted in recruiting. On March i, 1863, he was pro- 
moted to be first lieutenant, and transferred to Com- 
pany B. On November i, 1863, he was commissioned 
as adjutant, a position for which he was well fitted and 
which he held while he remained with the regiment. 
His service with the Ninth New Hampshire was con- 
tinuous from the date of its muster-in until the fall of 
1864, when, on the organization of the Eighteenth regi- 
ment, he was tendered the position of major, his com- 
mission dating from October 13, 1864. 

Major Brown was killed in action at Fort Stedman, 
in front of Petersburg, Va., March 29, 1865, and his 



BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 67 1 

remains were interred in Woodlawn cemetery, at his 
home, April 7, 1865. His life was among the last sacri- 
ficed by the state in the Civil War, and his memory will 
be held in grateful remembrance by the patriotic citizens 
of New Hampshire. 



FRANKLIN J. BURNHAM. 

Franklin James Burnham was born December 31, 1842, 
at Norwich, Vt. His parents, James and Amelia (Whit- 
man) Burnham, were both descendants of English emi- 
grants who settled in Massachusetts in the seventeenth 
century. William Whitman, his mother's father, was a 
soldier of the Revolution, having served in a Massachu- 
setts battalion during the later years of that war. James 
Burnham had been reared on a farm in Hanover, N. H., 
and his wife on one in Pomfret, Vt. James had made 
ready a pleasant abode of the same character among the 
Norwich hills before his marriage. Upon the happening 
of that event he and his bride at once took possession, 
and it continued to be their home for the remainder of 
their lives, and was left to the youngest son, by whom it 
is still occupied. They were worth}' representatives of 
their class, and their children were carefully trained and 
instructed in the practical virtues and robust Christianity 
and patriotism for which the New England of their day 
was noted. 

The subject of this sketch was their first-born. As a 
boy he rendered unusually efficient service on the farm 
in summer, and in winter attended the " district" school, 
until at fifteen he had completed its course of study. 
During the next two winters he was one of a small class 
taught by a retired clergyman at the neighboring village. 



67 2 NINTH NE IV HAMPSHIRE. 

In the fall of i860 he entered Kimball Union academy at 
Meriden, was graduated at tliat institution in July, 1862, 
and planned entering Dartmouth at the beginning of the 
next college year. Touched, however, by the wave of 
patriotic fervor and devotion that swept over the North in 
response to the call of President Lincoln after the disas- 
ters of the Peninsular campaign, he with seven class- 
mates and several from other classes, joined a company 
then being recruited at Lebanon for the Ninth regiment, 
which became Company E in that organization. At 
first his parents withheld their consent to this step, but he 
pleaded the nation's need, and his own sense of duty to 
aid in her defence, so forcibly as to eventually win their 
approval and blessing. 

His position during the first four months of his term of 
service was that of private " in the rear rank." At the 
Battle of Fredericksburg several of the color guard were 
killed or wounded, and a call was made for volunteers to 
take their places, and he was one of those who offered 
themselves and was accepted. Soon after this he was 
made a corporal, and regularly detailed as a member of 
the guard. He continued on duty with the colors until 
April, 1864, when he was given a warrant as sergeant 
and resumed duty with his company. Up to that time he 
had been continuously present for duty except about four 
months in the fall of 1863. He was one of the many 
members of the regiment who contracted malarial fever 
in the Mississippi campaign, and on the return of the 
command to Kentucky, in the latter part of August, he 
was placed in a hospital at Covington. His illness was 
severe, and it was nearly two months before he was 
strong enough to be transferred to Camp Dennison, Ohio, 
then occupied chiefly by convalescents. After a sojourn 




Lieut. Franklin J. Burnham, Co. K. 



BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 673 

there of a couple of months he was assigned to the 
Invahd corps, and with others sent to Cincinnati for 
organization as a company of the First battahon of the 
corps. To be corporal of the guard for the remainder of 
his military life was too dismal a prospect altogether, 
so he deserted at the first opportunity and rejoined the 
regiment, which was then scattered along the Kentucky 
Central railroad, Company E being at Riser's Station. 

In July, 1864, he was made first sergeant, and was 
commissioned second lieutenant in November following, 
and as first lieutenant February i, 1865, being in com- 
mand of his company from October, 1864, until the regi- 
ment was disbanded at Concord in June, 1865. He was 
one of the very few members of the regiment that par- 
ticipated in every battle in which it was engaged. 
Although slightly wounded on three occasions during 
the siege of Petersburg, his injuries were not sufiicient to 
require him to leave his command. He was fleet of foot, 
and to this fact owed his escape from capture, if not 
death, at Spottsylvania on May 12, Petersburg Mine, 
July 30, and Poplar Grove church, September 30, 1864. 
He regards as perhaps his most difficult and trying expe- 
rience, his service as one of the volunteer detail that, at 
Spottsylvania, on the night of May 13 crept out between 
the lines and close up to the Confederate pickets, and 
found and brought in nearly a score of wounded com- 
rades, who lay where they had fallen on the morning of 
the I2th; and on the night of the 14th went out again, 
and brought in nearly forty bodies of the slain. 

On his return to civil life he determined to begin where 
he left off" in 1862. With his classmate at the academy 
and comrade in the field, Capt. O. D. Robinson, he 

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674 NINTH NE W HA MPSHIKE. 

entered Dartmouth, and pursued for the next four years 
the regular course of study in the classical department, 
graduating with the class of 1869. The next year he 
spent at Littleton, as principal of the high school in that 
place. Declining an offer of this position for another 
year, he went to Chicago, and began the study of law in 
the office of Hon. W. C. Goudy, and on the commence- 
ment of the school year joined the law class connected 
with Chicago university. From that institution he 
received a diploma and the degree of LL. B. in July, 
1871. About the same time he was admitted to the bar 
by the supreme court of Illinois. In company with a 
classmate in the law school he secured an office adjoin- 
ing that of a friendly city justice, and hung out a sign 
bearing the legend, " Burnham & Willard, Attorneys 
at Law." In the course of a few weeks Mr. Willard 
retired from the firm to accept a promising offer in 
another calling, and the remaining member continued 
the business single-handed. What might have been the 
result of this venture will never be known, for the famous 
kick of Mrs. O'Leary's cow, that started the great con- 
flagration of October, 187 1, cut short its history. Its 
proprietor saw it end in smoke with a sigh of relief. 
Within a few days he secured employment with the 
Relief and Aid Society which took charge of the distri- 
bution of the immense contributions in aid of the thousands 
left homeless and destitute by the fire. For this work 
his military training proved an excellent preparation. 
His executive ability was soon recognized, and he was 
rapidly promoted and finally made superintendent of the 
distribution of aid in the northern division of the city, and 
filled the position successfully until the conclusion of the 
work in April, 1872. 



BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 675 

The Northern Pacific railroad had then just been com- 
pleted to the western boundary of Minnesota, opening 
for settlement the famous valley of the Red river of the 
North. Some of his acquaintances were about to locate 
at Glyndon, ten miles east of that river and the junction 
point of the Northern Pacific with one of the lines of what 
is now the Great Northern system. Joining them, he 
became one of the first settlers of this place. He 
remained there three years, practising his profession and 
devoting his spare time to various business enterprises. 
In 1875 he removed to Moorhead, on the Red river, the 
capital and principal town of Clay county, Minnesota. 
This is still his home. It is now a thriving city of 3,500 
population. He has been successful in his profession, 
and prominent in other business. In 1881 he helped 
organize the First National bank of Moorhead, and was 
its first vice-president. He succeeded to its presidency 
in 1882, and has held that position to the present time. 
He has filled with credit several municipal and county 
offices, was for nine years a member of the Moorhead 
board of education, and has been continuously an active 
promoter of the educational, moral, and religious inter- 
ests of the community. He married, in 1873, Miss Harriet 
F. Laughton, of Chicago, a lady who has contributed in 
no small degree to her husband's success. Four children 
have been born to them, of whom two sons and a daugh- 
ter survive. Comrade Burnham's first ballot was cast in 
1864 for Abraham Lincoln, at the regimental polls before 
Petersburg, and he has ever since been an adherent of 
the Republican party. He is a member of the Grand 
Army and of the Loyal legion, and his love for the old 
flag and the comrades with whom he followed it through 
three long but glorious years, has suffered no abatement. 



676 NINTH NE IV HA MPS HI RE. 

GEORGE H. CHANDLER. 

George Henry Chandler, son of the late Nathan S. 
and Mary A. Chandler, was born in Concord, August 4, 
1839. His education was obtained in the city schools, 
and at Dartmouth college, from which institution he 
graduated in the class of i860. At the close of his col- 
lege course he entered the law office of his brother, 
William E. Chandler, of Concord, with whom he read 
law until August, 1862, also holding the position of 
deputy secretary of state from June, 1861, until that 
time. 

On the i8th of August, 1862, he became adjutant 
of the Ninth New Hampshire, and on October 11, 1863, 
was promoted to the rank of major. In the Battle of 
Spottsylvania, May 12, 1864, Major Chandler, while 
gallantly leading his regiment across the famous " bloody 
angle," received a musket ball through the flesh of his 
right thigh, but rejoined his command in the latter part 
of August. In November following, Major Chandler 
was made president of a court-martial at Washington, 
D. C, and after that, was detailed to aid the navy 
department in some investigations at Philadelphia. 

In April, 1865, he returned to his regiment with the 
rank of lieutenant-colonel, and with it was mustered out 
of the service shortly afterwards. Immediately there- 
after he resumed his legal studies at the Harvard law 
school, from which he received the degree of LL. B. in 
1867. Prior to taking his degree, however, he was 
appointed clerk of a commission at Washington, D. C, 
to codify the United States laws, and in January, 1867, 
went to England with Judge Isaac F. Redfield as junior 
counsel in some United States government causes for 



BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 677 

the recovery of Confederate property abroad, which were 
then in suit. 

Immediately after returning from Europe he took up his 
residence in Baltimore, Md., where he ever afterwards 
made his home, and began an honorable and successful 
professional career. He was a member of Wilson post, 
G. A. R., of Baltimore, one of the largest Grand Army 
posts in the South. 

Major Chandler married Elvira S. Coffin, eldest 
daughter of the late Samuel S. Coffin, of Concord, 
December 29, 1870. She died November 21, 1875, 
leaving three children, only one of whom survives, a 
daughter, Kate. In the summer of 1883, Major Chandler 
was summoned to Concord by the illness of his mother, 
and spent several weeks in ministering to her wants 
before her death, which occurred July 14. Just a week 
after the funeral of his mother, while visiting his brother, 
John K. Chandler, of Boscawen, he had a severe attack 
of neuralgia of the heart and congestion of the brain, 
from which he gradually failed until death ensued, on 
August 12. 

Major George H. Chandler was a most genial com- 
panion, a courteous and entertaining gentleman, a loyal 
and patriotic man, and a devoted friend, husband, and 
father. At his funeral, which was held in the Unitarian 
church at Concord, the Rev. Dr. Little of Chicago, a 
college classmate and close friend of the deceased, paid 
a tender and heartfelt tribute to his fidelity as a student, 
to his ardent patriotism in the War of the Rebellion, and 
to his fortitude and patient endurance under the severe 
wound he sustained in defence of the country and flag he 
so dearly loved. 



678 NINTH NE W HA MPS HIKE. 

GEORGE A. CHASE. 

George A. Chase was a native of Newport, and one 
of the large number of patriotic young men enlisted by 
Captain Cooper in Company K. His own words most 
fitly express the nice sense of honor and patriotism which 
led him to enter the service of his country. He writes, — 
" I wish I could send you something worthy of myself 
to put in the history of the grand old Ninth. I can 
simply say I enlisted to put down the Rebellion, and 
tried to do my duty while in the service. I was wounded 
at the Battle of Fredericksburg, was discharged, w^ent 
home, and enlisted again, a few months later, in the 
New Hampshire Heavy artillery. Company H." 



HENRY W. CLARK. 

Henry W. Clark, of Company I, was born at Walpole, 
June II, 1842. At the age of fourteen years his parents 
moved to Winchendon, Mass., and he was educated in 
the public schools. In 1858 he entered the employment 
of the Cheshire Railroad company at Winchendon, as 
ticket agent and telegraph operator, and remained in 
that position until his enlistment in 1862. Most of the 
time during his three years service in the army he was 
on detached duty as chief clerk in the brigade quarter- 
master's department, under Geo. A. Zimmerman, cap- 
tain and acting assistant quartermaster. On his dis- 
charge from the service in 1865, he again entered the 
employ of the Cheshire railroad, as general agent at 
Boston, and remained there until 1881, when he resigned 
to accept a position in the office of his uncle, William P. 
Clark, manufacturer and wholesale dealer in wooden 




Henry W. Clark, Co. I. 



BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 679 

ware, at Winchendon, Mass., where he now resides. In 
1867 he joined Bunker Hill lodge of Odd Fellows at 
Charlestown, Mass., passed through the various chairs of 
the subordinate lodge, and in 1881 was elected grand 
master of the grand lodge of Massachusetts. In 1882 he 
was elected grand representative to the Sovereign grand 
lodge, I. O. O. F., which position he held for two years. 
He is also a member of Bunker Hill encampment, I. O. 
O. F., and of Paul Revere lodge. Knights of Honor. 



HERMON A. CLEMENT, 

Hermon A. Clement, of Company F, was one of five 
brothers who enlisted to help crush the Rebellion. He 
was born in Lowell, Mass., August 16, 1841, and ten 
days before reaching his majority enlisted as a private 
in the Ninth. He w^as twice wounded, — at the Battle 
of Fredericksburg and at the Mine explosion before 
Petersburg, but served until the final mustering-out of 
the regiment in June, 1865. Serving most faithfully 
under Captain Stone, to whom he was devotedly attached, 
young Clement was permitted to minister to the needs of 
the brave captain, when he fell leading his regiment at 
Spottsylvania, and to perform for him the last sad offices. 
Throughout his entire connection with the regiment 
Private Clement's service was characterized by faithful 
performance of daily duty, — one of those who " also 
serve that only stand and wait." 



SIMEON A. CLEMENT. 



Simeon A. Clement was a younger brother of Hermon 
A. Clement. He was born in Holderness, and at the 



68o NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. 

age of nineteen enlisted in company with his brother. 
He served with the regiment up to the engagement at 
Poplar Springs church, September 30, 1864, when he 
was severely wounded, was captured on the field, and 
taken to Libby prison. After remaining there six weeks, 
he was paroled and sent to Annapolis. Some three 
months later he was sent to the hospital at Manchester, 
where he remained until he was discharged, at his own 
request, in May, 1865. Feeling that his days were fast 
being numbered, the young soldier returned to his home 
at Centre Harbor, and there, in April, 1866, after nine- 
teen months of patient suffering, as a result of his wound, 
he passed peacefully away. 



JOHN B. COOPER. 

At Walpole, in the Connecticut valley, there was born 
in 1842, a boy who received the above name, and who at 
the nominal age of twenty-one years, though he was real- 
ly but twenty, enlisted in Company D, First New Hamp- 
shire volunteers. After his term of service in that organ- 
ization had expired he recruited at Newport a large 
number of the men who afterwards constituted Company 
K of the Ninth New Hampshire volunteers, and the 
youthful recruiting officer was made captain of the men 
in whose enlistment he had been so largely instru- 
mental. On the Saturday in August, 1861, before he 
left the state on Monday, Captain Cooper was married to 
Mary O. Moody of Newport. At the Antietam battle 
he was wounded, and afterwards furloughed, but only 
to rejoin his company and the regiment on December 13, 
1862, at Fredericksburg, an hour before the charge on 
Marye's heights. During the second stay in Kentucky, 



BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 68 1 

Captain Cooper was detailed for service as provost- 
marshal on General Frye's staff. His labor there lasted 
from February to June, 1864, when, on the third day of 
the month, he rejoined his regiment, of which he was in 
command a large part of the time from the Battle of the 
Mine until the following April. Since the war Captain 
Cooper has resided at Newport, with the exception of one 
year during which he managed a farm near Rappahan- 
nock Station, Va. No citizen of the shire town of Sulli- 
van county is held in higher esteem than this officer of 
the Ninth New Hampshire. His careful judgment and 
known sincerity have been frequently demanded in the 
service of his townsmen. He has been selectman, 
representative, member of constitutional convention, and 
now, as executive member of the recently incorporated 
Newport water-works, is superintending the laying of 
pipes and building of the reservoir. In 1875-6 he was 
door-keeper of the New Hampshire house of representa- 
tives, and served a four years term under President 
Hayes as postmaster of Newport. Captain Cooper has 
one son, Mark O., born in 1866, and living with his 
parents. 



CHARLES D. COPP. 

Midway of Grafton county, and nestling in the shadow 
of grim Mount Moosilauke, is the little town of Warren, 
the birthplace of one of the Ninth's most gallant soldiers, 
Capt. Charles Dearborn Copp. Though born in a quiet 
country town, Captain Copp has ancestral claims that 
run back to King Eric of Sweden in the sixteenth cen- 
tury, and is equally proud of his descent from that brave 
old soldier of Revolutionary times, Gen. Israel Putnam. 



682 NINTH NE W HA MPS HIRE. 

When he was five years old his father moved the family 
to Nashua, where young Copp was in time duly enrolled 
as an attendant of the public schools. 

He began selling the Boston daily papers, in connec- 
tion with the local Oasis, Gazette, and Telegraph, at the 
age of eleven, and thereby gained the familiar cognomen 
which clung to him for many years, that of " The News- 
boy." When he was eighteen he bought out a paper 
agency, and soon after a book and stationery business, 
in which he was engaged at the breaking out of the 
Rebellion. In his boyhood days he had been an enthu- 
siastic member of an embryo military company, and in 
later years had been prominent in the Granite State 
cadets, an independent military organization in Nashua, 
so the country's call found in him a ready response. 

In the spring of 1862 he opened a recruiting office in 
Nashua, and in July, leaving his business with a brother, 
he went to Concord, where the recruits were assigned to 
the Ninth regiment. Here his knowledge of military 
tactics was soon brought into play, and he was commis- 
sioned as second lieutenant of Company C August 10, 
1862. Strict in discipline, prompt to duty himself and 
justly requiring the same of his subordinates, the popu- 
lar and efficient officer found full scope for his abilities 
while the organization and drilling of the raw troops was 
going on. 

The history of his army life is practically that of the 
regiment, for he was with it almost continuously, — 
through its long marches in summer's heat and winter's 
cold, in camp and bivouac, in skirmishes and hard 
fought battles. Company C was the color company 
during the term of regimental service, and in it, through 
two successive deeds of daring, the young lieutenant rose 



BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 683 

to be captain. If the color company held the place of 
honor, it was equally the post of danger and responsi- 
bility, and the command had devolved on Lieutenant 
Copp almost from the first, the captain being absent 
on detached duty and the first lieutenant so severely 
wounded at Antietam that he never returned. 

The special duty of the color company was the guard- 
ing of the flag. On several occasions, when the color 
bearer had been killed or wounded in the heat of battle, 
amid shrieking, bursting shells, singing bullets, and rat- 
tling grape and canister, Lieutenant Copp was the first to 
seize the fallen flag, to spring to the front and lead the 
men forward or rally on a new line to check a retreat. 
Such was his heroic conduct at the Battle of Fredericks- 
burg, that he was awarded the Medal of Honor presented 
by congress for acts of special bravery, a decoration of 
which he and his comrades may be justly proud. 

In July, 1864, Captain Copp was in the hospital for a 
few weeks, his health being somewhat broken by the 
exposure and hard service which the regiment had 
undergone, though he was one of the very few officers 
who received no wounds. Yet he had many narrow 
escapes, for at South Mountain he was the first man to 
get a touch of the enemy's fire, one bullet striking the 
toe of his boot, while another brushed his hair just over 
the left ear. At Antietam a spent ball struck him on the 
arm, producing quite a sore spot, while at Petersburg a 
bullet struck a fence-rail against which his head was 
resting, exactly in line with his forehead, but did not 
come quite through. 

In January, 1865, Captain Copp came home on a short 
leave of absence, during which he was married to Har- 
riet E. Woods, of Lancaster, Mass. He was mustered 



684 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. 

out with his company at Concord, June 10, 1865, and 
just before leaving for home was presented with a gold 
watch, every member of the company contributing to 
this token of their good-will and esteem. Returning to 
his business at Nashua, Captain Copp remained there 
until 1872, when he sold out to his brother and went into 
the furniture business with J. W. Howard. In April, 
1878, he entered the employ of the Gibbs Loom Harness 
and Reed company, of Clinton, Mass., as travelling 
salesman, visiting cotton mills from Maine to Louisana. 
In this business he is now engaged, having in the mean 
time spent three years in Burlington, Vt., in the bobbin 
and spool business, visiting the same trade. Captain 
Copp is a member of the Congregational church, also of 
the "Medal of Honor" legion, of the Massachusetts 
commandery of the Loyal legion, of the I. O. O. F., 
and of the G. A. R. His present home is in Clinton, 
Mass. 



MARTIN T. CROWELL. 

November 30, 1893, there died in Hopkinton, Martin 
T. Crowell, a member of Company B, who enlisted July 
18, 1862, at the age of twenty-one. He was mustered 
in on the day of his enlistment, and remained with the 
regiment throughout its whole service, when he returned 
to his native town, where he continued to live till his 
decease. For fifteen years he had been in failing health, 
suffering greatly from asthma. He was a member of 
Putnam post. No. 5, G. A. R., and is survived by his 
widow. It does not appear that Comrade Crowell lost a 
day's service, either from sickness, wounds, capture, or 
furlough. 




iilpn-* 



m. 




Andrew Currier, Co. A. 



James B. Kimball, Co. A. 




George W. Barnard, Co. A. 



BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 685 

ANDREW CURRIER. 

Andrew Currier, the subject of this sketch, a private 
in Company A, was born in Newton, N. H., August 5, 
1844. His early life was spent in his native town, 
attending the public schools, working on the farm, and 
in shoemaking. He enlisted July 7, 1862, and was 
immediately mustered into service. He participated in 
the battles of South Mountain, Antietam, and Freder- 
icksburg. The winter following he contracted the 
measles, which, with the exposure he endured, left him 
in feeble health, and he received his discharge April 27, 
1863, at Portsmouth Grove, R. I. Partially regaining 
his health, he re-enlisted, June, 1864, in the Veteran 
Reserve corps, joining the famous Black Horse cavalry, 
which comprised Lincoln's body-guard, and was doing 
duty at the time of the president's assassination. This 
organization was the first to surround Ford's thea- 
tre on that fatal night. Receiving his discharge at the 
close of the war, he returned to Newton and engaged in 
mercantile pursuits, and later in the manufacture of 
boots and shoes, in which business he remains at the 
present writing. Mr. Currier is a member of C. R. 
Mudge post. No. 114, G. A. R., of Merrimac, Mass., 
and of Twilight lodge, I. O. O. F., of Newton. 



NATHAN GUSHING. 

Private Nathan Cushing was born in Woodstock, Vt., 
in 1842, but afterwards became a resident of Plainfield. 
He enlisted at Lebanon in the latter part of July, 1862, 
under Capt. Daniel C. Buswell. On reaching the ren- 
dezvous at Concord, the company was increased by the 



686 NINTH NE VV HAMPSHIRE. 

addition of about forty men who had been sent up t"rom 
Portsmouth, and the complete organization became Com- 
pany E of the Ninth New Hampshire. The night the 
regiment reached Washington on its way out, Private 
Cushing was one of the volunteer guard who served as 
sentinels while their comrades slept. At the Battle of 
Antietam, while serving on special detail, he narrowly 
escaped capture. He served with the regiment until 
early in December, when he was taken ill and sent to 
the hospital, and was finally discharged for disability, 
December 29, 1862. 



LEWIS DWIGHT DARLING. 

Lewis Dwight Darling was a native of Keene, and 
was but eighteen years old when he enlisted as a private 
in Company I. He won his promotion to corporal and 
sergeant by his faithful attention to duty, and shared the 
fortunes of the regiment through all the vicissitudes it 
experienced, participating in every engagement, from 
South Mountain to the fall of Petersburg. Sergeant 
Darling received a gunshot wound in the breast in the 
advance upon the enemy at Tolopotomoy Creek, and 
was again wounded in the knee at the explosion of the 
Mine, but kept with the regiment until he was finally 
mustered out at the close of the war. 



ALVAH R. DAVIS. 



The above named comrade was born in West Charles- 
town, Vt., but having taken up his residence in Croydon, 
this state, and engaged in farming, he enlisted in August, 
1862, at the age of nineteen, and became a private of 



BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 687 

Company K, of the Ninth. He followed the fortunes of 
the regiment until he was captured at Spottsylvania 
Court-house, May 12, 1864. The next seven months 
were passed in rebel prison-pens, four months at Ander- 
sonvilie and three at Florence. In December, 1864, he 
was exchanged and furloughed, but at the expiration of 
his furlough was found unable to perform duty in the 
field, and was ordered to the hospital at Annapolis, Md., 
where he remained until July, 1865, when he was able 
to return home and receive his discharge. Since that 
time Comrade Davis has been engaged in various lines 
of business life, and has received his share of success 
in each. Farming, tanning, teaming, have all been 
made to yield an income, but now the direction of a 
flourishing meat-market at Newport employs a large 
portion of his time and energy. In 1866 he married 
Mary E. Thompson of Antrim, by whom he is the father 
of three children. The eldest of these, Emma J., is 
the wife of William H. Wright of Concord. The others, 
George A. and Walter E., reside at Newport. 



SANFORD DINSMORE. 

" I enlisted July 4, 1862, in the town of Colebrook, 
where I was born. John G. Lewis was the recruiting 
officer. I was but seventeen years old, and the youngest 
in the company so far as I know. We went to Lancas- 
ter, and stayed through July and a part of August. Mr. 
Lewis got some twenty more recruits, and then we went 
to Concord and joined the regiment. Our squad was 
made a part of Company H, with Capt. C. W. Edgerly 
as our senior officer and Mr. Lewis as first lieutenant. 
Our squad clubbed together and bought Lieutenant Lewis 



688 NINTH NE IV HAMPSHIRE. 

a very handsome sword with a belt and a gold tassel ; but 
he would not wear the tassel, as he thought it was not suited 
to his rank. I remember that when we presented him the 
sword he shed tears and was much affected at our good- 
will. As my parents were dead, I had chosen Lieutenant 
Lewis as my guardian, and so was somewhat more in- 
timate with him than the other privates in our company. 
He was a grand, good man, and as brave as a lion. 

" From Concord I went with the regiment to the front, 
and was with it in the battles of South Mountain and 
Antietam. In both of these engagements I tried to do 
my duty the best that I could. I was one that volunteered 
to go on the skirmish line at Antietam, after we crossed 
the stone bridge, and was one of the first to meet Long- 
street's troops when they came from Harper's Ferry. I 
was with the regiment up to the time we started for the 
Rappahannock, but on that march I was taken down 
with diarrhea, and being unable to keep in the ranks 
was left behind. When the doctor came along and saw 
how weak I was he gave me a written permit for absence, 
and told me to report to my company as soon as I was 
able. 

'* I followed the regiment as far as Fayetteville, when 
I could go no farther. A good woman took me in and 
cared for me until a squad of rebel cavalry came along 
and took me prisoner. Finding that I could not walk, 
they put me on parole, and took away m}' arms. I had 
some queer adventures while I was in the rebel lines, 
and as they would not let me go back to join my regi- 
ment, I had to make my way to Washington as best I 
could. I reported to the provost-marshal, and was sent 
to Camp Parole at Annapolis. After being there two 
months, and seeing no prospect of being exchanged, I 



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and another young fellow made up our minds to break 
our paroles and ship in the navy for a year, and then go 
back to the regiment. 

" I was only seventeen years old, and did not think I 
was doing anything wrong to the government, but for 
that act I was marked on the roster as a deserter. I 
went to New York, and on January 16, 1863, enlisted in 
the navy for a year. I was put on the frigate Colorado^ 
was at Mobile during the blockade, and did not get back 
to Boston until June 4, 1864. During my service in the 
navy I received an injury to my left knee that forever 
disabled me for infantry service. I tried to enlist in the 
artillery, but did not pass muster, and so went back to 
my home. I have an honorable discharge from the 
navy, and am drawing a pension of two dollars per 
month on account of the injury to my knee. I do not 
expect to have a very good record in the history of the 
Ninth New Hampshire, but if my old comrades can 
know all the circumstances of my service, I am willing 
they should judge how far I came short of doing my 
duty to my country." 

[After reading Comrade Dinsmore's statement of the 
facts connected with his apparent desertion, as recorded 
in the regimental roster, the Publishing Committee 
unanimously decided to give it a place in the history, 
that justice might be done so far as was possible at this 
late day. — Edito7-.'\ 



NEWELL T. BUTTON. 



Newell Tracy Dutton was born in Claremont, October 
5, 1840. There his boyhood days were passed, and he 
was a regular attendant at the public schools and the 



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690 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. 

academy until he was seventeen. The next two years 
he hv^ed with an uncle in Periy, Ohio. Work on the 
farm alternated with attendance at school, and in the 
winter of 1858-9 he taught his first term of school. 
Here, too, he was converted, and became connected 
with the Baptist church in 1858. Returning to Clare- 
mont in 1859, ^^^ went to New London the following 
year, and in 1861 began a regular course of study at 
the New London Literary and Scientific institution (now 
Colb}' academy). 

When the call for troops came in 1861, he greatly 
desired to enlist, but two younger brothers had entered 
the service, and the idea generally prevailed that the 
Rebellion would be of short duration ; so the student 
devoted himself to his books. After McClellan's defeat 
came Lincoln's call for 300,000 men, and feeling that 
the time had come when he could be of service, he deter- 
mined to enlist. Learning that a number of students from 
Kimball Union academy, at Meriden, had enlisted in a 
body at Lebanon, he decided to put his name with theirs ; 
and though all of them were entire strangers to him at 
the time, he never regretted his choice of companions. 
For Christian character, lofty aims, and pure patriotism, 
that little band of student volunteer soldiers could not be 
excelled. His enlistment as private was made at Leb- 
anon, August 5, and that same day the men went to 
Concord. The following day saw them mustered in and 
assigned to Company E of the Ninth regiment. 

For the nearly three years following his history was 
that of the regiment. With the exception of a twenty 
days furlough in February, 1865, he was not absent 
from its ranks, and excused from duty but six days 
on account of sickness. He was on every march the 



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regiment made, and in every engagement of the score 
or more fought. He did not see the inside of a hos- 
pital as a patient, and was never wounded, though his 
clothes were pierced and he was struck by spent balls. 
May I, 1864, he was promoted to be corporal, and de- 
tailed as color guard. Within two weeks he was made 
color corporal, and given the State colors to carr}^ 
August I he was raised to the rank of color sergeant, 
and took the National colors, carrying them until Octo- 
ber I, when he was appointed acting sergeant-major, 
and received his commission as such in February, 1865. 
During the five months between May i and September 
30, 1864, fifteen different men carried the other stand of 
colors, and over six hundred men were lost to the regi- 
ment, being either killed, wounded, or captured. Finally 
the State colors were captured, with the bearer, in the 
battle of the latter date, at Poplar Grove church, Va. ; 
but Sergeant Button brought out the National colors, 
himself unscathed, together with the handful of men 
that remained to the regiment. When he had taken the 
flag its colors were fresh and its folds unmarred ; he 
returned it stained with the blood of heroes, and mutely 
witnessing the storm of lead and iron through which it 
had been borne in the riddled and tattered fragment 
which still clung to the stafl'. If there is no mistake 
Sergeant Dutton was one of two men who saw all the 
service of the Ninth regiment during the last three years 
of the war in the land of " Dixie." A kind Providence 
cared for him in all the exigencies of camp, march, and 
battle, and brought him again to Concord in June, 1865, 
to be mustered out with the regiment. 

After his return from the war Sergeant Dutton at once 
resumed his studies at New London, and as he had 



692 iXJXTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. 

decided to make the ministry his vocation, the following 
year saw him entered at Brown university, from which 
he graduated in 1870. Immediately continuing his 
preparation for the ministry at Newton Theological 
seminary, he graduated from this institution in 1873. 
August 19 of the same year he was ordained to the min- 
istry as pastor of the Baptist church in Warren, Me. 
He remained with his first charge ten years. In August, 
1883, he became pastor of the Baptist church in Houlton, 
Me., where another ten years pastorate bore witness to 
the faithfulness of the shepherd. August, 1893, saw him 
settled with the Baptist church in Fairfield, Me., where 
he has since made his home. In his chosen vocation he 
has borne the colors of the great Captain just as faith- 
fully as he raised the standard of his state and country in 
the cause of Freedom, and the same kind Providence has 
abundantly blessed his labors. For twenty-three years 
he has been a trustee of the Maine Baptist Missionary 
convention. In 1883 he was made trustee of Ricker 
Classical institute, at Houlton, and in 1889 trustee of 
Colby university, at Waterville, Me., in both of which 
positions he still serves most acceptably. In all that per- 
tains to the religious and educational affairs of the Bap- 
tist denomination in his adopted state, Comrade Button 
has had a growing interest, service, and usefulness. 



MINOT ELLIS. 

A native of Keene, and a resident of that bustling 
town during the years of his minority, it w^as but natural 
that Minot Ellis should be numbered among the young 
men who were so largely in proportion among the mem- 
bers of Company I. He was mustered in, and out, with 



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the regiment ; never had a furlough or was sick in the 
hospital, and never was detailed away from the regi- 
ment. Though participating in every battle save one, 
when he was sick in camp, Comrade Ellis escaped in- 
jury, though on one occasion one man on his right and 
two on his left were shot down at the same time. Once 
he was taken prisoner, but managed to escape to the 
Union lines. He was promoted to be corporal Nov- 
ember I, 1864. Some one asked Corporal Ellis once if 
he ever "took" anything while he was in the army. 
"No, sir;" was the ready reply, "I never took anything 
but top rails, or whatever I could put my hands on." 



GEORGE VV. EVERETT. 

On November 19, 1819, there was born at New Lon- 
don, amid the hills and mountains of western New 
Hampshire, a boy who was destined to be conspicuous 
in the history of his town and state because of his native 
ability and later acquirements, which gave him promi- 
nence in military as well as in civil life. His family 
name, Everett, is a familiar one in American history, and 
its representatives in New London had been highly re- 
spected, even from the very settlement of that town which 
has been so distinguished for good and patriotic citizens 
of commanding influence in the councils of the Granite 
state. To the lad then born his parents gave the name 
George, and the best education possible in the schools of 
the town and at the New London academy. He then 
studied law with Walter P. Flanders, Esq., and prac- 
tised his profession in his native town, which he repre- 
sented in the state legislature. He had also been solici- 
tor for the county of Merrimack. He left all the emolu- 



694 ■^'^^' ^-^ ^^- ^ ^^ MPSHIRE. 

ments of his profession to accept the majority of the 
Ninth New Hampshire volunteers, to which he was com- 
missioned August 26, 1862. On the return from the 
Mississippi campaign he was seriously ill, and died 
August 27, 1863, at Cincinnati, Ohio, from poison admin- 
istered by his body-servant, a young darkey, w'ho was 
afterwards imprisoned for his crime. Major Everett left 
a widow (born Ellen Frances Lane, of Gloucester, 
Mass.,) and three children: George W. Everett, now of 
Danvers, Mass; Mrs. George M. Peabody, also of Dan- 
vers, and John R. Everett of Rockport, Mass. 



ENOCH Q. FELLOWS. 

Enoch Q^ Fellows, the Ninth New Hampshire's first 
colonel, was a native of Sandwich, and was born June 
20, 1825, the son of John and Mary J. Fellows. His 
maternal great-grandfather, Aaron Qiiimby, was a cap- 
tain in the Revolution, and ensign in an alarm company 
in 1787, with the rank of major. His paternal grand- 
father, Stephen Fellows, was a butcher, and of Fremont 
(then Poplin), but when, during the Revolution, the 
rumor came that the British were landing at Hampton 
beach, he said he " run forty bullets as quick as ever 
forty bullets were run," and taking his gun, mounted his 
horse and started for the beach. Though the rumor 
proved to be only a rumor, yet the patriot farmer had 
manifested both zeal and courage. 

Until he was seventeen the future colonel attended the 
district schools and town academy when not at work, but 
he had early determined to obtain a higher education, 
and step by step he earned his way until he finally 
secured an appointment at West Point. Entering on his 



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nineteenth birthday, he at once took a cjood standing in 
his class, ranking eighth at the time of his voluntary 
resignation in 1846, when, at the urgent solicitation of his 
father, he returned to his home at Sandwich. Among 
his schoolfellows at West Point were his later com- 
rades-in-arms, Generals Burnside, McClellan, Couch, 
Reno, and " Stonewall" Jackson. Most of the time till 
1854 ^^ worked at home, holding several high positions 
in the state militia, and for four years serving as door- 
keeper in the New Hampshire senate. 

From 1854 ^^ ^^57 he held the position of inspector in 
the Boston custom house, and the next four years were 
passed in Sandwich. In April, 1861, the moment he 
saw President Lincoln's proclamation calling for seventy- 
five thousand troops, he ofi^ered his services to the adju- 
tant-general of the state, and was immediately ordered 
to report at Concord. He was at once employed in 
drilling recruits, and assisted in the organization of the 
First regiment, and was offered a captaincy in it. This 
he declined, though he immediately enlisted as a private, 
then was commissioned as first lieutenant of Company 
K, and was detailed as adjutant. He was mustered out 
with the regiment August 9, 1861, and the following 
day was commissioned colonel of the Third regiment, 
serving as ranking colonel in Sherman's expedition 
down the coast, in which the regiment participated. In 
the winter of 1861-2 he was stationed, with his regiment, 
at Hilton Head, S. C, and held the position of first 
commandant of the post. 

When General Sherman was relieved in the spring of 
1862, Colonel Fellows mentioned to him that he had 
been in the service continuously for a year, and had been 
intending to ask for a leave of absence General Sher- 



696 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. 

man told him to make an application to his successor 
and he would indorse it, which he did in very flattering 
terms ; and the leave of absence was speedily forth- 
coming. Just then, however, a movement was made on 
Fort Pulaski, and re-enforcements were needed atEdisto 
island, near Charlestown. The Third regiment was 
recommended for the position, so Colonel Fellows wrote 
to General Benham that if he could be of any assistance 
he would defer his leave of absence. General Benham 
accepted his offer, and put him in command of all the 
troops at Edisto. After Pulaski had fallen Colonel Fel- 
lows was relieved and came home. While at home he 
was requested by the governor to take command of the 
Ninth regiment, which was being organized at Concord, 
and needed the services of a skilled veteran like Colonel 
Fellows ; so on the 26th of June, 1862, he resigned from 
the Third and took command of the Ninth. 

It was under his leadership that the regiment won its 
appellation of the "Bloody Ninth." In November, after 
the Battle of Antietam, Colonel Fellows resigned rather 
than' ask for another leave of absence. The regiment 
was then marching in Virginia, and the cold rains and 
occasional snows brought on the neuralgia so bad that it 
was impossible for him to remain with his regiment. 
He was recommended by the governor and council to 
President Lincoln for appointment as brigadier-general 
of the United States volunteers. His strong hereditary 
liking for the pomp of military life was the reason for 
his entering West Point, and his education there, com- 
bined with his natural tendencies, made him one of the 
best drill officers in the state. 

Since the war Colonel Fellows has made his home in 
Sandwich, though his business interests have been mostly 



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in the West. He was a member of the legislature from 
Sandwich in 1868, 1869, and 1877, and served as a 
member of the military and railroad committees. The 
story of his life is that of a self-made, upright man, and 
like that of many others, is best known by his soldier 
comrades. He treated all of his men well, and was 
always ready to listen to any proper complaint and to 
right any wrong ; while the soldier is yet to be found 
who cherishes a grievance against his old commander. 



ALMON J. FLETCHER. 

Comrade Almon J. Fletcher, Company G, was a na- 
tive of Acworth, though residing in Lempster at the 
time of his enlistment, when he was twenty years of age. 
He was with the regiment but a few months, yet made a 
good record as a soldier. He participated in two battles, 
those of South Mountain and Antietam, and was wounded 
in the latter. While in the hospital he did everything in 
his power to aid his comrades less fortunate than himself, 
and it was by lifting a helpless soldier that Comrade 
Fletcher received the injury to his back which disabled 
him for active service, and for which he was discharged 
February 28, 1863. Since that time he has been unable 
to do any hard work, suffering pain constantly, and 
being compelled to wear a stiff corset to support his 
injured spine. 



J. FRANK FOSTER. 

This comrade was a member of Company I. He 
enlisted from Nelson, August 11, 1862, left Camp Colby 
with the regiment, and was in the battles of South Moun- 
tain, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Wilderness, Spottsyl- 



698 NINTH NE W HAMPSHIRE. 

vania, Bethesda Church, Cold Harbor, the Mine, Wel- 
don Railroad, and Poplar Springs Church. At the last 
place, September 30, 1864, he was taken prisoner, and 
underwent the tortures of prospective and long continued 
captivity, described by himself in Chapter XVIII, but 
on October 8 was fortunate enough to be paroled. He 
was taken to Annapolis, and in March, 1865, received a 
furlough that he might go home and vote. While on his 
way to exercise the much prized right of suffrage he 
was severely injured in a railway accident at Bristol, 
Pa., and did not return to his regiment. Comrade Fos- 
ter was wounded in a raid from Newport News, Va., in 
February, 1863, and was in the hospital at Baltimore 
when the regiment was ordered to Kentucky, so that he 
lost the first experiences in the Blue Grass region and the 
Mississippi campaign. He is now engaged in manufact- 
uring wedding and fancy cake specialties at 709 Broad- 
way, South Boston, Mass. 



EDWARD M. GUSHEE. 

The Rev. Edward M. Gushee, at the time he was 
commissioned, was rector of St. Thoinas's church, Dover. 
He joined the regiment at Concord, and was with it con- 
tinuously until his resignation, at the expiration of one 
year, this being the time he had been given a vacation 
by his parish. The chaplain was with the regiment at 
the battles of South Mountain, Antietam, Fredericks- 
burg, and Jackson, Miss. At the time of battle he aided 
the surgeons in the selection and preparation of a build- 
ing for a hospital, and in caring for the wounded as they 
were brought in. He was fond of the officers and men 
and of their society. 



BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 699 

Notwithstanding that the regiment was so actively 
engaged, and so often on the march, many Sunday ser- 
vices were held that year. On several Sundays, at the 
request of General Nagle, Chaplain Gushee conducted 
services for the whole brigade. On one Sunday, after 
the Battle of Antietam, General McClellan sent for him 
to preach at his head-quarters. On two or three occa- 
sions Sunday services were held in churches offered to 
the chaplain for this purpose. This happened at Lex- 
ington and Nicholsville. In Mississippi, while encamped 
at Milldale, a sermon was delivered on the foolish habit 
of continually using oaths in conversation, which dealt 
with the matter in very plain language, that might have 
caused offence had there not been a very cordial relation 
between the speaker and his hearers. Besides this he 
was accustomed to accompany his regiment on dress 
parade, where he offered a prayer when the parade was 
formed. This he did with the approval of the officer in 
command, and the prayer being simply one of the short 
collects of the Episcopal church, the men were not 
wearied by the additional time spent on parade, while 
the day was fittingly brought to its close. 

The chaplain had made a great many warm friends 
when the time came for his resignation and return to his 
parish, and since the war he has frequently met with the 
regiment at their annual reunion at The Weirs. The 
Rev. Edward M. Gushee, D. D., is now the rector of St. 
Phillip's church, Cambridge, Mass., in which city a large 
part of his ministry has been passed. He was born at 
Providence, R. I., and is a graduate of Brown university. 
He is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, and 
delivered an oration at Cambridge, Memorial Day, 1893. 
The following letter, of recent date, explains itself: 



7 OO NINTH NE W HA MPS HIRE. 

" I look back with great pleasure and with very 
tender feelings to the days when I was associated with 
the Ninth New Hampshire regiment, as chaplain. The 
friendships then formed and cemented have been cherished 
in my memory always. I think we had very excellent 
and very agreeable officers, and a large proportion of 
worthy men in the ranks. I do not remember an 
instance of anything but gentlemanly and cordial rela- 
tions among the officers, a fact which I had occasion to 
know was remarked in other regiments. Certainly the 
record of the Ninth for bravery, from the time of their 
intrepid charge at South Mountain, to the end, is one to 
be proud of. I am glad to know that individual instances 
of prowess were recognized by congress. 

"My own relations, as chaplain, were very grateful 
to me. I remember many kindnesses, both from officers 
and men. They were very companionable, and I enjoyed 
their society. Religious services cannot always be held 
in the army as often as one would desire, but when I 
consider how much campaigning was done by the Ninth 
the year I was with them, I sometimes wonder that we 
enjoyed as many religious services as we did. The 
scene recurs to me frequently, of some of those occasions 
when we were assembled for Divine worship, the extem- 
porized desk — some hard-tack boxes covered with a flag, 
the band of the Ninth at hand to render some old and 
familiar sacred tunes, and the regiment, and sometimes 
the brigade, grouped around me. Then, again, I think 
of the sad scenes during a battle — the dead and the 
wounded — the sick and discouraged in the hospitals — 
and the sorrowful letters I had to write to bereaved 
friends. 

"I was a young clergyman when commissioned, 



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almost the youngest officer, except perhaps the young 
lawyer, Adjutant Chandler, my tViend. I was also a 
stranger to almost all. But the officers and men soon 
gave me then- friendship and confidence, and made my 
position agreeable. It is difficult to realize that we were 
actors in those stirring times which have now passed into 
history. When we look back upon them it seems like a 
dream, save when we meet some members of the regi- 
ment and recall more vividly the old associations. It is 
pleasant to do this. I hope that many more reunions 
may be enjoyed here on earth, and fondly cherish the 
thought of the joyful reunion in the great hereafter. 

"Very truly yours, 

" Edward M. Gushee." 



WILLIAM H. HARTWELL. 
At the explosion of the Mine, July 30, 1864, Sergt. 
Maj. Franklin H. Foster was seized by the Confed- 
erates and carried into fatal captivity at Salisbury, N. C. 
He was succeeded on the non-commissioned staff by 
Sergt. WilHam H. Hartwell of Company I, who acted 
as sergeant-major until September 30, 1864, when he 
was captured at Poplar Springs church, Va. Sergeant 
Hartwell is a native of Langdon. He enlisted August 11, 
1862, at the age of twenty-one years, and was assigned to 
Company I ; was appointed corporal December 10, 1862, 
and promoted to be sergeant the following May. He was 
released from the rebel prison February 28, 1865, and 
discharged June 12, of that year, at Baltimore, Md. 
Since the war he has become a citizen of Warren county, 
Illinois, where he has taken a prominent place in busi- 
ness and pohtical life. His successes have been a source 
of much pleasure to his comrades of the regiment. 



702 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. 

A. PAUL HORNE. 

Among the many efficient soldiers furnished from the 
farming regions of the Granite state is numbered A. 
Paul Home, who was born in Alexandria, the son of 
Noah and Theresa A. (Bellows) Home. In 1862 young 
Paul, then sixteen years of age, was tilling the soil in the 
town of Bristol, where he enlisted on May 4. He was 
mustered into the Ninth regiment July 22, and remained 
with it from then till the Battle of Fredericksburg, when 
iie was wounded and sent to the hospital. Rejoining his 
regiment at Aquia Creek, he participated in the Mis- 
sissippi campaign and the Kentucky experiences. He 
was one of the famous head-quarters guard of General 
Potter, but passed some weeks in the Camp Dennison 
(Ohio) hospital. Returning to Virginia he was captured 
at Spottsylvania, and had the misfortune to undergo the 
trials and suffering so graphically described by him in 
another chapter. He was released in December, 1864, 
^nd was mustered out with the regiment, after which, as 
the agent of a New York firm, he was employed for six 
months in the Pennsylvania oil region, and then in Boston 
-as a clerk for Russell & Phelps, household furnishers. 
After this he was at Lowell, in the Lowell machine shop, 
and while in that city in 1866, found not only his wife, 
who was born in Monroe, Me., and whose maiden name 
was Frances B. Ricker, but also his life-work, when he 
entered the weaving department of the Appleton mills. 
This business he has followed ever since — not only at 
Lowell, but at Chicopee Falls, Chicopee, Holyoke, and 
New Bedford, Mass., and at Salmon Falls and Manches- 
ter, this state. In the last named city he now lives, the 
superintendent of weaving in the Amory and Langdon 



BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 703 

mills, and a public-spirited and influential citizen. While 
at Salmon Falls, Comrade Home was elected one of the 
selectmen of Rollinsford, and at Manchester he is a 
member of the city's board of education. He has been 
president of the Regimental association, in whose service 
he has never flagged. As a prominent resident of the 
Queen city, and a man of sound judgment, ever loyal to 
his party and friends. Comrade Home's influence in the 
councils of the Republican party has been by no means 
inconsiderable. He has two children livincr : Adrian 
L., who occupies a responsible position in the Manches- 
ter National bank, and Lester Porter, who lives with his 
parents. 



ANDREW J. HOUGH. 

Andrew Jackson Hough was born in Dover, August 8, 
1837. He was the son of English parents, who came to 
this country from Manchester, England, where the father 
had been employed as a calico printer, in 1827. He 
attended the public schools of Dover until thirteen years 
of age, when he went as apprentice designer and sketch- 
maker into the Cocheco Print Works of that city. After 
serving his apprenticeship he married, February 22, 
1858, Miss Mary E., daughter of Alonzo and Mary 
Roberts, of Dover. When in May, 1862, the governor 
of New Hampshire was asked to raise an additional 
regiment of infantry, the sturdy young Briton was 
among the first to respond to the call. Enlisting as a 
private, on the organization of the Ninth regiment he was 
commissioned as first lieutenant of Company D, about 
forty Dover men being enrolled in the same company. 
After the second engagement of the regiment, which was 
the hard fought Battle of Antietam, the young lieutenant, 



704 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. 

greatly to his own surprise, was promoted to be captain 
of Company I, receiving his commission as such Nov- 
ember 2, 1862. 

Then came the terrible contest that was waged on the 
slopes of Fredericksburg, the hardships of the winter of 
1862-3, and the fatal Mississippi campaign, in all of 
which Captain " Jack " was ever to be found at the post 
of duty, with always a cheery w^ord of encouragement 
for his men. They were proud of a leader who when 
there was danger to be faced simply said " Come on, 
boys ! " and himself headed the assaulting column. On 
the return of the regiment to Kentucky he was detailed 
as aide and provost-marshal on the staff of General 
Frye, whose head-quarters were at Nicholasville, but 
rejoined his regiment when it set out for Knoxville in 
February, 1864. 

In the fierce and bloody battles that characterized the 
campaign of the Army of the Potomac during the spring 
and summer of 1864, Captain Hough won fresh laurels in 
the service of his country, the command of the regiment 
devolving upon him, by order of General Griffin, May 
18, 1864. The campaign culminated in the Battle of the 
Mine, before Petersburg, July 30. Through the fright- 
ful scenes of the early morning Captain Hough was per- 
fectly self-possessed, and so fearless of danger that his 
comrades begged of him again and again not to expose 
himself so recklessly. When the colored troops came 
crowding into the crater, closely followed by the enemy, 
Captain Hough made a last desperate efibrt to rally the 
disorganized body of men around him, but was struck 
down by a Minie ball through the throat and head just as 
he had called to the men to rally on the colors ; and in the 
rush and confusion which followed, and the final aban- 



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donment of the ground then held, his fall gave rise to the 
report that the gallant captain had been instantly killed. 

Not every man has the good fortune to be able to pass 
judgment on the obituaries which his friends prepare 
after his supposed decease; but Captain "Jack" was 
deserving of all the good words penned by comrades 
and friends in lienor of the man whom they sincerely 
mourned. After lying on the field for thirty-six hours he 
was removed to Libby prison, where he remained for six 
months. He was paroled in December, 1864, and dis- 
charged, on account of the frightful wound he had 
received, June 22, 1865. After his return home he was 
brevetted major lor his gallant conduct on the field. He 
resumed his former position in the Cocheco printery, 
but in 1867 accepted an offer from Providence, R. I. 
In 1872 he entered the employ of the Hamilton mills 
at Lowell, Mass., and ten years later removed to North 
Adams, Mass., where he still pursues his trade of 
designer and sketch-maker in the Freeman Print Works. 
He is a member of Strafford lodge, F. and A. M., of 
Dover ; past noble grand of Merrimac lodge, I. O. O. F., 
and past chief patriarch of Neonomake encampment, 
•I. O. O. F. In 1889 he was appointed commander of 
the C. D. Sanford post, G. A. R., and has served three 
terms in that capacity. 

Major Hough, as he is familiarly known, is a man of 
fine personal appearance and physique, standing nearly 
six feet high and having an erect bearing which plainly 
marks him as a military man. He is one who has 
made many friends wherever he is known, and possesses 
a cordial and genial manner which would at once impress 
one with respect and confidence. As a citizen he is un- 
usually admired for his many fine and manly qualities. 

XLV 



7o6 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. 

LEVI HOWARD. 

Comrade Howard was a native of Rochester, born 
February 25, 1829. He enlisted in that town July 23, 
1862, was assigned to Company H, and was captured at 
South Mountain, September 14, 1862. He was dis- 
charged July 10, 1865, at Concord, thirty-two of his 
thirty-six months' service having been passed in Ander- 
sonville and Libby prisons. Weighing ordinarily one 
hundred and sixty-five pounds, his friends at Rochester 
were horrified at his appearance when he returned weigh- 
ing onl}^ ninety-six pounds, and so weak physically and 
mentally that he could not tell the year, month, or day of 
the month. He recovered, however, and was able to fol- 
low his trade, carpentering. On August 12, 1890, he 
died at Augusta, Me., leaving a widow and three children. 
He is buried at South Berwick, Me. 



DANIEL E. KURD. 

D. Emerson Hurd, as that comrade usually writes his 
name, was born in Lempster, and on August 19, 1862, at 
the age of eighteen, enlisted for three years and became 
a member of Company G. He was with the regiment at 
South Mountain, Antietam, and Fredericksburg, but on 
February 7, 1863, was sent to Eckington hospital, Wash- 
ington, very sick with camp fever and chronic diarrhea. 
The following April he was furloughed for forty days, and 
at the end of that time reported at Concord ; but instead 
of being sent to the front, was so enfeebled that he was 
ordered to the hospital in that city, where he remained till 
August 10, a part of the time officiating as nurse. He then 
became orderly for recruiting officer Maj. J. H. Whittle- 
sey, until October 17, when he was discharged for general 



BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 707 

disability. In 1864 he married Ruth M. Bruce, sister of 
George O. Bruce of Company G, and in 1865 began 
blacksmithing at Warner, which trade he followed, there 
and at Fisherville (now Penacook), and at Topsfield, 
Mass., until 1882, with the exception of two years, 
1870-2, when he was turnkey in the Essex County 
(Mass.) house of correction. On account of increasing 
illness he was obliged to quit working at his trade, so 
bought a farm near Westminster Depot, Mass., where 
he now resides. At Topsfield, Mass., Comrade Hurd 
served his town on the school committee, and has per- 
formed the same public service at Westminster for several 
successive years. He is a deacon of the Congregational 
church, and a prominent Odd Fellow, having passed all 
the chairs in the subordinate lodge and performed official 
dudes in the grand lodge. He has four children. The 
oldest, Arno E., has been captain of Camp ioi,S. of V., 
at Westminster. The second, Albert G., has studied 
medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and the 
others, a boy and a girl, are at home. 



CHARLES O. HURLBUTT. 
Charles O. Hurlbutt of Lebanon was born on a Grafton 
county farm in the town of Hanover, September 22, 
1844. His parents were Elihu and Emeline L. (Goodell) 
Hurlbutt. His education was obtained in the public 
schools of his native town, at the Newbury (Vt.) academy, 
and at Meriden. He was one of the "Kimball Union 
squad," and enlisted, at the age of sixteen, in Company E 
of the Ninth New Hampshire, following its fortunes until 
the close of the war. At the Battle of South Mountain, 
though a mere lad, he took single-handed, in the midst 



7 o8 NINTH NEW HA MPS HI RE. 

of a dense growth of laurel, the first prisoner ever taken 
by his regiment. 

After the expiration of his time of service, he engaged 
in lumber business at Lyme, and upon the burning of 
his mill took charge of important milling interests in 
Deerfield, Mass. About 1870 he removed to Lebanon, 
and has since resided there, for thirteen years being 
engaged in the lumber business. He represented 
Lebanon in the legislatures of 1878 and 1879, serving 
in both upon the railroad committee and being a practi- 
cal, working member. During President Harrison's 
administration he was deputy collector of internal 
revenue for the district of New Hampshire, and was 
quartermaster-general on the staff' of Gov. David H. 
Goodell. In 1892, General Hurlbutt, who had pre- 
viously served two terms as deputy and one as high 
sheriff, was elected to the shrievalty of Grafton county, 
to which position he was re-elected in 1894. It was he 
who performed the execution of the notorious criminal, 
Frank C. Almy. His official duties have been per- 
formed at all times quietly, promptly, wisely, and 
economically. Personally, General Hurlbutt is a very 
genial and companionable gentleman, whose unfailing 
kindness of heart and helping hand make hosts of 
friends who stay. 



JAMES B. KIMBALL. 

There died at Newton, December 14, 1888, a comrade 
of Company A whose war record was of the best, 
and whose subsequent career in civil life was marked by 
faithful service in many capacities. His name was 
James B. Kimball. Born at Newton, and enlisting June 



BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 709 

16, 1862, at the age of eighteen, he was in the service 
of the regiment, as private, corporal, and sergeant, until 
June 10, 1865. At Spottsylvania he was wounded. 
After the Rebellion he returned to Newton, and engaged 
in the wood and lumber business, and sometimes bought 
apples in that section of Rockingham county as the 
agent of a Boston firm. He had held nearly every 
elective and appointive office in his native town, and at 
the time of his death had just been elected to a two years 
term as the town's representative to the state legislature. 
A member of the Christian church and of the local 
G. A. R. post, a prominent Odd Fellow, and alive to 
every good work, his loss has told heavily on the Newton 
people. He left a widow and five children. 



JAMES W. LATHE. 

There lived in 1837, at Coventry, Vt., a farmer and 
cooper, Aaron Lathe, who had formerly been a lumber- 
man along the St. Lawrence, although he was born at 
Petersham, Mass. During his stay in Canada he met 
and married Esther Fordyce, of Dunham, in the present 
province of Quebec. This worthy couple had three 
sons, Freeman L., James W., and Hiram S., who were 
in Manchester in 1862, and in July of that year enlisted 
in the Ninth New Hampshire volunteers. Of them Dr. 
Webster, the surgeon, said after his examination, that 
they were " the three best-bodied men in the regiment." 
One of them, Freeman L., was captured at South Moun- 
tain, but was afterwards exchanged, and rejoined the reg- 
iment at Falmouth, remaining with it during the rest of 
its service. 

Another of these sons, Hiram S., was shot through 



7 1 NINTH NE W HAMPSHIRE. 

the patella, at South Mountain, being the first man 
wounded in the regiment, and was in the hospital at 
Frederick, Md., until February 25, 1863, when he was 
discharged. 

The other brother, James W., was with the regiment 
from the beginning until he was severely wounded in the 
left hand at the Mine, July 30, 1864, and sent to Mount 
Pleasant hospital, Washington, where he was discharged 
disabled the following December. 

James was largely instrumental in the recruiting of 
Company F, and at Camp Colby was appointed one of 
its corporals. On January i, 1863, he was appointed 
sergeant, and he was from the beginning one of the 
sturdiest and truest among his sturdy and true comrades, 
and one of the most influential men in the regiment. 
Colonel Titus has repeatedly told the story of how, in- 
quiring of the adjutant who was the most trustworthy 
sergeant in the regiment, that officer replied without hes- 
itation, "Sergeant Lathe." On account of this remark, 
and his known fidelity, Sergeant Lathe was frequently 
detailed for specially arduous and dangerous service. 

His war record is best given in a recommendation for 
promotion which he received from Captain Case, De- 
cember 5, 1864. It reads as follows : 

Camp qth Regiment, N. H. Vol. Infantry. 
Near Weldon R. R., Va., December 5, 1866. 

To whom it may concern : 

I have the honor to certify that Sergt. J. W. Lathe has been a mem- 
ber of my company since its organization, at Concord, N. H., in 
August, 1862, and it affords me pleasure to bear witness to his uniform 
good habits and efficiency as a non-commissioned officer, as well as his 
coolness and bravery in action. lie has done duty with his company 
most of the time since its formation, and has participated with it in 





Capt. Ludo B. Little, Co. A. 



BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 711 

some ten battles, in all of which he has won the respect of his supe- 
rior officers by his energy and gallantry. 

He was wounded in action near Petersburg, Va., July 30, 1864, 
while commanding his company, and for his marked bravery on that 
occasion was highly complimented by the commanding officer of his 
regiment. 

I take pleasure in recommending him for promotion, as I consider 

him worthy. 

Very respectfully, 

E. T. Case, 

Capt. Co. F, gt/i A: H. V. 

For a year or two after the war Comrade Lathe was 
able to do very little work, because of his wounded 
hand, but for the next twenty years was employed by the 
corporations of Manchester in various capacities. Dur- 
ing the last eight years he has retired from active service 
for others, and devoted his time to the management of 
his own somewhat extensive real estate interests at the 
Queen city, which he has served in various offices. In 
1887 he represented his ward in the legislature. He has 
been a prominent figure in the affairs of the Regimental 
association. 

On January 21, i860, Mr. Latiie married Laura 
Morse, a native of Londonderry. They have had th.ree 
children. A daughter, Hattie, died in 1886, in her six- 
teenth year. Their two sons, aged seventeen and four- 
teen, live at home. The elder, Ernest W., is a clerk at 
the Manchester freight station of the Boston & Maine 
railroad ; the younger, J. Arthur, is attending school. 



LUDO B. LITTLE. 



Ludo Burrill Little was born in the town of Lyman, 
Grafton county, in October, 1838. He was the son of 
Joseph and Mary (Cobleigh) Little. At the age of 



712 NINTH NE W HAMPSHIRE. 

seventeen he enlisted in the United States Marine corps 
as a private, for the period of four years. July i6, 1861, 
his term of service having expired, he was discharged as 
a corporal at the Philadelphia navy yard, and a year 
later enlisted as a private in Company B of the Ninth 
regiment. Mustered in as sergeant, he shared the for- 
tunes of the Ninth through all its wanderings and vicissi- 
tudes. His daring and gallantry in the field raised him 
to the rank of captain of Company A, his commission as 
such dating from January i, 1864. He was twice 
wounded while in the service, at Fredericksburg and in 
the trenches before Petersburg. The latter wound, a 
Minie ball striking the right foot and carrying away 
three toes and breaking a fourth, resulted in permanent 
disability. 

Captain Little was discharged at Annapolis, October 
24, 1864, and at once entered the law school at x\nn 
Arbor, Michigan. After graduating, he began the prac- 
tice of his profession at Albany, N. Y., and was admit- 
ted to the supreme court of that state in 1873. Some 
years later his health became so much impaired that he 
removed to Nebraska in the hope of securing relief. A 
bronchial trouble developed here, he was again com- 
pelled to move, and settled in Nevada City, Cal., in 
1885. For five years he enjo3'ed an active and success- 
ful practice, and then the brave and loyal soldier, the 
able lawyer, the honored citizen, was called to his last, 
long home, March 2, 1890. He was a member of the 
Masonic fraternit3s past commander of Chattanooga 
post, G. A. R., and a zealous supporter of the auxiliar}' 
circle of the Ladies of the G. A. R. Captain Little left 
a widow, Mary E. (Shurtleft') Little, and one son, 
Hazen Jesse. 



BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 713 

JOHN E. MASON. 

John Edwin Mason was born at Petersham, Mass., 
but was a resident of Manchester in 1862, and on August 
10 of that year was appointed second lieutenant of Com- 
pany F. He was mustered in August 23, and remained 
in the service until March 9, 1865, when he was discharged 
on account of disability. He acted as assistant adjutant- 
general on the staff' of Gen. S. D. Sturgis, and on 
November 22, 1862, was made first lieutenant of Com- 
pany D. After the war, Comrade Mason studied medi- 
cine at Georgetown college, District of Columbia, from 
which he received the degree of M. D. He settled at 
Washington, and became prominent in Masonry and 
Odd Fellowship, as well as in the political life of the 
citv. At the time of his sudden decease from heart 
trouble, March 5, 1892, he was a clerk in the United 
States Pension office, and one of the historians of the 
Ninth New Hampshire Regimental association, in 
which organization he had ever taken a deep interest, 
and whose members had held him in the highest regard 
ever since the day, on the westerly side of the Antietam, 
when he so gallantly discharged his duties as aide-de- 
camp amid a storm of Confederate shot and shell. 



JAMES H. MATTHEWS. 

James Henry Matthews, of Company I, was born at 
Swanzey, September 7, 1840, the son of John H. Mat- 
thews, a prominent farmer and brick-maker of that town. 
There the son grew up, and having received a common 
school education, engaged in lumbering until August 7, 
1862, when he enlisted at Keene. On the 15th of the 



714 NINTH NE W HA MPSHIKE. 

same month he was mustered in as a private of Com- 
pany I, Ninth New Hampshire vohinteers, and entered 
the war with that regiment, with which he remained 
most of the time during its term of service. May i, 
1865, he was appointed corporal. At Poplar Springs 
church, September 30, 1864, he was wounded in the 
head, and sent for a while to the Ninth Corps hospital, 
at City Point, Va. After the war nearly all his life was 
passed as a landlord of hotels in New Hampshire, Ver- 
mont, and Massachusetts. For his chosen life-work he 
was eminently fitted, being an unassuming, courteous 
man, of pleasing address and affable manners, who kept 
a quiet, orderly house, set a good table, and made his 
hostelry a pleasant abiding-place for travellers. He was 
a model landlord, and consequently was able to acquire 
a competency where others failed. 

His hotel life began at Marlow, and was continued at 
Hinsdale, at Brattleboro, Vt., and at Gardner and Mil- 
ford, Mass. At the last named place the Hotel Willan 
was built for him. He went there in 1887, and remained 
until his decease in 1895. 

On April 15, 1866, Comrade Matthews married Carrie 
L. Thomas, of Swanzey, who, with one son, Frank R. 
Matthews, of Bellows Falls, Vt., survives him. He was 
a member of Golden Rule lodge, F. and A. M., at 
Hinsdale, of Roman lodge, K. of P., and of Post 22, 
G. A. R., at Milford. 

Soon after Comrade Matthews's decease the tbllowing 
resolutions were adopted by the surviving comrades of 
Company I : 

Whereas, In the providence of (lod death has removed from our 
midst our well beloved comrade, J. H. Matthews, therefore be it 

Resolved, That, as we glance over the list of names on the records of 



BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 715 

our association, we find the ranks are fast being thinned. Soon we 
shall not be able to find even a few left that took part with us in the 
hardships of the camp and march, during the eventful period from 
1862 to 1865. 

Resolved, We will cherish his memory as one who loved his fellow- 
comrades and tried to assist the needy in times of distress and sorrow, 
always remembering "it is more blessed to give than to receive." 

Resolved, That our association contains but few members whose 
decease would cause a deeper sense of separation and loss than that of 
Comrade Matthews. He stood among us as one who was constant and 
unwavering in the service of his country. His character, marked in 
its traits, was seen and understood at first acquaintance, and time and 
intimacy simply strengthened the impression. He was frank, direct in 
speech, transparent in motive, consistent in action, in all to such a 
degree that his opinion and conduct could always be understood. He 
bestowed his friendship promptly and fully, and neither lapse of time 
nor absence would weaken it. His words were earnest, strong, and 
without disguise, but they were uttered in such kindness and sincerity 
of spirit that no offence or ill feeling could spring from them. 

Resolved, That the character of our comrade, as it revealed itself 
among us, maintained its consistency in his public and social relations. 
He was upright, persistent, and practical, in daily duty ; in public 
affairs and in citizenship, wherever he was trusted he was found faith- 
ful. His life has reached its end while he was still in the full enjoy- 
ment of the respect and confidence of the whole community, who knew 
him as an honest man. 

Resolved, That we tender to the bereaved widow and son our warm- 
est sympathies and deep-felt condolement in their aftiiction, and trust 
that they will receive from God our Heavenly Father that consolation 
and peace which he alone can give. 

Resolved, That these resolutions be spread upon the records of our 
association, and that a copy of the same be forwarded to the widow of 
our deceased comrade. 

" Life's labor done. 
Serenely to his final rest he passed, 
While the soft memories of his virtues yet linger. 
Like sunlight hues wlien that bright orb is set." 



7 1 6 NINTH NE W HAMPSHIRE. 

WILLIAM McGARRETT. 

Sergt. William McGarrett was a native of Belleville, 
N. J., but at the age of twenty-three was a resident of 
Manchester, from which place he enlisted as private in 
July, 1862. He was wounded at Fredericksburg, and 
given a commission as sergeant. After the Mississippi 
campaign he was detailed, with others, as head-quarters 
guard for the Second division, and went down into Ten- 
nessee. In foraging along the south side of the Holston 
river for supplies for the army, the guard met with many 
exciting adventures, being often fired upon and some- 
times wounded. He was at Lyon's Mills when Long- 
street attacked, at the Battle of Fort Saunders, and the 
siege of Knoxville. After the siege he was transferred 
to Company K of the Fifty-first Pennsylvania, and had 
several skirmishes with the enemy at Strawberry Plains. 
At the Battle of Poplar Springs Church, September 30, 
1864, Sergeant McGarrett was captured, and imprisoned 
at Salisbury. The graphic story of his prison life is 
given in Chapter XIX of this volume. His present 
home is at Cambridgeport, Mass. 



EDWIN R. MILLER. 

Edwin R. Miller was born at Bridgewater, Vt., Nov- 
ember 12, 1839. ^^^ father was Nathaniel Miller, Jr., 
a colonel of the Vermont militia, and his mother was 
Nancy Paul. Hs enlisted under E. T. Case at Newport, 
in August, 1862, and was appointed color corporal for 
Company K at the organization of the regiment in 
Concord. After the Battle of Antietam, Corporal Miller 
was detailed to carry the State colors. At the Battle of 
Fredericksburg Corporal Miller's flag was made the signal 



BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 717 

flag for the day by General Sumner. At night he 
brought both the State and National colors from the 
field, carried them into a brick slave-pen, and set them 
down in one corner. He had just bestowed himself on 
the floor, when a cannon ball struck the wall behind 
him, breaking out the side of the building and half bury- 
ing the corporal in the fallen debris. When he recov- 
ered consciousness and tried to extricate himself, he, in 
the darkness, fell through to the basement, where he was 
found later on by Lieutenant Brown of Company K, who 
sent two comrades to carry him to the brigade hospital. 
He was afterwards removed to Washington, where he 
remained in the hospital until the spring of 1863, when 
he was sent to Portsmouth Grove hospital in Rhode 
Island, and in June to the hospital at Bedlow's island, 
New York. July 2 he started to rejoin his regiment, 
which was then at Vicksburg, when he was again taken 
ill and was an inmate of the hospital until the latter part 
of September. From that time until his discharge, June 
10, 1865, he was at Madison, Ind., where he served in 
the hospital as ward-master. Sanitary and Christian 
commission agent, librarian, section-master, steward, and 
commissary clerk. On returning to New Hampshire, he 
married, August 10, Sarah J. Vose of Claremont. He 
carried on a farm at Newport until 1884, when he moved 
to Meriden, his present residence, where the comrades 
of the Ninth will always receive a hearty welcome. 



JOHN MOONEY. 

Lieut. John Mooney, of Company A, Ninth New 
Hampshire volunteers, was born in Holderness village 
(now Ashland), November 19, 1840. His real name 



7 1 8 NINTH NE W HA MPSHIRE. 

was Rufus M. Merrill. His father was John Mooney 
Merrill, also born in Holderness, and was in his time 
one ot' the most prominent business men in that town. 
His mother was the daughter of Deacon Moses Cheney, 
and a sister of Gov. P. C. Cheney. Young Merrill's 
father died in 1857, and a year or more later he went 
South, toThomasville, Ga., where he was emplo3^ed upon 
a railroad. There the Rebellion caught him. Not being 
able to get through the military lines, he was impressed 
into the Confederate army. His regiment was stationed 
for drill and guard duty at Fernandina, Fla. 

Late in the autumn of 1861 he, with a friend named 
John I. McCarthy, of Philadelphia, who had also been 
impressed, stole a boat and put to sea. They had but 
little food and only a small supply of fresh water, and 
with no compass were soon out of sight of land. They 
drifted they knew not where. Their provisions and 
water were soon gone. After drifting in this manner 
for several days, and when nearly dead from hunger 
and thirst, a vessel came in sight of them, which they 
signalled. This proved to be a United States gunboat, 
in command of Captain Goodon, afterwards Commodore 
Goodon. They were taken aboard, carried to Hilton 
Head, and turned over to Gen. O. W. Mitchell, who, 
after questioning them as to the Confederate armies in 
South Carolina and Georgia, sent them to New York, 
each going from there to his home. Merrill reached his 
home, in his Confederate suit, about December 20, 1861, 
in a feeble condition. 

The following summer, having partially regained his 
health, he enlisted in the Ninth New Hampshire under 
the name of John Mooney, was commissioned a lieu- 
tenant, and went to the front with his regiment. He 



BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 719 

served with his regiment faithfully (being closely 
engaged at the Battle of Antietam with a Georgia 
regiment), until in 1863, when stationed at Newport 
News, Va., his health again failing, he resigned and 
returned to New Hampshire. He afterwards was 
employed as a clerk in Willard's hotel, Washington, 
D. C, until the summer of 1866, when he completely 
broke down in health and went to the old home, where 
on December 23 of that year he died of consumption. 
The foundation of his disease was undoubtedly laid in 
the sufferings incident to his bold escape from the Con- 
federate service. 

Lieutenant Mooney was a true patriot, a genial com- 
panion, and had friends wherever he was known. A.t 
Willard's hotel he often met Commodore Goodon, who 
was his friend during his life. He was never married, 
and his remains lie in Green Grove cemetery, at Ash- 
land, beside those of his father and mother. 



GEORGE W. MORTON. 

"The little drummer of Company F" was the more 
familiar cognomen of George W. Morton during his 
term of service with the regiment. He was born in 
Gloucester, Mass., and was living in South Newmarket 
with his parents when the war broke out. Enthusiasm 
ran high in the village, until even mere boys began to 
feel that they, too, were needed for the defence of their 
country. It was not until the summer of 1862, however, 
that young Morton could gain his parents' consent to 
enlist. He was a little fellow, not quite five feet in 
height and tipping the scale at one hundred and one 
pounds. During the school vacation that year he was 



7 20 NINTH NE W HAMPSHIRE. 

working in a brass foundry, learning to make cores for 
castings. Having gained his father's consent, the next 
thing was to enlist, and one night after working hours 
were over he and an equally enthusiastic companion, 
George T. Armstrong, of Company D, walked to Exeter, 
a distance of five miles, where Captain Pillsbury had a 
recruiting office. Arriving late in the evening, they at 
once sought the captain ; but what was their dismay 
when, after a brief inspection, they were pronounced 
"too small." However, they were permitted to share 
the comforts of a bare floor with a company of recruits 
that night, and the next morning walked home. Cap- 
tain Pillsbury had spoken of a recruiting office which 
his brother, Lieutenant Pillsbury, was managing in 
Manchester, and the young enthusiasts resolved to make 
another try. They went to Manchester the following 
day, and Lieutenant Pillsbury stretched a point and 
enlisted them. About a week later the recruits were 
ordered to report at Manchester for duty, and Morton 
and Armstrong were turned over to Drum-Major Adams. 
Their first taste of military life was a march from Man- 
chester to Milford, where they remained some four weeks 
before being ordered to Concord. Armstrong was with 
the regiment during its entire term of service, and died 
in StrafTord, December 31, 1887. Morton was dis- 
charged for disability at Newport News, in February, 
1863, and is now living at Berlin, Wis. 



WILLIAM PITT MOSES. 

As the son of Theodore B. and Marv S. Moses, the 
subject of this sketch became an inhabitant of the good 
old town of Exeter on the 15th of December, 1826. 



BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 72 1 

Early in 1833 the family moved to Somersvvorth, where 
the father was in the employ of the Great Falls Manu- 
facturing company, as chief clerk and paymaster. 
Young Pitt (as he was more familiarly known among 
his comrades) attended the public schools at Somers- 
worth until he was fourteen, and then entered the 
counting-room under his father, there to fill, in the 
course of time, the respective positions of office boy, 
assistant clerk, and assistant paymaster, until the clos- 
ing of the mills in the fall of 1861. 

In May, 1862, he enlisted, and was assigned to the 
Ninth New Hampshire, then forming at Concord, being 
detailed as commissary of the camp. Qiiarter master 
Moses went to the front with the Ninth, remained with 
it during its entire term of service, with the exception of 
one furlough of ten days, and was mustered out with the 
regiment at Concord, June 10, 1865. During his term 
of service at the front, he was several times detailed as 
acting brigade and division quartermaster in the absence 
of the duly commissioned officers, in every capacity 
winning the high commendations of his superiors by 
the energy and efficiency with which he executed the 
duties pertaining to his department. In the famous 
march of the regiment across the Cumberland moun- 
tains, in March, 1864, Qj.iarter master Moses accom- 
plished what had been declared at head-quarters as an 
impossibility, — the safe transmission of his teams over 
the treacherous mountain roads of early spring. 

At the close of the war he returned to Somersworth, 
and was chief clerk and paymaster of the Great Falls 
Manufacturing company until March, 1877. For a 
year he served as special justice of the Somersworth 
police court, resigning in 1878. He was collector of 

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722 NINTH NE IV HAMPSHIRE. 

taxes for Somersworth in 1877 and 1878, and repre- 
sented the town in the state legislature for the same 
years. In 1878 he was one of the commissioners for 
Strafford county, but declined to make any effort look- 
ing to a renomination. At the annual town meetings 
he became a familiar figure, serving his fellow-towns- 
men as moderator fourteen times between 1858 and 1877. 
His name is recorded among the charter members of 
Littlefield post, No. 8, G. A. R., of Somersworth, and 
from 1868 to 1876 inclusive he served as its comman- 
der. 

In 1879 he received an appointment as deputy under 
Sheriff John Greenfield of Rochester, and was reap- 
pointed in 1881. He was also engaged in the fire insur- 
ance business, in connection wath Hon. William D. 
Knapp of Somersworth, during the years 1877 to 1882. 
In October, 1882, he was appointed captain of the watch 
at the Portsmouth navy yard, and served in that capac- 
ity two years, and two years as clerk in the comman- 
dant's office, when his resignation was asked for by Sec- 
retary of the Navy William C. Whitney. The resigna- 
tion was at once tendered and accepted, taking effect 
November i, 1886. 

From 1855, when he had married Miss Frances Ellen 
Blake of Somersworth, up to the time of his leaving the 
navy yard, Captain Moses had made his home in that 
town; but in December, 1886, he moved to Boston, 
Mass., and was employed as a clerk in the freight 
department of the western division of the Boston *& 
Maine railroad. In May, 1893, he retired from active 
business, but still serves his old comrades of the Ninth 
New Hampshire as secretary and treasurer of the Regi- 
mental association. 



BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 723 

JAMES NAGLE. 

Brig. Gen.JamesNagle was born in Reading, Pa., April 
5, 1822. Even when a youth his tastes were military. In 
1842 he organized, in Pottsville, Pa., where he resided, 
the Washington Artillery company. When war was 
declared against Mexico, he, among the first, tendered 
the services of his company. They were accepted. 
The company left Pottsville, December 5, 1846, for 
Pittsburgh, Pa., and was mustered into the United 
States service as Company B, First Pennsylvania regi- 
ment, or the second company for the Keystone state. 

The regiment was among the first troops to land at 
Vera Cruz. The company was one of the tour that 
first approached the city within a few hundred yards 
under cover of darkness, to clear away the chapparal 
and enable a naval battery to be planted. General 
Nagle was engaged during the entire siege and ren- 
dered efficient service. At the Battle of Cerro Gordo 
he acted as major of his regiment with distinguished 
ability, and received special mention from his superior 
officers. He advanced with the regiment to Perote 
Castle, where he was stationed with three other com- 
panies to preserve open communication between Vera 
Cruz and Pueblo, while the army under General Scott 
was advancing. June 20, 1847, he and his company 
were engaged at Lahoya in assisting General Cadwal- 
ader through the pass with re-enforcements and large 
army trains of stores and money. The pass was strongly 
fortified by guerrillas, but they were routed. 

October 9, 1847, he and his company were engaged 
at Huamantla ; on the 12th at Pueblo, and on the 19th 
at Atlixco. In each engagement the enemy was routed 



724 NINTH NE W HA MPSHIRE. 

with heavy loss. Subsequently he advanced with his 
regiment to the City of Mexico ; remained there several 
weeks, and was finally stationed at San Angel until the 
close of the war. The company was mustered out of 
the service at Philadelphia, July 27, 1848, and reached 
Pottsville on the 28th, where it experienced an enthusi- 
astic reception. 

Soon after his return Captain Nagle was presented 
with a most handsome sword by the citizens of Schuyl- 
kill county for his gallant services in Mexico. In the 
autumn of 1852 he was elected sheriff of Schuylkill 
county (the centre of the Molly Maguire organization), 
and subsequently to brigade inspector and colonel. He 
kept up the organization of the Washington Artillerists 
until the commencement of the Rebellion in 1861, when 
his company was one of the first five companies to reach 
Washington for its defence (April 18), which gained for 
itself the name of " The First Defenders." 

Captain Nagle was commissioned colonel of the Sixth 
Pennsylvania regiment by Governor Curtin, for three 
months. His regiment served in the brigade of Col. 
George H. Thomas, General Patterson's department. 
Colonel Nagle was engaged with his regiment in the 
skirmish at Falling Waters. He crossed the Potomac 
four times, and advanced beyond Martinsburg and 
Charlestown, Va. At the termination of his term of 
service he was highly complimented by General Patter- 
son, and received a complimentary order (No. 16) from 
his brigade commander, Colonel Thomas. 

In a fortnight after his return from the three months 
service, Colonel Nagle organized the Forty-eighth Penn- 
sylvania regiment for "three years or the war." He 
was commissioned colonel of it by Governor Curtin. 





Gen. James Nagle. 



BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 725 

He was ordered to Fortress Monroe, and shortly after 
his arrival there, was sent by General Wood to Hatteras 
island, after General Williams had been relieved. He 
was in command of the post lour months. While at 
Fortress Monroe the othcers and members of the late 
Sixth Pennsylvania regiment presented their old colonel 
with a very fine field-glass, appropriately inscribed. 
The following letter accompanied the glass : 

POTTSVILLE, Pa., Octobers, 1861. 
Colonel James Nagle: 

Dear Sir : A number of your friends, officers and privates of the 
late 6th Regt., P. V., commanded by you during the time it was in 
service, desire to present the accompanying field-glass for your 
acceptance, in token of our high personal esteem, and the exalted 
opinion we entertain of your military knowledge and capacity. 

Though your characteristic modesty may shrink from any public 
eulogy of your conduct and services, our gratitude and- admiration will 
not permit us to pass them by without this tribute of aiTection and 
respect. 

For many years past the military spirit and organizations of Schuyl- 
kill County have been chiefly sustained by your exertions. When the 
Nation's honor was to be maintained on the plains! of Mexico, you, 
with a well disciplined corps under your command, sprang to arms and 
hastened to the field of conflict ; in Cerro Gordo's terrific fight you 
stood calm and unmoved amid the leaden storm of death which fell on 
every side, and by your presence of mind and courage saved many 
gallant men from the fearful carnage. 

During the long season of peace which followed the closing of that 
war, in your own quiet and happy home you faithfully discharged the 
duties of a husband, father, and citizen, endearing yourself both to 
your family and the community in which you dwelt. 

But now the tocsin of war sounds through the land, and her valiant 
sons are called to defend her against foul rebellion's deadly blows. 
Speedily a regiment of your fellow-citizens take the field, and confer 
upon you the command. During the three months we served together, 
though inflexibly firm and persistently industrious in the performance 



726 NINTH NE W HAMPSHIRE. 

and requirements of every camp and field duty, yet such was the kind- 
ness of your demeanor, and your tender regard for the health, safety, 
and comfort of your men, that we regarded you rather as a friend and 
father, than as a mere military commander. 

And now that you have, at the head of a Schuylkill County Regi- 
ment (Pennsylvania 48th), again taken the field at your country's call, 
and may soon be in the thickest of the most eventful battle the world 
has ever witnessed, on the issue of which the destiny of human free- 
dom and progress is suspended, we present you with the accompany- 
ing glass, as well in token of our esteem and admiration, as that 
your eye, which never dimmed with fear as it gazed upon a foe, may 
more readily perceive his approach and prepare for victory. 

Praying that the God of Battles may preserve you in the midst of 
danger, and return you unharmed to your family and friends, when 
our glorious Union shall be firmly re-established, and covered with still 
more illustrious renown. 

We remain yours truly, 

Capt. C. Tower, 
Lt. Col. Jas. J. Seibert, 
Maj. John E. Wyxkoop, 
Capt. H. J. Hexdler, 
Lieut. Theo. Miller, 
Lieut. D. P. Brown, 
and many others. 

After the capture of Roanoke island, he, with a por- 
tion of his regiment, accompanied General Burnside's 
fleet, and was present at the capture of New Berne, 
N. C. Immediately afterwards he was assigned by 
Maj. Gen. Jesse L. Reno to the command of the First 
brigade, Second division. Ninth Army corps. The 
corps soon joined General Pope. General Nagle was 
engaged with his brigade in the Second Battle of Bull 
Run. In an assault upon the enemy, made in dense 
woods, when it was impossible to remain mounted he 
led his brigade on foot. His horse was captured after 
receiving eight wounds. At this battle General Nagle 



BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 727 

greatly distinguished himself by his acts of personal 
bravery. He was everywhere, cheering on his men, and 
barely escaped capture. He was ordered to halt by the 
rebels several times, pursued and fired at, but escaped. 

Soon after the battle General Reno recommended him 
to the president for promotion to brigadier-general. 
General Reno's letter was as follows : 

Head-Quarters qth Army Corps, 
Near Washington, Sept. 7, 1862. 
To His Excellency , the President of the United States : 

Sir : I have the honor to recommend Col. James Nagle, 48th Regt., 
Pa. Volt., for promotion as Brigadier-General. Col. Nagle has served 
with me with fidelity and ability, as commander of a Brigade, since the 
Battle of New Berne, and in the recent battles conducted himself with 
gallantry, and led his command with judgment and discretion. 
I have the honor to be, 

Very respectfully your obedient servant, 
J. L. Reno, 

jllaj. Genl. Commanding. 

The appointment was made. 

General Nagle was subsequently in the battles of 
Chantilly, South Mountain, and Antietam, where his 
brigade did good work. During the last named engage- 
ment General Nagle's brigade was the first to advance 
upon the enemy at the bridge over the Antietam, and 
when it had expended all its ammunition the Second 
brigade of the same division relieved it. Several more 
rounds were fired, when the enemy began to waver and 
the bridge was stormed and carried. The loss was 
heavy, but the gallant assault saved the day. At Amiss- 
ville, in a skirmish. General Nagle, with his brigade, 
drove the rebels finely. They were also engaged in the 
First Battle of Fredericksburg. The brigade fought 



728 NINTH NE IV HAMPSHIRE. 

bravely under its gallant commander, and sustained a 
heavy loss. 

Subsequently the Ninth corps was detached from the 
Army of the Potomac and sent to Newport News to 
recruit. They remained there for several weeks, and 
were then sent to Lexington, Ky., where General Nagle 
was in command of the post for a short time. He was 
then ordered to advance with his brigade to Winchester 
to watch the movements of the enemy. From there he 
went to Richmond, Ky., Paint Lick, and Lancaster. 
In May, 1863, General Nagle resigned on account 
of severe sufferings from angina pectoris. Upon ten- 
dering his resignation, it was received by Gen. S. D. 
Sturgis, then commanding the division, with regret, but 
was finally approved and accepted. 

General Nagle issued a farewell address to his troops, 
and amid their regrets and with their earnest wishes for 
the speedy recover}^ of his health, returned to Pennsyl- 
vania. After having been at home about a month, rest 
and absence from the excitement and exposure of the 
field had a beneficial effect. His health became better, 
and when General Lee commenced his invasion of Penn- 
sylvania in June, 1863, General Nagle organized the 
Thirty-ninth regiment, Pennsylvania volunteers, for the 
emergency, and was commissioned colonel by Governor 
Curtin. He was mustered into the service on July 4, 
1863, and proceeded to the front at once. On his arrival 
there General Couch immediately assigned him to the 
command of a brigade composed of six regiments and 
one battery, numbering some 4,800 men. He was 
mustered out of the service August 2, 1863. 

When, in 1864, a call was made for the hundred days 
service, General Nagle, with characteristic promptness 



BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 729 

and energy, organized the One Hundred Ninety-fourth 
Pennsylvania regiment, of which he was commissioned 
colonel by Governor Curtin, July 21, 1864. He was 
ordered to Baltimore. On his arrival General Wallace 
directed him to report to General Lockwood, commander 
of the Third separate brigade, who assigned General 
Nagle to the command of all the troops at Mankin's 
-Woods — about 8,000 men. He guarded some of the 
approaches to the city until the expiration of his term of 
service, when he was reHeved and returned with his 
regiment to Harrisburg, and was mustered out Novem- 
ber 5, 1864. 

He died at Pottsville, Pa., August 22, 1866, forty- 
four years of age — a comparatively young man. Gen- 
eral Nao-le's services in the Rebellion will ever be 
remembered with gratitude, not only by the people of 
Schuylkill county, but by the state and nation at large, 
who owe the preservation of their liberties to the self- 
sacrificing devotion of men like him. 



ENOCH C. PAIGE. 

Born in Antrim, and always a resident of that flourish- 
ing town, Enoch C. Paige was mustered into Company 
G, August 14, 1862, and was discharged, on account 
of disability, at Camp Dennison, O., December, 1863. 
When he was sent to the hospital, expecting to die, he 
had been for some time acting as mounted orderly at the 
head-quarters of the First brigade. Second division. Ninth 
army corps. After leaving the service, Comrade Paige 
recovered his health, and became a manufacturer of rock- 
ing and swing cradles at Antrim. 



7 30 NINTH NE W HAMPSHIRE. 

MINOT R. PHILLIPS. 

In Company I there was a private, Minot R. Phillips, 
who was one of live brothers who saw service in the 
Civil War, — two, Minot and Joseph, on the Union side; 
two, Rufus and Simeon, in the Confederate ranks ; and 
one, Judson, as a " home guard" in Missouri. The last 
had not enlisted in either army. The two who went into 
the Confederate service were in Missouri regiments, and 
so was Joseph, though his was for the Union. These 
brothers were all born in Cheshire county, where they 
are still well remembered. Rufus is the only one now 
living. Minot R. was born in Roxbury, mustered in 
August 15, 1862, and died at Aquia Creek, Va., January 
30, 1863. 



LEONARD H. PILLSBURY. 

Although in 1855, in the early settlement of Kansas, 
Leonard H. Pillsbury had carried one of " Beecher's " 
rifles, fifty of which were donated by that eminent divine 
for the purpose of making Kansas a free state, 3'^et he 
was more than anything else " a peace man." Nothing 
but just such vital matters of principle as were in ques- 
tion in both the settlement of Kansas and in the struggle 
for the preservation of the Union and the abolition of 
slavery, could by any possibility have caused him to 
exchange the garb of a student for the uniform of a sol- 
dier. Indeed his experience in Kansas and on the fron- 
tier had caused the postponement of his efforts to obtain 
an academic education to a later period, so that the 
breaking out of the war found him earnestly struggling 
with the problems of Euclid and the roots of Greek verbs 
at Phillips Exeter academy. 




•^ «Si, 



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Charles Bohonnan, of the Band. 



Com. Sergt. Howard M. Hanson. 





Q. M. Sergt. Charles P. Hill. 



Capt. Leonard H. Pillseury, Co. A. 



BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 73 1 

In May, 1862, young Pillsbury responded to President 
Lincoln's call "for three hundred thousand" by enlist- 
ing as a private and taking leave of the venerable Dr. 
Soule, who for fifty years had directed the great educa- 
tional institution at Exeter. But he did not go unac- 
companied, for from the 160 students pursuing the 
curriculum there, eight or ten soon joined their school- 
mate in the camp of volunteers at Concord. The Ninth 
regiment filled up very slowly, and it was not till August 
that the entire regiment was mustered into the service 
of the United States. It was during this interval that 
Governor Berry, probably by the advice of Adjutant- 
General Colby, issued a captain's commission to L. H. 
Pillsbury. It was the first issued to any line officer of 
the regiment, and he was placed in command of Com- 
pany A. One of the Exeter students who accom- 
panied him, L. H. Caldwell, became first sergeant, 
and Charles J. Simonds, now a physician in Chicago, 
second sergeant. 

There is something anomalous about the personnel of 
the Union army. The talismanic words of its great 
chief, when he became president, " Let us have peace," 
mark a new era in the history of warfare. Captain 
Pillsbury was " a peace man" before he was a soldier,, 
and any one can well understand that he is no less so 
now that the real character of war and its baneful influ- 
ence on thousands of thoughtless minds is more perfectly 
known. Indeed, for twenty-five years he has been one 
of the vice-presidents of the American Peace society, 
and was for some time one of its western secretaries. 
His first remembered lyceum debate was on the ques- 
tion of the rightfulness of war, and he took the negative. 
When teaching a district school in the vicinity of the 



732 NINTH NE W HA MPS HIRE. 

academy at New London, he received an invitation, or 
challenge, to a debate before the students and faculty 
of that institution and the public, on the resolution 
"That all military establishments ought to be abol- 
ished." He took the affirmative, and J. Q;. A. Brackett, 
since and for two terms the honored governor of the 
commonwealth of Massachusetts, had the negative. 
The affirmative was easily maintained at that time. 



H. BAXTER OUIMBY. 

Moses A. Quimby, a native and life-long resident of 
Lisbon, was the father of ten children, of whom the 
captain of Company B of the Ninth was one. Horace 
Baxter Quimby was born June 17, 1840, and enlisted 
at Lisbon, August 11, 1862. He was mustered in as 
first sergeant of Company H, on the following Novem- 
ber was appointed second lieutenant of Company E, and 
received the first lieutenancy of Company B, January i, 
1864. At Poplar Springs Church he was made a pris- 
oner and sent to Libby prison, but escaped after a four 
months incarceration. May i, 1865, he was appointed 
captain, and was mustered out June 10, 1865. Except 
during his imprisonment by the Confederates, Comrade 
Quimby was absent from his regiment but once during 
its term of service, and at that time was on duty, for he 
went North to obtain recruits. 

After the volunteer infantry had disbanded. Captain 
Quimbv received an appointment as second lieutenant 
in the regular army ; in 1867 was promoted to first lieu- 
tenant, and served as quartermaster of the Twenty-fifth 
and Thirty-ninth infantry from February i, 1868, to 
September i, 1877. On the last day of December, 1880, 




Capt. H. Baxter Quimby, Co. B. 



BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 733 

a captain's commission rewarded his faithful service, 
and he was selected for duty on the frontier as quarter- 
master of transportation for the Indian campaigns. Cap- 
tain QLiimby was an energetic, capable, and kind officer, 
devoted to the service, and possessed the confidence of 
his superiors to an unusual degree. He died suddenly 
at Fort Snelling, Minn., February 9, 1883, after serving 
his country continuously for twenty-one years. His 
widow now resides at Niles, Mich. 



OSCAR D. ROBINSON. 

Among the distinguished educators of the United 
States none is more wide-awake, industrious, and pro- 
gressive than Oscar D. Robinson, Ph. D., principal of 
the Albany (N. Y.) high school. Comrade Robinson 
was born August 19, 1838, at Cornish. His father, 
William S. D. Robinson, and his grandfather, Everett 
Robinson, were natives of the same town. His great- 
grandfather, David Robinson, served in the Revolution- 
ary War, and after living to a great age was laid to rest, 
about the year 1852, by his fellow-citizens of Cornish. 

W. S. D. Robinson married Zelpha Clement, of the 
well known Clement familv which held a reunion in 
Boston, Mass., some few years ago. Oscar D. Robin- 
son's earliest years were passed on the homestead farm 
and in the district school. In 1859 ^^ became a student 
of Kimball Union academy at Meriden, from which 
institution he was graduated in July, 1862, the valedic- 
torian of his class. It had been his intention to continue 
his studies at college, but the urgent need of the Union 
for more troops at the front appealed to his patriotic 
impulses, and he was mustered into Company E as ser- 



734 NINTH NE W HA MPS HI RE. 

geant, August 6, 1862. By his own meritorious quali- 
ties as a true soldier Comrade Robinson rose by succes- 
sive grades to the rank of captain, and was engaged 
with the regiment in all its battles, except one, down to 
the close of the war, but came out without receiving a 
wound. 

The Rebellion finished, Captain Robinson returned to 
the prosecution of his literary course, which had been 
interrupted so suddenly, and in the autumn of 1865 
entered Dartmouth college, from which he was grad- 
uated with honor four years later. That same year, 
1869, he went to Albany, where for more than a quarter 
of a century he has lived, a useful citizen and an orna- 
ment to the cause of higher education. At first he was 
the professor of English literature and mathematics in 
the Albany academy, but the professorship of the nat- 
ural sciences in the Free academy, now the high school, 
was offered to him less than a year later, which offer 
was accepted. This professorship was subsequently 
exchanged for that of Latin and Greek in the same 
institution. His excellent classical scholarship, and his 
rare faculty for imparting its rich lore to the minds of 
his pupils, made him very popular in the work of his 
chosen field, and there he continued to labor until 1886, 
when he was elected principal, a position which he fills 
with great acceptance and ability ; and that, too, in a 
school with a faculty of thirty members, and standing 
in the very foremost rank of the high schools of the 
Empire state. 

Oscar D. Robinson is a member of the Grand Arm}^ 
of the Republic and of the Masonic I'raternity. He is 
associated with the Congregational church. In 1887 
he received the degree of Ph. D. from Dartmouth col- 



BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 735 

lege. In 1892 he was appointed by the National Edu- 
cational association on the " Committee of Ten," of 
which the president of Harvard university was chair- 
man. The report of this committee, which has been 
printed and distributed by the United States govern- 
ment, attracted wide notice in this country and in 
Europe. In 1870, Comrade Robinson married Miss 
Jennie M. Rawel, of Madison, Wis. They have one 
child, Mary, a graduate of the Albany high school. 



HENRY O. SARGENT. 

Henry O. Sargent, late lieutenant of Company E, was 
a native of Concord, where he was born in 1837. He 
learned his trade as a machinist in Manchester, and 
soon after his marriage to Miss Sophia T. Heath, 
which occurred early in i860, he settled in Wilton. He 
answered the war call early, being among the first to 
enlist for three months. Later, when the Ninth was 
organized, he was commissioned second lieutenant of 
Company E, and served with his regiment in its terrible 
baptism of fire, at Antietam, Fredericksburg, in the 
Mississippi campaign, and at Knoxville ; until Decem- 
ber, 1863, when he resigned, having been obliged to 
succumb to the effects of the hardships and privations 
of the campaign. Returning to Wilton, and having 
partially recovered his health (he never did wholly), 
in 1866 he purchased a mill, and for years furnished 
turned wood supplies for the Briggs Piano Stool com- 
pany of Peterborough. December 10, 1877, he was 
appointed postmaster, and filled the position to the entire 
satisfaction of the patrons of the office until his death, 



736 NINTH NE W HAMPSHIRE. 

April 24, 1893. He was a thorough student, and 
enjoyed keeping abreast with the progress of modern 
thought. A charter member of Post Abiel A. Liver- 
more, he also served as its first adjutant. As a citizen 
he was faithful to what he believed his duty, constant to 
his home and friends, and truly loyal to the principles 
of the order in which he was proud to be numbered. 



AARON W. SHEPARD. 

A young man of twenty-one, with the above name, 
born at Biddeford, Me., though a resident of Nashua, 
went into the service with the Ninth as its hospital stew- 
ard, but was discharged December 14, 1864, to accept 
promotion as assistant surgeon of the Eighteenth regi- 
ment. New Hampshire volunteers. His muster-in to 
the new position was opposed by some of the powers 
that were, on the ground that he was not a graduate in 
medicine, but the friends of Surgeon Shepard insisted 
so strongly upon his receiving what his ability and 
merit demanded, that the muster-in was finally per- 
mitted. This has been said to be the first instance of 
a non-graduate being mustered into the Army of the 
Potomac as surgeon or assistant surgeon. 

Comrade Shepard was subsequently detached from the 
Eighteenth, and assigned to the sole medical charge 
of General Robertson's Flying Artillery brigade, where 
he was the only volunteer officer on the staff, all the 
others being regulars. At the close of the war he 
continued his studies, was graduated in 1866, and 
has been in active practice in Brooklyn, N. Y., ever 
since. 




A. Warner Shepard, M. D., Hospital Steward. 



BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 737 



LEWIS SIMONDS. 



This member of the regimental and brigade band was 
born in Antrim. In 1862 he was residing in Nashua, 
where he enhsted as private, but was detailed as a 
musician, and served with great fidelity throughout 
the war. Returning to Antrim he lived there quietly, 
gaining the love and respect of all who knew him, but 
died suddenly, October 29, 1893, from paralysis, com- 
plicated by heart trouble and the malaria contracted 
during his army life. He left a widow, one son, and 
two daughters. 



BAXTER p. SMITH. 

Baxter Perry Smith, son of Moses and Mehitable 
(Ward) Smith, was born in Lyme, August 29, 1829. 
He fitted for college at the Thetford (Vt.) academy, and 
was graduated from Dartmouth college in 1854. From 
1854 to 1861 he was a colporteur of the American Tract 
society. In 1861 and the early months of 1862 he 
assisted Rev. Dr. G. T. Chapman in the preparation of 
the latter's "Sketches of the Alumni" of Dartmouth, 
but left that work August 15, 1862, to be mustered in 
as a private of Company F. He remained with the 
regiment until February 6, 1863, when he was dis- 
charged at Falmouth on account of disability. From 
1863 to 1867 he again assisted Dr. Chapman as much 
as his health permitted, and was afterwards in business 
at New York city as a collector and real estate agent. 
While at the metropolis he published a work of his own 
entitled "The Credit Guide." From 1875 ^''^ resided at 

XL VII 



738 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. 

Brookline, Mass., engaged in varied literary work. 
In 1878 he brought out a " History of Dartmouth Col- 
lege." Comrade Smith died of pulmonary disease, 
February 6, 1884, at Washington, D. C. He was 
unmarried. 



ORVILLE SMITH. 

In the beautiful National cemetery at Marye's heights 
reposes everything material that remains of Captain 
Orville Smith and some of the brave men who followed 
him at Spottsylvania Court-house, May 12, 1864. But 
the deeds and sterling character of this courageous 
officer live in the memory of each one who knew him. 
Orville Smith was born in Lempster, March 11, 1832, 
the fifth son of Hon. Alvah Smith. Thirty years later 
he left a lucrative and congenial position as principal of 
Hopkinton academy to be mustered in August 18, 1862, 
as first lieutenant of Company G. November i, 1863, 
he was appointed captain of Company B. It was he who 
was detailed to take the body of Major Everett from 
Cincinnati to New London, which task was performed 
in fifty hours. During his stay in Kentucky Captain 
Smith was often detailed on courts-martial, frequently as 
president. 



ALBERT H. TAFT. 

At the time of President Lincoln's first call for volun- 
teers Albert H. Taft was a student at Kimball Union 
academy. His elder brother, Edward N. Taft, was then 
living in Keene, and feeling sure that he would be 
among the first to enlist, young Taft determined to keep 




Corp. Albert H. Taft, Co. E. 



BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 739 

him company. Arriving at Keene, he found Capt. T. A. 
Barker of Westmoreland had enlisted and was drilling a 
company then known as the Cheshire Light guards, 
which was subsequently mustered into the service as 
Company A of the Second regiment. In this the elder 
brother had enlisted, but he strongly opposed Albert's 
going as a soldier, saying that one was enough to take 
from a family, and advised him to return to his studies. 
This he finally consented to do, but with his mind fully 
made up that if his brother's place ever became vacant 
he would go in his stead. He had only a year to wait, 
for at the Battle of Williamsburg, May 5, 1862, Edward N. 
Taft laid down his life on the battle-field, cut in two by 
a cannon shot. Writing to his father, Captain Barker 
said of him, — " He was a noble man, a good soldier, and 
fought bravely to the last." 

July 29, 1862, Albert announced to his father his deter- 
mination to enlist in the Ninth regiment. Believing him 
to be physically unable to endure the hardships of a 
soldier's life, the father at first withheld his consent, but 
finally said, — " If you go I shall expect you to do your 
duty. I would rather know you had gone with your 
brother than that you should come back without an hon- 
orable record." The young volunteer at once set out for 
Lebanon, where he promptly enrolled himself, and was 
greatly pleased to find that several of his schoolfellows 
from Meriden had enlisted in the same regiment. A few 
last days at home, and then the fortunes of the camp and 
field. As corporal of Company E, Comrade Taft ren- 
dered efficient service in the battles of South Mountain, 
Antietam, and Fredericksburg, but during the winter at 
Falmouth, when the measles made such havoc in the 
regiment, he was one of the first victims. He was ill for 



7 40 NINTH NE W HA MPS HI RE. 

months, and was finally discharged, November 13, 
1863, broken down in health and suflfering from a bad 
cough, but after a period of rest at home had recovered 
sufficiently so that he felt he might return and at least be 
able to do hospital work. He carried out his plan, and 
was engaged in this service until the close of the war. 

In August, 1865, he entered the medical department 
of Dartmouth college. The two following years he 
attended lectures at Bowdoin college, graduating from 
that institution in 1867. For nearly thirty years he has 
followed his chosen profession, and the historian of 
Hancock, where he was located until 1872, speaks of 
him as " very successful." For the last twenty-three 
years he has been an honored resident of Winchester. 
He is a member of the state and local medical societies, 
has served on the board of education, both in Hancock 
and Winchester, and has been a member of the Masonic 
fraternity for some thirty years. He is also a comrade 
of Edward N. Taft post. No. 19, G. A. R., it having 
been so named in honor of his brother. In 1866 Com- 
rade Taft married M. Lovett Atherton, of Winchester, 
and has had four sons born to him. The oldest, Albert 
A., followed in his father's footsteps, and is now house 
officer at St. Elizabeth's hospital, Boston, Mass. Two 
died in early childhood, and the youngest, DeForest R., 
is a student at the New Hampshire College of Agricul- 
ture and the Mechanic Arts. 



HERBERT B. TITUS. 



Colonel and Brevet Brigradier-General Herbert B. 
Titus was residing in Chesterfield, his native town, at 



BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 74 1 

the commencement of the war. He was the youngest 
son of Col. E^ra Titus, a farmer who got his title as 
colonel of a militia regiment, and as "once a colonel 
always a colonel," the son came to be familiarly known 
among his townsmen as "the young ' colonel." The 
father, though mainly self-taught, had been in his local- 
ity and his sphere the famous school-teacher of his time, 
both as a disciplinarian and instructor, and it is but just 
to say that to no teacher does the son acknowledge him- 
self more indebted than to that father, who thoroughly 
grounded him, when twelve years old, in the principles 
of grammar and arithmetic, the instruction being given 
mainly when husking together in the barn, by the dim 
light of an old-time tin lantern. 

Ezra Titus was the youngest often children of Deacon 
Joseph Titus, who came to Chesterfield from Douglas, 
Mass., in 1777, soon after his marriage there to Mary 
Bigelow, who was of the family of that name that has 
produced some eminent men in that state, including a 
chief-justice of her supreme court. Ezra was fourth in 
descent from Robert Titus, who came from Hertfordshire, 
Eng., in 1635, ^^^ from whom, so far as known, all of 
the name in this country are descended, except those 
from a Dutch ancestor of New Utrecht, L. I., who 
Anglicized his name from Tityus. The immigrant was a 
younger brother of the Colonel Titus of Cromwell's 
army, mentioned by Hume and Macaulay as prominent 
in the politics of those troublous times. This original 
Colonel Titus afterwards espoused the cause of King 
Charles II, and on the occasion of an attempt on the life 
of the Lord Protector wrote anonymously the famous 
tract entitled "Killing no Murder," which created such 
a sensation at the time, and is characterized in Howell's 



742 NINTH NE W HA MPS HIRE. 

"State Trials " as *'that most able, logical, artificially 
constructed, and occasionally eloquent, treatise." Col. 
Ezra Titus married Electa Kneeland, daughter of John 
Kneeland, Esq., also an early settler in Chesterfield. 
He came from Gardner, Mass., and was a brother of 
Abner Kneeland, the famous self-taught preacher, edi- 
tor, and Bible translator. 

At the age of fourteen Herbert B., who would then 
readily have passed for eighteen or more, taught his first 
school of forty scholars, sixteen of whom were older 
than himself, and with such success that his services 
were again sought for the same school. At sixteen he 
expressed a wish to go to Norwich university, the then 
well known military school at Norwdch, Vt., to which 
his father's reply was, " I've been through with a mili- 
tary experience. It takes time and money, and amounts 
to nothing in these times. We are never going to have 
any war," — a refusal that both had occasion to remem- 
ber and regret. Teaching and work upon the farm 
alternated w^ith study at the academy at West Brattle- 
boro, Vt., Chesterfield, and Meriden, where he gradu- 
ated in 1854. ^^ then entered Yale college, but again 
taught, after the close of the first term, in Palmyra, 
N. Y., where he remained until the fall of 1856, when 
he resigned his position to re-enter college, which he 
was prevented from doing b}' a severe attack of t^^phoid 
fever. He resumed teaching and farming, and, in 1859, 
was appointed county commissioner of common schools. 

In this position he was holding a teachers' institute 
in Keene, in April, 1861, when at a county mass meet- 
ing in the public square, called on receipt of the news of 
the firing on Sumter and the call for troops, in a brief 
address of impassioned eloquence he announced that in 



BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 743 

response to the president's call he was going. He had 
already headed the list for a volunteer company, which 
became Company A, of the Second regiment, and of 
which he was chosen second lieutenant, the captain and 
the first lieutenant having had military experience. 
Lieutenant Titus's connection with the Second ended July 
I, 1862, when he was discharged that he might accept 
the position of major in the Ninth, to which he had been 
appointed June 14, 1862. He was mustered in as major 
August 7, 1862, and appointed lieutenant-colonel on the 
20th of the same month, and on the resignation of Col. 
E. Q^ Fellows the following November, received the 
colonelcy, which place he held at the muster-out.. 
March 13, 1865, Colonel Titus was brevetted a brigadier- 
general of United States volunteers for gallant and meri- 
torious services during the war. He is now practising 
law in New York city. 



GEORGE B. TRACY. 

When, on Monday, June 6, 1864, George Boardman 
Tracy died, at Washington, D. C, from the effect of 
wounds received on the fatal 12th of May, at Spottsyl- 
vania, every officer and private of the Ninth New Hamp- 
shire sustained a personal loss. The silent inffuence of 
a quiet, courageous, loving man's presence among his 
fellows who happen to be deprived temporarily of the 
restraining forces of home life, or who are subjected to 
the demoralizing tendencies of battle and bloodshed, is 
more potent for right living and honorable conduct than 
volumes of general orders or pronunciamentos. 

Comrade Tracy was a native of Cornish, but the years 



744 NINTH NE W HAMPSHIRE. 

of his manhood were passed mostly in Lebanon, where 
he enlisted when thirty-six years old. He was mustered 
in as a corporal of Company E, much against the wishes 
of his friends, who desired him to accept a commission, 
but their alluring proposals were rejected, because he 
believed that his inexperience in military affairs inca- 
pacitated him for commissioned office. As corporal and 
sergeant he went with his comrades into the thick of the 
fight at South Mountain and Antietam, and through the 
horrors of Fredericksburg and the doleful winter in 
Virginia. He was with them in the joys of Kentucky 
and the sorrows of the Mississippi campaign. With 
them he marched over the mountains to Knoxville, and 
in their ranks entered Virginia once more, to be num- 
bered among the severely wounded at Spottsylvania. 
Left on the field when the regiment fell back, he was 
missed as soon as the confusion of battle was over, and 
four or five of his comrades, at the risk of their lives, 
sought him out among the dead and wounded, and 
carried him within the Union lines, where, supported by 
Charles O. Hurlbutt, of his company, he made this entry 
in his diary : 

May 12, 1864. Rainy. Hardest day of the battle as yet. Went 
into battle early; was wounded at 6: 15 a. m. A Mini6 ball passed 
through the middle of the bone just above my ankle, which shattered 
the bone. Our regiment fell back, and so ran over me first, and then 
the "rebs." Near where I fell were two or three knapsacks, which I 
used as breastworks to keep off the bullets flying thick and fast. The 
" rebs" gave me a couple more when they came after my ammunition, 
of which they seemed to be short, so that I had quite a little fort. It 
was not an agreeable position ; but God mercifully preserved me. 
After lying forty hours on the same spot, I was hastily taken off on a 
blanket after dark. 



BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 745 

It was characteristic of the man to say nothing of his 
sufferings. Even when in his diary he wrote of himself 
" sick," or " feeling very miserable," there was no 
thought of faltering. No complaining came from his 
lips. He always kept a cheerful spirit, and was ready 
to assist and cheer up the sick, the weary, and the down- 
hearted. He was "the father of the younger soldiers, 
and the faithful friend of all he could benefit." He was 
modest, too. Though among the bravest of the brave, 
this is the way he wrote of his first experience in battle : 
" I stood fire better than I expected." 

From Spottsylvania he was moved to Fredericksburg, 
on the Tuesday after his foot had been amputated Satur- 
day night, and from there to the hospital at Washington, 
whence he passed' calmly, hopefully, peacefully, to the 
life beyond. 

CHARLES W. UNDERHILL. 

Charles W. Underbill, of Hopkinton, N. H., died of 
apoplexy, very suddenly, Friday, May 26, 1882, aged 
sixty-eight years, nine months, and seven days. 

He was born at Chester, the son of Moses and Rachel 
(Lufkin) Underbill, and was one of a large family of 
children. When a young lad he went to East Concord, 
where he made his home with his sister, Mrs. Betsey 
(Underbill) Parker. He learned the trade of harness- 
maker and carriage trimmer with John Emerson of Con- 
cord. He worked at his trade with the late Timothy 
Chandler, of Hopkinton, but had been in business in 
Woonsocket, R. I., and Millville, Mass., for several 
years, when he removed to Concord, March 20, 1858. 
In 1862, though even then forty-nine years of age, he 



746 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. 

demonstrated his patriotism by enlisting in Company F 
of the Ninth regiment, served through the war, and was 
honorably discharged June 3, 1865. He was severely 
wounded in his right arm at the Mine. 

After leaving the service he removed his family to 
Hopkinton village, having purchased the farm formerly 
owned by Isaac H. Cliandler. There he lived amid the 
pleasantest surroundings, his declining years being fre- 
quently cheered by the presence of his children and 
grandchildren. 

Comrade Underbill's wife was Susan Eastman Kim- 
ball, of Fryeburg, Me. They had six children : Charles 
F., George F., Susan Maria, William P., a prosperous 
druggist of Concord, Ellen F., and Thomas B. 



GEORGE L. WAKEFIELD. 

George L. Wakefield, mustered out as sergeant of 
Company G, has a war record simultaneous with that of 
the regiment. Born in Plymouth, Vt., he enlisted at 
Claremont, July 26, 1862, at the age of fifteen, and as a 
private carried gun and knapsack with his company 
every day and in every engagement up to October i, 
1864, when he was wounded in the elbow at the Battle of 
Poplar Springs Church, and was ordered to the hospital. 
He returned to his company March 19, 1865, with which 
he did duty till June 10, 1865, having been appointed 
sergeant on May i of that year. During the war, 
young Wakefield had read medicine with Dr. A. J. 
Moulton, a private of Company G, and in 1866 went to 
Wisconsin to continue his studies with Dr. T. M. Simes 
of Durand. In 1870 he was graduated from the Hahne- 
mann Medical college of Chicago, and pursued his 



BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 747 

vocation in the West until 1888, when he returned to 
New Hampshire. He is now practising his profession at 
Manchester. As a soldier, George L. Wakefield was 
commended for his poise in emergencies, his bravery in 
action, and his rigid adherence to every demand of duty. 
He was often called to positions of trust by his superiors at 
critical times ; he never complained, and though wounded 
several times, never missed a march or fight in which 
the Ninth took part. The same qualities of heart and 
mind which characterized him in the days of '61 to '65 
have been shown prominently in his after life, and have 
made him unusually successful in his medical and surgi- 
cal practice. To Dr. Wakefield the Regimental associa- 
tion owes the compilation of its very complete necrology, 
and his daughter, Miss Electa Wakefield, has been made 
a daughter of the association, for assistance rendered her 
father in performing his duties as necrologist and in pre- 
senting to the association a beautifully inscribed necro- 
logical volume. 



GEORGE T. WARD. 

George T. Ward, of Company G, was born in Wash- 
ington, though credited to Charlestown. He enlisted 
August 8, 1862, as private, was mustered out June 10, 
1865, and passed to the land beyond January 14, 1867, 
when only twenty-three years of age. He was the son 
of Joel and Mary J. Ward, who live in North Charles- 
town, where Comrade Ward died. His mother writes, — 
"George was a faithful soldier. He never left the regi- 
ment after he enlisted until he was mustered out ; never 
tried to dodge a battle. He began to fail soon after he 
came home." 



748 NINTH NE W HAMPSHIRE. 

OSMON B. WARREN. 

Comrade Warren was born September 15, 1845, at 
Rochester. He enlisted August i, 1862, in Company H, 
was appointed corporal January 24, 1864, first sergeant 
March 19, 1864. He engaged in the battles of South 
Mountain, Antietam, and Fredericksburg, was with the 
regiment in the Mississippi campaign, and was in all its 
engagements up to and including the Battle of Spottsyl- 
vania Court-house, when he was captured and taken to 
Andersonville, arriving there May 29. In the latter 
part of the following October he was taken to Charles- 
ton, S. C, and after that to Florence, S. C, remaining 
there until he was paroled, February 29, 1865. After 
the Battle of Spottsylvania he was reported killed, and 
the following notice appeared in the Rochester Courier 
May 20, 1864 : 

"Among the losses in the Ninth New Hampshire 
volunteers we notice the name of First Sergeant 
Osmon B. Warren as killed. The news of young War- 
ren's death will carry sadness to many hearts. He was 
a young man of worthy attainments, the son of Rev. 
James Warren, of this place, where his untimely loss 
will be regretted by a wide circle of relatives and friends. 
He was known and beloved as a brave and resolute sol- 
dier by all his comrades, and will be sadly missed by 
them. His death is a severe stroke to his parents, who 
have sent three sons into the army, and whose hearts are 
made heavy by this affliction." A poem was also written 
on his death by Capt. C. W. Edgerly of his company. 

After his return from the war, in March, 1865, Com- 
rade Warren's health was so broken that he was unable 
to engage in any business for a long time. He was 



BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 749 

twice honored (sessions of 1875 and 1876) with a seat 
in the legislature, serving each year on the committee 
on military affairs. He has been commander of Samp- 
son post, No. 22, G. A. R., of Rochester, for two years, 
and was appointed postmaster of Rochester in April, 
1878, by President Hayes, and reappointed by Presi- 
dent Arthur. He was made a revenue storekeeper at 
Portsmouth, in January, 1891. 



WILLIAM A. WEBSTER. 

William Ambrose Webster was the son of William G. 
and Susan F. Webster, born in Rochester, June 13, 1830. 
Soon after his birth his parents removed to Concord, 
where his childhood was passed. His father died when 
he was nine years old, and he was early dependent upon 
his own resources. He attended the public schools in 
New Hampshire, and subsequently fitted himself for 
teaching at the State Normal school at Bridgewater, 
Mass., where he was graduated with honor in 1850. 
In 1853 he was appointed principal of a grammar school 
in Manchester, and held such a position until 1861. In 
the mean time he had been engaged, during such time 
as was not occupied with his duties as a teacher, in 
reading medicine with Dr. William Buck, which he 
supplemented by a course in Long Island College hos- 
pital, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Going back to Manchester in the summer of 1862, 
before engaging in practice, he was appointed, July i, 
1862, surgeon of the Ninth regiment. New Hampshire 
volunteers. Dr. Webster remained with the Ninth 
regiment until the spring of 1864, w^hen he was 



7 5 O NINTH NE W HA MPS HIRE. 

appointed chief surgeon of the Second division of the 
Ninth Army corps. He held this office for something 
liice a year, when he was compelled by ill health to 
resign and return North. He received his discharge 
January 5, 1865. On his return to Manchester he was 
appointed surgeon in the military hospital there, where 
he remained until it was discontinued. He then located 
in Groton, Mass., where he practised for three years. 
From Groton he went to Westford, Mass., where he 
was for ten years. He returned to Manchester in 1878. 
The remainder of his life was spent in Manchester, in as 
active practice as his health would permit. 

He was for several years a member of the board of 
United States pension examiners. He was a member 
of the school board in 1879, '80, '81, '82, '83, and upon 
the reorganization of the local board of health in 1885, 
he was appointed a member. At the time of his death 
he was connected with Lafayette lodge, F. and A. M., 
and Louis Bell post, G. A. R. Dr. Webster was twice 
married, and had three daughters, two of whom are 
living. His death occurred February 7, 18S7, and 
resulted from malaria, which he contracted during his 
army service, and from which he had been an almost 
constant sufferer for twenty years. 



JOHN P. WEBSTER. 



This comrade, who was then a farmer, died at Pena- 
cook, December 9, 1888, when in his forty-fifth year. 
He was the son of Ben P. and Anna (Woods) Webster, 
and a private of Company G from the muster-in till Jan- 
uary 15, 1864, when he was transferred to the Ninety- 



BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. . 75 ^ 

fourth company, Second battalion, I. C. The cause of 
death was chronic bronchitis. Comrade Webster was a 
member of W. I. Brown post. No. 31, of Penacook, and 
of Contoocook lodge. No. 26, I. O. O. F. He left a 
widow and one child. 



ALBERT R. WHEELER. 

A R. Wheeler enlisted in Capt. J. W. Babbitt's 
company (I) from Keene. He was in the battles of 
South Mountain, Antietam, Fredericksburg, siege of 
Vicksburg, Jackson, Wilderness, Spottsylvama, Bethesda 
Church, Cold Harbor, and Petersburg. On the evenmg 
of the i6th of June, 1864, he was wounded ni the left 
thigh, so badly that the doctors thought an amputation 
unnecessary, but he insisted upon it. After the opera- 
tion he was removed to Washington, where he died 
about June 25. At the "bloody angle" Comrade 
Wheeler, while acting as color corporal, brought ott 
the United States colors after the color bearer had been 
shot. 



SMITH A. WHITFIELD. 

Smith A. Whitfield was born in Francestown, March 24, 
1844. Up to the breaking out of the war he was a stu- 
dent and teacher, having fitted for college at the acade- 
mies at Francestown and Hancock, and during the 
winter taught school. He had passed his examination 
for entrance to Harvard college when, on April 19, 1861, 
his plans were interrupted by the call of duty, and he 
enlisted as private in Company I, Second New Hamp- 



752 NINTH NE W HAMPSHIRE. 

shire infantry, commanded by Capt. Edward L. Bailey 
of Manchester. With this regiment he went to the front, 
participating in the First Battle of Bull Run and in the 
movement to the Peninsula, where at the Battle of 
Williamsburg he was seriously wounded by a musket 
ball, which struck him at the bottom of the right ear and 
passing round lodged in the back of the neck. He was 
sent with other wounded to New Hampshire, and when 
the Ninth regiment was raised, on the recommenda- 
tion of General Hooker, Colonel Marston, and Lieuten- 
ant-Colonel Titus, was assigned to the captaincy of Com- 
pany G in that regiment. He assumed command of his 
company while still suffering from the wound in his 
head, and at the Battle of Antietam he was again badly 
wounded in the right foot and leg, while leading the 
skirmish line which was sent out to develop the position 
of the enemy after Burnside had carried the bridge on 
the left and gained the heights beyond. He rejoined 
his regiment upon partial recovery from this wound, and 
went with them to Kentucky. 

When the advance to Knoxville was made Captain 
Whitfield was detailed as adjutant-general on the staff of 
Gen. Alfred S. Frye, but was subsequently relieved by 
General Boyle and placed in command of the distribu- 
tion camp at Camp Nelson, then containing about 2,400 
men collected from different regiments and awaiting 
transportation to the front. He remained in command of 
the camp until the regiment moved to Mississippi, when, 
owing to severe illness superinduced by impure vaccine 
matter, he was left in the hospital at Cincinnati. On his 
recovery he was induced by Adjutant-General Thomas 
to take an examination for promotion to the One Hundred 
and Twenty-third United States Colored infantry, then 




Capt. Smith A. Whitfield Co. G. 



BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 753 

being raised in Kentucky. He appeared before the regu- 
lar army board at Lexington, and passed with such 
credit that he was at once commissioned as lieutenant- 
colonel of that regiment. He was subsequently made 
the superintendent of organization of colored troops for 
the state of Kentucky, and assisted in organizing, arm- 
ing, and equipping a number of regiments afterwards 
distinguished in the field. 

During the last few^ months of the war he was detailed 
as member of a general court-martial organized to try the 
notorious guerrillas who infested Kentucky at that 
period. He was honorably mustered out in October, 
1865, at Louisville, Ky., having served a little over four 
years and six months. Upon being mustered out he 
went to Cincinnati, Ohio, where, after a year spent in the 
great distilling house of S. N. Pike & Co., he entered 
the United States Internal Revenue service. His pro- 
motion here was steady and rapid, and, having served 
through all the grades, he was in 1877 made a revenue 
agent and assigned to duty at Chicago and Milwaukee. 
He was subsequently placed in charge of the district of 
Kentucky, where he remained for nearly three years. 
His service there was varied by occasional details far- 
ther south, and much of this time was spent in the hazard- 
ous and exciting duty- of hunting down and driving out 
the " moonshiners," who infested that great region 
embraced in the general terms the "mountain country" 
of the South. 

At a later period he was assigned to the district 
embracing New York city and Brooklyn, w^here from 
his long experience and thorough knowledge he was 
employed in examining the officers of the revenue ser- 
vice, deputy collectors, gangers, storekeepers, etc. He 

XI.VIII 



754 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. 

was again assigned to duty in the South, and was in 
Kentucky when he was offered and accepted the position 
of assistant postmaster at Cincinnati, Ohio. This posi- 
tion he held for about one year, when, on the accession 
of President Arthur, he was appointed postmaster of that 
city. This office he held during the Republican adminis- 
tration, and was continued by President Cleveland for a 
period of nearly eighteen months after his inauguration. 
A short time after this he was appointed by the governor 
of Ohio one of a board of five charcjed with the adminis- 
tration of public affairs in Cincinnati. He remained a 
member of the board for about two years, when, immedi- 
ately after the inauguration of President Harrison, he 
resigned to accept the office of second assistant postmas- 
ter-general of the United States. This office he held till 
the retirement of First Assistant Postmaster-General 
Clarkson, when he was at once appointed to succeed 
him, retaining this position until a few months prior to 
the close of President Harrison's administration, when he 
resigned to engage in business in Chicago. Unfortu- 
nately his health, which had become seriously impaired 
by long and arduous public service, broke down, and he 
was compelled to give up all business for a time, and 
retired to his summer home in northern Michigan, where 
he has lived most of the time during the last two years. 
His health has greatly improved by recreation and entire 
rest from care and responsibility, and it now seems that" 
he has still many years of useful activity before him. 

Colonel Whitfield has been almost from the time of his 
leaving the service an active and zealous politician of the 
best type, believing that in this country of popular gov- 
ernment no ijood citizen can afford to stand aloof from 
participation in public affairs. He has devoted a great 



BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 755 

deal of time to platform work, and is well known through- 
out Ohio and other states as an eloquent and forcible 
speaker. As a speaker in Grand Army circles and on 
Memorial days his services have been in great demand 
throughout the West and North-west, where he is well 
and most favorably known. 

He was married in 1882 to Miss Florence P. Morri- 
son, a most charming and brilliant young lady of Cin- 
cinnati, Ohio. His family consists of his wife and two 
little girls of nine and five years, and it is in the home 
circle that the colonel finds his truest happiness in the 
quiet and peaceful enjoyment of the rest he has earned 
by years of responsible, arduous, and long continued 
public life. His record is a remarkable one in every 
way, and a friend, speaking of him recently, said admir- 
ingly, — " Colonel Whitfield has been thirty years in the 
military and civil service, and in all those years has 
never been called upon to refute a single charge nor 
meet one single complaint." This of itself would consti- 
tute a fitting and memorable epitaph, when, in the fulness 
of time, one shall be placed over the comrade's grave. ^ 



CHARLES W. WILCOX. 

Charles W. Wilcox was born in Brookfield, Orange 
county, Vt., June 26, 1836, the son of Erastus and 
Electa (Brown) Wilcox, both natives of the good old 
college town of Hanover, N. H. His paternal grand- 
father (Elon Wilcox) was a native of Wethersfield, 

1 As these sheets were being prepared for the press, the news came 
of Colonel Whitfield's sudden death, at Chicago, 111., December 2, 
1895. — Editor. 



756 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. 

Conn. His maternal grandfather (Alba Brown) was a 
native of Hanover, N. H., and his maternal great-grand- 
father (Dr. Joel Brown), a noted physician of Hanover, 
was a direct descendant of one of the early promoters of 
the Massachusetts colony. Mr. Wilcox obtained his 
early education in the common schools, and attended 
one year at the Newbury (Vt.) academy. In 1857 he 
left the home farm to learn the jewelry business with 
Harvey Holton, in Wells River, Vt. Serving there two 
years, he then was employed by the old firm of Gray & 
Libby, in Boston, until the autumn of i860, when he 
went to Keene, entering the employ of F. W. Cobb & 
Co. In the spring of 1861 Mr. Cobb enlisted under 
Capt. Tile A. Barker of Company A, Second regiment, 
New Hampshire volunteers, leaving Mr. Wilcox in 
charge of the business. 

In the fall of 1861 the Sixth regiment, N. H. V., ren- 
dezvoused in Keene, preparatory to leaving for the front, 
and only the obligations which he felt himself to be 
under to his employer prevented Mr. Wilcox from enter- 
ing the United States service in that regiment. When, 
however, at the open-air war meetings in the early sum- 
mer of 1862, he listened to the eloquent speeches of that 
veteran statesman. Gen. James Wilson, of Lieut. H. B. 
Titus (afterward major, lieutenant-colonel, and colonel 
of the Ninth regiment), and others who were home on 
leave, Mr. Wilcox's patriotic blood could no longer with- 
stand the pressure. Meeting, on the morning of August 
5, near where the Keene soldiers' monument now stands, 
his most intimate friend, S. Henry Sprague, then book- 
keeper for C. C. Bridgman, after a few minutes' con- 
versation they went at once to Capt. J. W. Babbitt's 
recruiting office and enrolled themselves in the service of 



BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 757 

their country ; and many an old comrade can realize the 
relief they experienced when the deed was finally done. 
They went, too, and tented together in Concord, until 
the fortunes of the service separated them. Mr. Sprague 
was promoted to be second lieutenant and commissary of 
the regiment, and afterwards to be first lieutenant and 
acting assistant commissary on General Burnside's staff; 
while Mr. Wilcox, too, won deserved promotion, and 
closely followed the fortunes of the regiment until his 
capture at Spottsylvania, in May, 1864. It was Lieuten- 
ant Wilcox's sad privilege to be with Lieutenant Sprague 
in Cincinnati, O., on his return from Vicksburg, Miss., in 
the summer of 1863, and to care for him during his 
short and fatal illness with malarial fever. Granted 
leave of absence by General Burnside, Lieutenant Wil- 
cox accompanied the remains of his friend home to 
Keene, and then to Winchester, where the body of the 
brave, true-hearted young lieutenant, deeply mourned by 
his friends and all who knew him, was laid to rest with 
Masonic honors. 

Mr. Wilcox had enlisted as private in Company I, of 
the Ninth New Hampshire, but was soon promoted to be 
first sergeant, and shared the fortunes of the regiment 
through the battles of South Mountain, Antietam, and 
Fredericksburg. During the winter of 1862-3, while 
the regiment was in camp at Falmouth, Va., Sergeant 
Wilcox came near losing his life from black measles. 
In February, 1863, he was sent to Columbia College 
hospital, in Washington, D. C, then in charge of Dr. 
Crosby, of Hanover, N. H., rejoining his regiment at 
Cincinnati, O., March 29, 1863, when the Ninth was 
on its way from Newport News to Kentucky. May i, 
1863, Sergeant Wilcox was promoted to be second lieu- 



758 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. 

tenant of Company F, but owing to a severe attack of 
pneumonia was unable to go with the regiment on the 
Mississippi campaign, doing duty, however, at the con- 
valescent camp at Hickman's Bridge, Ky., and at Cin- 
cinnati, O., as soon as he was sufficiently recovered from 
his own illness. Rejoining his regiment on its return 
from Vicksburg, Lieutenant Wilcox was assigned to the 
command of his company, and was stationed at Kim- 
brough's Bridge, Cynthiana, Ky., until September 22, 
w^hen he was detailed to command Companies H and K, 
at Keller's Bridge, remaining there until December 4, 
when he was relieved, and returned to the command of 
his own company. 

Lieutenant Wilcox retained this position while the reg- 
iment was stationed at Point Burnside, Ky., also on its 
memorable march from there, via Cumberland Gap, to 
Knoxville, Tenn., and the return march to Kentucky, 
until April, 1864, when the regiment and corps rejoined 
the Arm}^ of the Potomac, when Captain Stone and 
Lieutenant Babb, who had been on detailed service else- 
where, returned to the company. In the bloody battles 
of the Wilderness on May 5, and of Spottsylvania Court- 
house, May 12, Lieutenant Wilcox was always at the 
front, seeming to fear no danger incurred in the per- 
formance of the duties assigned him, and was taken 
prisoner during the last-named battle. An interesting 
account of his capture and the sad scenes connected 
with his ten months life in southern prison-pens, will be 
found elsewhere in this volume. 

Lieutenant Wilcox was unable to rejoin his regiment 
after his return from rebel prisons, in March, 1865, on 
account of General Orders issued from the war depart- 
ment, and he was honorably discharged from the United 



BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 759 

States service, May 15, 1865. Soon after his discharge 
Mr. Wilcox was given a responsible position in the 
E. Howard & Co. watch factory, at Roxbury, Mass., 
remaining with them until taking up the watch and 
jewelry business on his own account, purchasing the 
business of Marshall Bros., in Milford, Mass., October, 
1866. Here he has since resided, and has built up a 
substantial business for himself, besides being promi- 
nently identified with several other local financial enter- 
prises. Always a staunch Republican in politics, and 
an active worker in his party's interest, although refus- 
ing rather than seeking public office, Mr. Wilcox was for 
several years a trustee of the town library, and for the 
past fifteen years has served as one of the park commis- 
sioners. He also represented the Second Worcester 
county representatives' district in the Massachusetts 
legislature of 1881. 

Comrade Wilcox is a charter member of Post 22, 
Department of Massachusetts, G. A. R., and as one of 
its first officials served as chief mustering officer and 
member of council of administration of the department. 
He is also a member of the board of trustees of the Sold- 
iers' Home, Chelsea, Mass., and was one of the original 
incorporators of the board. As chairman of the building 
committee to raise the necessary funds for the present 
beautiful and commodious Regimental head-quarters at 
The Weirs, Comrade Wilcox did yeoman service, and 
was president of the Regimental association in 1888, when 
the head-quarters building was dedicated. He married, 
September 25, 1867, Miss Ann M., daughter of Urial 
A. Clark, of Brookfield, Vt. One child has been born to 
them, a son, Clark H. 



760 NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE. 

ALVIN A. YOUNG. 

Alvin A. Young, of Company K, who was born in 
Newport, August 31, 1846, was twenty-seven days 
under sixteen years of age at the time of his enlistment. 
He was in the battles of South Mountain, Antietam, 
Fredericksburg, Vicksburg, Jackson, the Wilderness, 
and Spottsylvania. On March i, 1864, he was ap- 
pointed corporal. At Spottsylvania, just as the regiment 
was forced to fall back. Corporal Young stopped to fire 
at the Confederate colors, but a southern officer, seeing 
the act, sprang at him with a sabre, and he turned to 
follow his company ; but a Confederate who was in 
advance turned and thrust a bayonet through the corpo- 
ral's side. As he fell to the ground the southerners 
passed over him. After lying quiet for some time he 
was taken back through the woods to a large clearing, 
where there were quite a number of the Ninth Regiment 
boys who had been captured, among them Alvah R. 
Davis and Perley A. Smith, of Company K. They 
were soon separated, as all that were not wounded were 
marched off, while the disabled ones were carried back 
still farther. After nightfall an ambulance drove near, 
and another soldier was left, whose groans attracted 
Corporal Young's attention. Crawling to the place 
where the soldier lay, the comrade found to his surprise 
and great sorrow Sergt. Randolph Hall of Company 
K, wounded through the right lung. He laid down 
beside his comrade, spreading his own blanket over 
both, for it was raining hard. After about ten days of 
suffering from wounds, hunger, and lack of shelter, the 
two were placed in an army wagon and taken to a rail- 
road station, then to Richmond, where they were placed 



BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 761 

in an old tobacco factory, called No. 21. The hard 
journey, added to the exposure, proved too much for Ser- 
geant Hall, who died soon after reaching the prison. 
After four months of prison life Corporal Young was 
paroled and sent to Annapolis, Md., and there was 
given a furlough of thirty days. He was then ex- 
changed, and joined the regiment about the 15th of 
November at Petersburg, remaining with it until mus- 
tered out June 10, 1865. 

XLIX 



ERRATA. 



Pages 146-16 1. Read October, 1862, in running headlines, 
in place of " September, 1862." 

Pages 345-346. It will be noticed that the anecdote relating 
to the presence of Captain Alexander at an auction sale of 
slaves, pertains to the first sojourn of the regiment in Kentucky, 
before the Mississippi campaign. 

Page 504. In headline near foot of page, read Private 
Barnes of Company F, in place of " Private Barnes of Com- 
pany B." 

Page 531. A blank line ought not to separate the closing 
paragraph of Sergeant Burnham's letter, but should appear after 
the quotation. 

Page 622. In line 7 read cook-house, not "work-house." 

Page 623. In line 18 read Six, not "One." 



APPENDIX. 



ABBREVIATIONS USED IN ROSTER. 



A. A. G. 


Assistant Adjutant General. 


L. . 


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A. C. 


Army Corps. 


Lt. 


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Adjt. 


Adjutant. 


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Adjutant General's Ofifice. 


Mis. 


Missing. 


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Miscellaneous. 


Appreh. 


Apprehended. 


M. 0. roll 


Muster out roll. 


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Assistant Quartermaster. 


Muse. 


Musician. 


Art. 


Artillery. 


Must. 


Muster, mustered. 


Asst. 


Assistant. 


N. f. r. A. G. 


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Born. 


Adjutant 


General's Office, Wash- 


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Battalion. 


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B. H. 


Boston Harbor. 


N. Y. H. 


New York Harbor. 


Brig. 


Brigade, Brigadier. 


Non-Com. 


Non-commissioned. 


Bvt. 


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Ord. Seaman 


. Ordinary seaman. 


Capt. 


Captain. 


Par. 


Paroled. 


Captd. 


Captured. 


P. 0. ad. 


Post-office address, last 


Cav. 


Cavalry. 




known. 


Co. 


Company. 


Prin. 


Principal. 


Col. 


Colonel. 


Priv. 


Private. 


Com. 


Commissary, Commission. 


Prom. 


Promoted. 


Com'd. 


Commissioned. 


Q. M. . 


Quartermaster. 


Corp. 


Corporal. 


Re-enl. . 


. Re-enlisted. 


Cred. 


Credited. 


Regt. . 


Regiment. 


C. S. 


Commissary of Subsistence. 


Res. 


Residence. 


Dept. 


. Department. 


Sergt. . 


Sergeant. 


Des. 


Deserted. 


Sev. 


Severely. 


Disab. 


Disabled. 


s. 0. . 


Special Orders. 


Disch. 


. Discharged. 


Surg. 


Surgeon. 


Dishon. 


Dishonorably. 


Tm. ex. . 


Term expired. 


Div. 


Division. 


Tr. 


. Transferred. 


Enl. 


Enlisted. 


U. S. A. 


United States Army. 


Exch. 


. Exchanged. 


u. s. s. . 


United States Ship. 


F. and S 


. Field and Staff. 


Unas'd . 


. Unassigned. 


G. C. M. 


General Court Martial. 


U. S. C. T. 


United States Colored 


Gd. from 


mis. Gained from missing. 




Troops. 


Gen. 


General. 


U. S. Sig. Coi 


ps United States Sig- 


G. O. 


General Orders. 




nal Corps. 


H. . 


. Heavy. 


u. s. s. s. 


United States Sharp- 


Hosp. 


Hospital. 




shooters. 


I.e. In 


valid Corps; name changed 


V. . 


. Volunteers. 


to Veteran Reserve Corps, March 


V. R. C. 


Veteran Reserve Corps. 


i8, I 


864. 


Wd. 


Wounded. 


Inf. 


Infantry. 


Wds. . 


Wounds. 



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SERVICE OF MEMBERS 



NINTH REGIIMENT 



IN 



OTHER ORGANIZATIONS. 



FIRST REGIMENT, N. H. V. 

Bailey, Sewell B. Co. I; b. Salem; afj;e 35; res. Chichester; enl. 
Apr. 27, '61; must, in May 4, '61, as Priv. ; must, out Aug. 9, '61. 

Bennett, Alden B. Co. E; b. Dunstable. Mass.; age 42; res. Mil- 
ford; eul. Apr. 19, '61; must, in May 2, '61, as Muse.; must, out 
Aug, 9, '61. See State Service and Miscell. Organizations. 

Colburn, Eleazer. Co. G; b. Dorchester; age 21; res. Keene; enl. 
Apr. 21, '61; must, in May 2, '61, as Priv.; must, out Aug. 9, '61. 
P. O. ad., Meredith. 

Cooper, John B. Co. D; b. Walpole; age 22; res. Newport; enl. 
Apr. 22, '61; must, in May 2, '61, as Corp.; must, out Aug. 9, '61. 
P. O. ad., Newport. 

Dean, Joseph E. Co. D; b. Wrentham, Mass.; age 21; res. New- 
port; enl. Apr. 20, '61; must, in May 2, '61, as Priv.; must, out 
Aug. 9, '61. 

Densmore, Edgar A. Co. E; b. Sharon, Vt. ; age 19; res. Nashua; 
enl. Apr. 19, '61; must, in May 2, '61, as Priv.; must, out Aug. 9, 
'61. 

Edgerly, Augustus S. Co. F; b. Saubornton; age 31; res. Nashua; 
app. Capt. Apr. 30, '61; must, in May 3, '61; must, out Aug. 9, '61. 

Emery, George W. Co. B; b. Somersworth ; age 18; res. Dover; 
enl. Apr. IS, '61; must, in May 2, '61, as Priv.; must, out Aug. 9, 
'61. 

Fellows, Enoch Q. Co. K; b. Sandwich; age 3.5; res. Sandwich; 
app. 1 Lt. Apr. 30, '61; must, in May 2, '61, as Regtl. Adjt. ; must, 
out Aug. 9, '61. P, O, ad,, Centre Sandwich, See 3 N. H. V, 



ii8 Service of Members in 

Ford, Henry. Co. K; b. Orange; age 22; res. Grafton; enl. May 2, 
01; must, in May 7, '61, as Priv. Discli. Aug. 9, '61, tm. ex. P. 
O. ad., Grafton. 

Gray, Benjamin. Co. 1; b. Sheffield, Yt. ; age 22; res. Holderness; 
enl. Apr. 19, '61; must, in May 4, '61, as Priv.; must, out Aug. 9, 
"01. P. O. ad., Bristol. See Unattached Co., N. H. V. 

Hackett, Prank B. Co. C; b. St. Albans, Me.; age 18; res. Man- 
chester; enl. April 18, '61; must, in May 2, '61, as Priv. ; must, out 
Aug. 9, '61. See Unattached Co., N. H. V. 

Heath, Webster. Co. I; b. Bristol; age 26; res. Bristol; enl. Apr. 
23, '61; must, in May 4, '61, as Priv.; must, out Aug. 9, '61. P. O. 
ad., Wakefield, Mass. 

Hutchinson, Elijah. Co. D; b. Newport; age 20; res. Newport; 
enl. Apr. 20, '61; must, in May 2, '61, as Priv.; must, out Aug. 9, 
'61. 

Hutchinson, Jacob R. Co. D; b. Sunapee; age 25; res. Newport; 
enl. Apr. 22, '01 ; must, in May 2, '61, as Priv. ; must, out Aug. 9, 
'61. P. O. ad., Newport. 

Hutchinson, Prentiss C. Co. D; b. Newport; age 2.3; res. New- 
port; enl. Apr. 20, '(Jl; must, in May 2, '61, as Priv.; must, out 
Aug. 9, '(il. P. O. ad., Newport. 

Kelsey, Roswell J. Co. D; b. Newport; age 21; res. Newport; 
enl. A])r. 20, '01 ; must, in May 2, '61, as Priv.; must, out Aug. 9, 
'01. P. O. ad., Newport. 

Morse, Francis. Co. F; b. Danville, Vt. ; age 34; res. Nashua; enl. 
Apr. 30, '61; must, in May 3, '61, as Corp.; must, out Aug. 9, '61. 

Mudgett, John F. Co. H; b. Epping; age 21; res. Epping; enl. 
Apr. 22, '61; must, in May 4, '61, to Apr. 26, '61, as Priv.; must, 
out Aug. 9, '61. 

Phelps, Peter F. Co. K; b. Wilmot; age 24; res. Andover; enl. 
May 1, '01; must, in May 7, '61, as Priv.; must, out Aug. 9, '61. 

Raymond, Hercules W. Co. G; b. Georgia, Vt. ; age 21; res. 
Rindge; enl. Apr. 20, '61; must, in May 2, '61, as Priv.; must, out 
Aug. 9, '61. P. O. ad., E. Alstead. See 18 N. H. Y. 

Shea, Jeremiah. Co. D; b. Kerry Co., Ir. ; age 21; res. Nashua; 
enl. Apr. 10, '01; must, in May 2, '01, as Priv.; must, out Aug. 9, 
'61. P. O. ad., Nashua. 

Towns, Charles E. Co. G; b. Keene; age 22; res. Keene; enl. Apr, 
22, '61; must, in May 2, '61, as Corp.; must, out Aug. 9, '61. 

Weir, William W. Co. E; b. Canada; age 36; res. Nashua; enl. 
Apr. 20, '01; must, in May 2, '01, as Priv.; must, out Aug. 9, '61. 



Other Organizations. 119 

Whipple, John P. Co. F; b. Andover; age 28; res. Nashua; enl. 
Apr. 30, '61; must, in May 3, '61, as Priv, ; must, out Aug. 9, '61. 
P. O. ad., Biddeford, Me. 

SECOND REGIMENT, N. H. V. 

Boyden, George W. Co. B; b. Industry, Me.; age 28; res.. Con- 
cord; enl. May 11, '61; must, in June 1, '61, as Sergt. ; app. 1 Lt. 
Nov. 8, '61; resigned May 20, '62. 

Emerson, John A. Co. K; b. Deerfield; age 21; res. Deerfield; 
enl. Sept. 2, '61; must, in Sept. 9, '61, as Priv. ; captd. May 5, '62, 
Williamsburg, Va. ; released; disch. May 22, '62, Washington, 
D. C. P. O. ad., Deerfield. 

Meserve, Joseph C. Co. E; b. Barnstead; age 18; res. North wood; 
enl. Apr. 26, '61, for 3 mos. ; not must, in; paid by State; re-enl. 
May 21, '61, for 3 yrs. ; must, in June 3, '61, as Priv. ; wd. July 21, 
'61, Bull Kun, Va. ; disch. wds. Aug. 1, '61, Washington, D. C. 
P. O. ad.. South Barnstead. 

Page, Horace. Co. H; b. Henniker; age 21; res. Henniker; enl. 
Apr. 29, '61, for 3 mos. ; not must, in; re-enl. May 20, '61, for 3 
yrs.; must, in June 5, '61, as Priv.; disch. disab. Oct. 22, '61, Bla- 
densburg, Md. P. O. ad., Deering. 

Randall, George W. Co. C; b. Providence, R. I.; age 21; res. 
Salem; enl. May 13, '61; must, in June 1, '61, as Priv.; disch. 
disab. Aug. 28, '61, Washington, D. C. 

Randall, Horace. Co. D; b. Rochester; age 22; res. Rochester; 
enl. May 22, '61; must, in June 1, '61, as Priv.; disch. disab. Aug. 
21, '61. P. O. ad., Haverhill, Mass. See 4 N. H. V. 

Seaver, Thomas B. Co. K; b. Scarborough, Me.; age 41; res. 
Portsmouth; enl. May 22, '61; must, in June 8, '61, as Priv.; 
disch. disab. Mar. 15, '62, Washington, D. C. See Unattached Co., 
N. H. v., and V. R. C. 

Stevens, Josiah, Jr. F. and S. ; b. Newport; age 35; res. Concord; 
app. Maj. May 3, '61; must, in June 10, '61; resigned July 25, '62. 

Titus, Herbert B. Co. A; b. Chesterfield; age 27; res. Chester- 
field; enl. Apr. 25, '61, for 3 mos., as Priv.; not must, in; paid by 
State; re-enl. May 22, '61, for 3 yrs.; app. 2 Lt. June 4, '61; must, 
in to date May 31, '61, as 2 Lt. ; app. 1 Lt. to date Sept. 17, '61; tr. 
to Co. F, Sept. 17, '61; to Co. A, Nov. 1, '61; disch. July 1, '62, to 
accept promotion. P. O. ad., Nyack, N. Y. 

Whitfield, Smith A. Co. I; b. Francestown; age 20; res. Frances- 
town; enl. Apr. 25, '61, for 3 mos.; not must, in; paid by State; 
re-enl. May 23, '61, for 3 yrs.; must, in June 7, '61, as Priv.; wd. 
May 5, '62, Williamsburg, Va.; disch. Sept. 12, '62, to accept pro- 
motion. Died Dec. 2, '95, Chicago, 111. See U. S. C. T. 



I20 Service of Members in 

THIRD REGIMENT, N. H. V. 

Currier, Julius C. Co. D; b. Newton; age23; res. Seabrook; enl. 
Aug. 19, '61; must, in Aug. 23, '61, as Piiv. ; disch. disab. Oct. IT, 
'61, Annapolis, Md. See Miscell. Organizations. 

Davis, Henry. Co. B; b. Kingston; age 27; res. Kingston; enl. 
•July ii(i, (31; must, in Aug. 22, '61, as Priv. ; disch. disab. Feb. 22, 
'02, Washington', D. C. P. O. ad., Kingston. 

Fellows, Enoch Q. F. and S.; b. Sandwich; age 36; res. Sand- 
wich; app. Col. Aug. 10, '61; must, in Aug. 26, '61; disch. June 
2S, '02. P. O. ad.. Centre Sandwich. See 1 N. H. V. 

Sweet, Gardiner. Co. B; b. Newport; age 26; res. Newport; enl. 
.Inly 2."j, '01 ; lunst. in Aug. 22, '61, as Priv.; disch. disab. Dec. 7, 
'61, Annapolis, Md. 

Wallace, Joseph H. Co. H; b. Manchester; age 21; res. Manches- 
ter; enl. Aug. ."), '01; must, in Aug. 23, '61, as Priv.; disch. disab. 
Oct. 18, '61, Annapolis, Md. See State Service. 

FOURTH REGIMENT, N. H. V. 

Bronson, Louis. Co. D; b. Canada; age 21; cred. Concord; enl. 
Aug. 5, '04; must, in Aug. 5, '64, as Priv. ; must, out Aug. 23, '65; 
enl. for 9 N. H. V., but failed to reach that regt., joining instead 
the 4 N. H. V. Is erroneously reported on rolls of Co. H, 9 N. H. 
v., as having des. en route to regt., Aug., '64. 

Flanders, William C. Co. E; b. Boston, Mass.; age 18; res. L)un- 
barton; enl. Aug. 21, '61; must, in Sept. 18, '61, as Priv.; disch. 
disal). Jan. 3, '62, Hilton Head, S. C. See Unattached Co., N. H. V. 

Hale, Thomas. Co. D; b. Newbury, Mass.; age 54; res. Laconia; 
enl. July 25, '61; must, in Sept. 18, '61, as Muse; disch. disab. 
Jan. 12, '62. See Unattached Co., N. H. V., Miscell. Organiza- 
tions, and State Service. 

Jones, Archible R. Co. B; b. Jefferson, Me.; age "43"; res. 
Nashua; enl. Aug. 30, '61: must, in Sept. 18, '01, as Priv.; disch. 
disal). Feb. 11, '02, Hilton Head, S. C. 

Marsh, Edward K. Co. D; b. Calais, Vt. ; age 18; res. Lynde- 
borough; enl. Aug. 14, '61; must, in Sept. 18, '61, as Priv.; 
disch. disab. Jan. 31, '62, 

Pillsbury, William S. Co. I; b. Sutton; age 28; res. London- 
<lerry; enl. Sept. 14, '61, as Priv.; app. 1 Lt. Sept. 20, '61; must. 
in to date Sept. 18, '61, as 1 Lt.; resigned Oct. 20, '61. P. O. ad., 
Londonderry. See 1 N. H. H. Art. 

Randall, Horace. Co. F; b. Rochester; age 22; res. Rochester; 
enl. Aug. 15, '01; must, in Sept. 18, '61; disch. disab. Jan. 9, '62. 
P. O. ad., Haverhill, Mass. See 2 N. H. V. 



Other Organizations. 121 

Randall, Daniel C. Co. I; b. New Brunswick; age "36"; res. 
Haverhill; enl. Sept. 2, '61; must, in Sept. 18, '61, as Priv. ; disch. 
disab. Nov. 17, '62, Beaufort, S. C. 

Tilton, Charles W. Co. K; b. Northfield; age 31; res. Sanbornton; 
enl. July 22, '61, as Priv.; app. 2 Lt. Sept. 20, '61; must, in to date 
Sept. 18, '61, as 2 Lt. ; resigned Jan. 16, '62. P. O. ad., Tilton. 
See State Service. 

Wells, Milo E. Co. F; b. Littleton; age 22; res. Littleton; enl. 
Aug. 31, '61; must, in Sept. 18, '61, as Priv.; disch. disab. Jan. 19, 
'62. P. O. ad., Monroe. See V. E. C. 

FIFTH REGIMENT. 

Bresland, Joseph. Co. G; b. Ireland; age 23; res. Charlestown; 
enl. Sept. 27, '61; must, in Oct, 12, '61, as Priv.; wd. Dec. 1.3, '62, 
Fredericksburg, Va. ; disch. disab. Api'il 2, '63, Alexandria, Va. 
P. O. ad., Nat. Home, Wis. 

Herr, Michiel. Co. K; b. Switzerland; age 36; res. Switzerland; 
enl. Sept. 23, '61; must, in Oct. 12, '61, as Priv.; disch. disab. Feb. 
7, '62. 

SIXTH REGIMENT. 

Cutler, George W. Co. G. ; b. Boston, Mass. ; age 22; res. Nashua; 
enl.- Nov. 26, '61 ; must, in Dec. 6, '61, as Priv. ; disch. disab. Mar. 
4, '62, Roanoke Isl., N. C. See V. R. C. 

Davis, James Leonard. Co. G; b. Gilsum; age 27; res. Gilsum; 
enl. Oct. 28, '61; must, in Dec. 7, '61, as Priv.; disch. Sept. 10, '62. 

Smith, Jason. Co. B; b. Lyman; age 32; res. Littleton; enl. Oct. 5, 
'61; must, in Nov. 27, '61, as Priv.; disch. disab, Oct. 15, '62, Alex- 
andria, Va, 

EIGHTH REGIMENT. 
Hamblett, Judson A. Co. A; b. Milford; age 18; res, Nashua; 
enl. Sept. 30, '61; must, in Oct. 2.5, '61, as Muse; disch. Oct., '61, 
on writ of habeas corpus. P. O. ad., Nashua. See Lafayette 
Artillery. 

ELEVENTH REGIMENT. 

Warner, Robert. Co. K; b. Russia; age 35; cred. Peterborough; 
enl. Dec. 28, '63; must, in Dec. 28, '63, as Priv.; reported on m. o. 
roll as tr. to 6 N. H. V., June 1, '65, with remark "absent sick"; 
never joined 6 N.-H. V. N, f. r. A. G. O. Originally assigned to 
9 N, H, v., but failed to join that regt. 

FIFTEENTH REGIMENT. 

Ford, James E. Co, F; b. Orange; age 18; res, Danbury; cred, 
Danbury; enl. Sept. 17, '62; must, in Oct, 15, '62, as Corp,; wd. 



122 Service of Members in 

May 27, '63, Port Hudson, La. ; must, out Aug. 13, '63. Died Apr. 
29, '8"). Supposed identical with James E. Ford, Co. L, 1 N. H. H. 
Art. 

SIXTEENTH REGIMENT. 

Cram, Albert. Co. I; b. Dublin; age 26; res. Stoddard, cred. Stod- 
dard; enl. Sept. 1, '62; must, in Oct. 23, '62, as Priv. ; must, out 
Aug. 20, '63. P. O. ad., Antrim. 

French, Stephen S. Co. I; b. Winchester; age 18; res. Keene, 
cred. Walpole; enl. Nov. 13, '62; must, in Nov. 14, '62, as Priv.; 
must, out Oct. 20, '63. P. O. ad., Dayton, Ohio. 

Sargent, Frank B. Co. H; b. New London; age 18; res. New 
London, cred. Hillsborough; enl. Nov. 10, '62; must, in Nov. 10, 
'62, as Priv.; app. Corp. June 19, '63; must, out Aug. 20, '63. P. 
O. ad., Stoneham, Mass. 

SEVENTEENTH REGIMENT. 

Bedell, Austin. Co. A; b. Jefferson; age 18; res. Jefferson, cred. 
Jeirerson; enl. Sept. 20, '62; must, in Nov. 22, '62, as Priv.; tr. to 
Co. F, 2 N. H. v., xVpr. 16, '63; must, out Oct. 9, '63. 

Cummings, George. Co. A; b. Leeds, Can. ; age 18; cred. Strafford; 
enl. Nov. 3, '62; must, in Nov. 22, '62, as Priv.; tr. to Co. B, 2 N. 
H. v., Apr. 16, '63; to Co. H, May 31, '63; must, out Oct. 9, '63. 
P. O. ad., Lancaster. 

Lucas, Harvey H. Co. A; b. Lancaster; age 30; res. Lancaster, 
cred. Lancaster; enl. Oct. 6, '62; must, in Nov. 22, '62, as Wag- 
oner; tr. to Co. F, 2 N. H. V., Apr. 16, '63, as Priv.; mis. July 2, 
'63, Gettysburg, Pa.; gd. from mis.; must, out Oct. 9, '63. P. O. 
ad., Canaan, Vt. 

Pratt, Alfred C. Co. A; b. Hebron, Me.; age 44; res. Jefferson, 
cred. Jefferson; enl. Oct. 1, '62; must, in Nov. 22, '62, as Priv. ; tr. 
to Co. H, 2 X. H. v., Apr. 16, '63; disch. disab. June 9, '63, Con- 
cord. P. O. ad., Lancaster. 

EIGHTEENTH REGIMENT. 

Brown, William I. F. and S. ; b. Attleborough,Mass. ; age 24; res. 
('oncunl (Fisherville, now Penacook); app. Maj. Oct. 13, "64; must, 
in Oct. 22, '64, for 1 yr. ; killed Mar. 29, '65, Ft, Steadman, Va. 

Emerson, John S. F. and S. ; b. Chester; age 32; res. Sandwich; 
apjt. Surg. March 22, '6.'}; must, in Apr. 16, '65, for 1 yr.; must, 
out July 29, 'G"). Died Sept. 23, '86, Lynn, Mass. 

Raymond, Hercules W. Co. A; b. Georgia, Vt. ; age 24; cred. 
Alstead; enl. Sept. 3, '64, for 1 yr. ; must, in Sept. 13, '64, as Priv. ; 
must, out June 10, '65. P. O. ad.. East Alstead. See 1 N. H. V. 



Other Organizations. 123 

Eolfe, Horace H. Co. I; b. Concord; aj^eSO; cred. Alton; enl. Feb. 
20, '65, for 3 yrs. ; must, in Feb. 20, '65, as 1 Sergt. ; app. 2 Lt. July 
29, '65; not must.; must, out July 29, '65, as 1 Sergt, Died Oct. 
22, '67, Concord. See Miscell. Organizations. 

Shepard, Aaron W. F. and S.; b. Biddeford, Me.; age 23; res. 
Nashua; app. Asst, Surg. Nov. 10, '64; must, in Dec. 18, '64, for 1 
yr. ; must, out July 29, '65. P. O. ad., Brooklyn, N. Y. 

FIRST N. E. PAVALRY. 

Hussey, Charles B. Co. L; b. Kochester; age 18; res. Eochester ; 
enl. Jan. 17, '62; must, in Jan. 18, '62, as Priv. ; disch. Jan. 22, 
'62, on writ of habeas corpus. 

FIRST COMPANY, N. H. HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

Bickford, Orion W. b. Lebanon, Me.; age 44; res. Ossipee; enl. 
July2, 'G3; must, in July 2, '63, as Priv.; des. July 22, '64, Ft. 
Constitution, Portsmouth Harbor. Died June 10, '94, Boston, 
Mass. See Unattached Co., N. H. V., and State Service. 

Center, Benjamin L. b. Londonderry; age 44; res. Manchester; 
enl. Apr. 23, '63; must, in May 25, '63, as Muse; must, out Sept. 
11, '65. Died May 23, '83, Nashua. See Unattached Co., N. H. V. 

Short, Ai Jl. b. Plainfield; age 33; cred. Claremont; enl. Aug. 31, 
'64, for 1 yr. ; must, in Aug. 31, '64, as Priv.; disch. Aug. 31, '65, 
Concord, tm. ex. P. O. ad., Unity. 

SECOND COMPANY, N. H. HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

Brown, John H. b. Chester; age "18" ; res. Boscawen (Fisherville, 
now Peuacook), cred. Boscawen; enl. Aug. 10, '63; must, in Aug. 
18, '63, as Priv.; must, out Sept. 11, '65, Died Jan. 20, '75, Notting- 
ham. 

Pettengill, Wyman. b. New Hampton; age " 19" ; cred. Loudon; 
enl. Sept. 5, '64, for 1 yr. ; must, in Sept. 5, '64, as Priv. Died, dis. 
Mar, 14, '65, Ft. Mansfield, Md, 

FIRST COMPANY REGIMENT, N. H. HEAVY ARTIL- 
LERY. 

Abbott, Jacob. Co. K; b, Ossipee; age 35; cred, Ossipee; enl. Sept, 
15, '64, for 1 yr. ; must, in Sept. 17, '64, as Priv,; must, out June 
15, '65, Died Oct, 16, '80. 

Center, Benjamin L. Co, A, See 1 Co,, N, H, H, Art, 

Chase, George A. Co. H; b, Newport; age 21 ; cred, Newport; enl. 
Sept. 3, '64, for 1 yr, ; must, in Sept. 7, '64, as Corp, ; app, Sergt. 
Jan, 19, '65; must, out June 15, '65, P, O. ad., Lowell, Mass, See 
State Service, 



124 Service of Members in 

Pillsbury, William S. Co. D. ; b. Sutton; age 31; cred. London- 
derry; api). 1 Lt. Sept. 5, '04; must, in Sept. 7, '64, for 1 yr. ; 
nuust. out June 15, '65. P. O. ad., Londondeily. See 4 N. H. V. 

Scott, Josiah. Co. II; b. West Fairlee, Vt. ; age 28; cred. Sunapee; 
enl. Sept. 3, '64, for 1 yr. ; must, in Sept. 7, '64, as Priv. ; must, out 
June 15, '65. P. O. ad., Sunapee. 

Short, Ai R. Co. A. See 1 Co., N. II. H. Art. 

Snell, Nehemiah C. Co. L; \>. Madison; age 42; cred. Madison; 
enl. Sept. 17, "64, for 1 yr. ; must, in Sept. 20, '64, as Priv.; must, 
out June 15, '65. Died April 14, '71, Madison. 

Wilson, Silas Henry. Co. L; b. Windham; age 28; cred. Salem; 
enl. Sept. 7, '64, for 1 yr. ; must, in Sept. 14, '64, as Sergt. ; must, 
out June 15, '65. P. O. ad., Ayer Village, Mass. 

FIRST REGIMENT CAVALRY. 

Caldwell, Ira. Co. B; b. Pelham; age "19"; cred. Dublin: enl. 

Mar. 2!', '(U; must, in Mar. 29, '64, as Priv. Died, dis. Mar. 14, '05, 
Nashua. 

SECOND U. S. SHARPSHOOTERS. 

Hodge, Joseph K. Co. G; b. Lisbon; age 20; res. Lancaster; enl. 
Oct. 14, "01; must, in Dec. 12, '61, as Priv.; \vd. Sept. 17, '62, 
Antietam, Md.; disch. disab. Dec. 3, '62, New York city. See 
State Service. 

UNATTACHED COMPANY, N. H. V. 

Austin, Wanton J. b. Providence, R. I. ; age 25; res. Somersworth ; 
enl. April 1, '02; must, in May 15, '62, as Priv.; tr. to Co. E, Aug. 
6, '62; disch. Oct. 22, '62, Concord, See State Service. 

Ayer, James C. b. Deerfield; age "39"; res. Somersworth; enl. 
April 1, '02; must, in May 15, '02, as Sergt.; tr. to Co. E., Aug. 6, 
'62; disch. disab. Dec. 10, '63, Baltimore, Md. P. O. ad., Somers- 
worth. See State Service. 

Bean, Amos S. b. Salisbury; age 21; res. Manchester; enl. Apr. 17, 
'62; must, in May 15, '62, as Priv.; tr. to Co. E, Aug. 6, '02; disch. 
disab. Jan. 22, '04, Camp Dennison, Ohio. P. O. ad., Marlborough, 
Mass. 

Bickford, Orion W. b. Lebanon, Me.; age 43; res. Somersworth; 
enl. Apr. 1, '62; must, in May 15, '62, as Priv.; tr. to Co. E, Aug. 6, 
'62; disch. Oct. 22, '62, Concord. Died June 10, '94, Boston, Mass. 
See 1 Co., N. H. II. Art., and State Service. 

Bond, Edson. b. Chelsea, Vt. ; age 45; res. Manchester; enl. April 
21, '02; must, in May 15, '62, as Priv.; tr. to Co. E, Aug. 6, '62; 
disch. Oct. 22, '62, Concord. Died Mar. 9, '82, Manchester. 



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Brown, Asa. b. Northfield; age 44; res. Manchester; enl. April 23, 
'62; must, in May 15, '62, as Priv. ; tr. to Co. E, Aug. 6, '62. Died, 
dis. .July 18, '63, Milldale, Miss. 

Center, Benjamin L. b. Londonderry; age 43; res. Londonderry; 
enl. Apr. 15, '62; must, in May 15, '62, as Muse; tr. to Co. E, Aug. 
6, '62; disch. Oct. 22, '62, Concord. See 1 Co., N. H. H. Art. 

Chisholm, Thomas Melville, b. Boston, Mass.; age 24; res. Mil- 
ton; enl. Apr. 1, '62; must, in May 15, '62, as 1 Sergt. ; tr. to Co. E, 
Aug. 6, '62; app. 2 Lt. Co. B, Aug. 10, '62; resigned Oct. 9, '62. See 
U. S. C. T. and State Service. 

Clark, Eufus W. b. Illinois; age 19; res. Manchester; enl. May 6, 
'62; must, in May 15, '62, as Priv. : tr. to Co. E, Aug. 6, '62; killed 
Dec. 13, '62, Fredericksburg, Va. 

Cleaves, George P. b. Kennebunk, Me.; age 18; res. Somersworth ; 
enl. Apr. 1, '62; must, in May 15, '62, as Priv.; tr. to Co. E, Aug. 
. 6, '62; killed May 12, '64, Spottsylvania, Va. See State Service. 

Curtis, William B. b. Maiden, Mass.; age 27; res. Somersworth ; 
enl. Apr. 16, '62; must, in May 15, '62, as Priv.; tr. to Co. E, 
Aug. 6, '62. Died, dis. Aug. 17, '63, Cairo, 111. 

Davis, Andrew J. b. Somersworth; age 18; res. Somersworth; enl. 
May 5, '62; must, in May 15, '62, as Priv.; tr. to Co. E, Aug. 6, '62; 
wd. Dec. 13, '62, Fredericksburg, Va. Died, dis. July 20, '63, Mill- 
dale, Miss. 

Elwell, John F. b. North Berwick, Me.; age 18; res. Somersworth; 
" enl. April 15, '62; must, in May 15, '62, as Priv.; tr. to Co. E, Aug. 
6, '62; disch. May 14, '65, Alexandria, Va., tm. ex. P* O. ad., 
South Lawrence, Mass. 

Fernald, Owen. b. Eliot, Me.; age 38; res. Eliot, Me.; enl. Apr. 
14, '62; must, in May 15, '62, as Priv.; tr. to Co. E, Aug. 6, '62. 
Died, dis. Jan. 27, '63, Falmouth, Va. 

Flanders, William C. b. Boston, Mass.; age IS; res. Dunbarton; 
enl. Apr. 19, '62; must, in May 15, '62, as Priv.; tr. to Co. E, Aug. 
6, '62; to Co. F, 3 L C, Sept. 16, '63; disch. May 15, '6.5, to date 
May 14, '65, Hartford, Conn., tm. ex. Died May 2, '80, Goffstown. 
See 4 ?i. H. V. 

Frisbee, Howard S. b. Kittery, Me.; age 19; res. Kittery, Me. ; 
enl. Mar. 27, '62; must, in May 15, '62, as Priv.; tr. to Co. E, Aug. 
6, '62; disch. May 19, '65, Concord, tm. ex. P. O. ad., Portsmouth. 

Gilson, Alonzo. b. Portland, Me. ; age 22; i-es. New Castle; enl. Apr. 
1, '62; must, in May 15, '62, as Priv.; tr. to Co. E, Aug. 6, '62; 
disch. May 14, '65, Alexandria, Va., tm. ex. P. O. ad., Wolfe- 
borough. See State Service. 



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\ 
Goodwin, Edward F. b. South Berwick, Me. ; ajjeSl; res. South 
]}i'rvvick, Me.; eiil. Apr. 10, '62; must, in May 15, '62, as Priv. ; tr. 
to Co. E, Aug. 6, 'C2; disch. May 14, '65, Alexandria, Va., tm. ex. 

Gove, James B. age 39; res. Concord; app. 1 Lt. May 15, '62; must, 
in May 15, '62; tr. to Co. E, Aug. 6, '62; disch. Oct. 22, '62, Con- 
cord. 

Gray, Benjamin, b. Sheffield, Vt. ; age 23; res. Holderness; enl. 
Apr. 11, '02; must, in May 15, '62, as Priv.; tr. to Co. E, Aug. 6, 
'62; disch. May 14, '65, Alexandria, Va., tm. ex. P. O. ad., Bris- 
tol. See 1 N. H. V. 

Hackett, Frank B. b. St. Albans, Me.; age 20; res. Manchester; 
('111. May 0, '62; must, in May 15, '62, as Priv.; tr. to Co. E, Aug. 6, 
'62; wd. Sept. 14, '62, South Mountain, Md. ; disch. disab. Dec. 22, 
'02, Washington, D. C. See 1 N. H. V. 

Hale, Thomas, b. Newbury, Mass. ; age 55; res. Laconia; enl. May 
13, '02; must, in May 15, '62; as Muse; tr. to Co. E, Aug. 6, '62; 
disch. Oct. 22, '62, Concord. See 4 N. H. V., Miscell. Organiza- 
tions, and State Service. 

Hoit, John B. b. Bristol; age 22; res. Manchester; enl. Apr. 25, '02; 
must, in May 15, '62, as Priv.; tr to Co. E, Aug. 0, '62; app. Corp.; 
disch. May 14, '65, Alexandria, Va., tm. ex. P. O. ad., Wilmot 
Flat. 

Hutchinson, Asa T. b. St. John, N. B. ; age 28; res. Manchester; 
app. 2 Lt. May 1."), '62; must, in May 1.5, '62; app. 1 Lt. Co. E, Aug. 
10, '62; Capt. Co. D, Jan. 1, '63; must, out June 10, '65. See State 
Service. 

Joy, Charles H. b. Somersworth; age 19; res. South Berwick, Me.; 
enl. Apr. 1, '62; must, in May 15, '02. as Priv.; tr. to Co. E, Aug. 
6, '62; disch. May 14, '05, Alexandria, Va., tm. ex. P. O. ad., 
Mendocino, Cal. See State Service. 

Jones, Jabez S. b. Seabrook; age 27; res. Salisbury, Mass.; enl, 
Apr. 1, '02; must, in May 15, '02, as Priv.; tr. to Co. E, Aug. 6, '62; 
disch. disab. Dec. 4, '62, Falmouth, Va, See State Service. 

Kidder, William W. b, Canaan; age 18; res. Concord (Fisherville, 
now Penacook); enl. May 6, '62; must, in May 15, '02, as Priv.; tr, 
to Co, E, Aug, 0, '02; disch, disab. Oct. 22, '02, Pleasant Valley, 
^rd. Died Jan. 23, '79, Brockton, Mass. 

Mayo, Lysander R. b. Waterville, Me.; age 22; res. Somersworth; 
enl. Apr. 8, '62; must, in May 15, '62, as Priv. ; tr, to Co, E, Aug, 6, 
'02; app. Corp,; wd. Sept, 30, '64, Poplar Springs Church, Va. ; 
disch. May 14, '65, tm. ex. P. O. ad., Salmon Falls. 

McDowell, Robert, b. Quebec, Can.; age 22; res. Manchester; enl, 
Ai)r. 25, "62; must, in May 15, '62, as Priv,; tr. to Co. E, Aug. 6, 
'62; des. June 4, '63, Nicholasville, Ky, 



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Norris, Cyrus B. b. Upper Gilmanton; age 23; res. Manchester; 
enl. Apr. 21, '62; must, in May 15, '62, as Corp.; tr. to Co. E, 
Aug. 6, '62; app. 1 Sergt. ; discli. May 14, '65, Alexandria, Va., 
tm. ex. P. O. ad., Belmont. See State Service. 

Ober, Evert, b. Johnson, Vt. ; age 25; res. New Boston; enl. Apr. 1, 
'62; must, in May 15, '62, as Priv.; tr. to Co. E, Aug. 6, '62; disch. 
disab. Nov. 21, '62, Baltimore, Md. See State Service. 

0'E.eilly, Francis, b. Canterbury; age 23; res. Canterbury; enl. 
Apr. 17, '62; must, in May 15, '62, as Priv.; tr. to Co. E, Aug. 6, 
'62; app. Corp. Aug. 6, '62; captd. May 12, '64, Spottsylvania, Va.; 
released; disch. May 30, '65, Baltimore, Md., tm. ex. See State 
Service. 

Parsons, Eugene E. b. Chelsea, Mass.; age 18; res. Lowell, Mass.; 
enl. Apr. 15, '62; must, in May 15, '62, as Priv.; tr. to Co. E, Aug. 
6, '62; to Co. K, 22 V. E. C, May 16, '64. Died Jan. 2.3, '65, 
Lowell, Mass. 

Paul, Moses N. b. Eliot, Me.; age 21; res. Eliot, Me.; enl. May 15, 
'62; must, in May 15, '62, as Priv.; tr. to Co. E, Aug. 6, '62; wd. 
Sept. 14, '62, South Mountain, Md. ; disch. disab. Dec. 15, '63, 
Ft. Schuyler, N. Y. P. O. ad., Eliot, Me, 

Perham, Rodney, b. Lyndeborough ; age 27; res. Wilton; enl. Apr. 
1, '62; must, in May 15, '62, as Corp.; tr. to Co. E, Aug. 6, '62; app. 
Sergt. Aug. 6, '62; wd. May 12, '64, Spottsylvania, Va. ; disch. May 
15, '65, Concord, tm. ex. P. O. ad., Wilton. See State Service. 

Provencher, Joseph E. b. Chambly, Can.; age 20; res. Manches- 
ter; enl. Apr. 19, '62; must, in May 15, '62, as Priv.; tr. to Co. E, 
Aug. 6, '62; wd. June 1, '64, Totopotomoy, Va. ; sent to regt. Feb. 
'28, '65, from McC ellan Gen. Hosp., Philadelphia, Pa. N. f. r. 
A. G. O. 

Rand, Francis W. b. Eye; age 22; res. Eye; enl. Mar. 27, '62; 
must, in May 15, '62, as Priv.; tr. to Co. E, Aug. 6, '62. Died, 
dis. Jan. 20, '64, Camp Nelson, Ky. 

Roberts, Charles C. b. Somersworth; age 21; res. Eollinsford; 
enl. May 5, '62; must, in May 15, '62, as Priv.; tr. to Co. E, Aug. 
6, '62; wd. May 18, '64, Spottsylvania, Va.; Sept. 30, '64, Poplar 
Springs Church, Va. ; disch. disab. May 29, '65, Manchester. P. O. 
ad., Walnut, Iowa. 

Roberts, Daniel B. b. Lowell, Mass.; age 23; res. Dunbarton; 
enl. Apr. 19, '62; must, in May 15, '62, as Priv.; tr. to Co. E, Aug. 
6, '62; des. June 16, '64, near Petersburg, Va. ; gd. from des. Jan. 
3, '65; dishon. disch. by sentence G. C. M., Mar. 18, '65, Hancock 
Station, Va. P. O. ad., Laconia. 



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Robinson, John W. b. Stratham; age 34; res. Somersworth ; enl. 
Ai>r. 1, '<>2; must, in May 15, "02, as Corp.; tr. to Co. E, Aug. 6, 
'62; discli. disab. May 31, '65, Concord. Died Apr. 14, '93, Haver- 
hill, Mass. See State Service. 

Rowell, Joseph S. b. Chester; age 25; res. Chester; enl. Apr. 23, 
"(jii; must, in May 15, '62, as Priv. ; tr. to Co. E., Aug. 6, '62; wd. 
Dec. 13, '62, Fredericksburg, Va.; disch. disab. Feb. 17, '63, 
Washington, D. C. Supposed identical with Joseph S. Rowell, 1 
Co.. N. H. H. Art. 

Sargent, Henry O. b. Concord; age 23; res. Manchester; enl. Apr. 
1, '62; must, in May 15, '62, as Sergt. ; tr. to Co. E, Aug. 6, '62; 
app. 1 Sergt.; 2 Lt. Co. A, Mar. 1, '63; disch. disab. Dec. 23, '63. 
Died, Apr. 24, '94, Wilton. See State Service. 

Seaver, Thomas B. b. Scarborough. Me.; age 43; res. Scarbor- 
ough, Me. ; enl. Apr. 28, '62; must, in May 15, '62, as Priv.; tr. to 
Co. E, Aug. 6, '62; disch. Aug. 22, '62, Concord. See 2 N. H. V. 
and V. R. C. 

Shepherd, Enoch O. b. Amherst; age 22; res. Amherst; enl, Apr. 
21, '('>•!; must, in May 15, '62, as Priv.; tr. to Co. E, Aug. 6, 
'62; killed Dec. 13, '62, Fredericksburg, Va. 

Simpson, Henry H. b. York, Me. ; age 21 ; res. York, Me. ; enl. Apr. 
14, '62; must, in May 15, '62, as Priv. ; tr. to Co. E, Aug. 6, '62 ; wd. 
Sept. 14, '62, South Mountain, Md. ; disch. disab. Oct. 23, '62, Ft. 
Wood, N. Y. H. See State Service. 

Skillings, William L. b. Waterford, Me. ; age 18; res. Waterford, 
Me. ; enl. Apr. 17, '62; must, in May 15, '62, as Priv.; tr. to Co. E, 
Aug. 6, '62; to Co. B, Aug. '62; mis. Dec. 13, '62, Fredericksburg, 
Ya. ; gd. from mis. ; app. Sergt.; mis. Sept. 30. '64. Poplar Springs 
Ciiurcli, Va. ; gd. from mis.; disch. May 15, '65, Concord, tm. ex. 

Spaulding, Daniel, b. Warner; age 39; res. Newport: enl. May 6, 
'62; must, in May 15, '62, as Priv.; tr. to Co. E, Aug. 6, '62; disch. 
May 14, '65, Alexandria, Va., tm. ex. 

Stevens, Anthony C. b. Stoddard; age 18; res. Stoddard; enl. 
Apr. 23, '62; must, in May 15, '62, as Priv.; tr. to Co. E, Aug. 6, 
'62; killed Dec. 13, '62, Fredericksburg, Va. 

Stevens, Charles S. b. Stoddard; age 24; res. Stoddard; enl. Apr. 
17, '62; must, in May 15, '62, as Priv. ; tr. to Co. E, Aug. 6, '62; 
app. Corp. Aug. 6, '62; captd. May 12, '64, Spottsylvania, Va. ; 
gd. fr. capture ; app. Sergt. ; disch. May 14, '65, Alexandria, Va.> 
tm. ex. P. O. ad., Manchester. 

Stewart, Jonathan S. b. Wilmington, Mass.; age 21; res. Holder- 
ness; enl. Apr. 1, '62; must, in May 15, '62, as Priv.; tr. to Co. E, 
Aug. 6, '62; app. Corp. Aug. 6, '62; app. Sergt.; wd. July 30, '64, 



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Mine Explosion, Petersburg, Va. ; disch. May 14, '65, Alexandria, 
Va., tm. ex. P. O. ad. Nat. Home, Wis. See State Service. 

Thompson, "William B. b. New York city; age 21; res. Somers- 
worth; enl. Apr. 15, '62; must, in May 15, '62, as Priv. ; tr. to Co. 
E, Aug. 6, '62; killed May 12, '64, Spottsylvania, Va. 

Whitney, Charles S. b. Boscawen; age 18; res. Boscawen; enl. 
May 15, '62 ; must, in May 15, '62, as Priv. ; tr. to Co. E, Aug. 6, 
'62; des. to the enemy May 4, '64, Bristow Station, Va. 

Worster, Isaac, b. Lebanon, Me. ; age 18; res. Somersworth; enl. 
Apr. 15, '62; must, in May 15, '62, as Priv.; tr. to Co. E, Aug. 6, 
'62; captd. May 12, '64, Spottsylvania, Va. ; released Feb. 28, '65; 
discli. June 6, '65, Concord, tm. ex. 

Worster, Reuben, b. Lebanon, Me.; age 23; res. Somersworth; 
enl. Apr. 15, '62; must, in May 15, '62, as Priv.; tr. to Co. E, Aug, 
6, '62; disch. disab. Mar, 13, '63, Providence, R. L P. 0, ad., 
Portsmouth. 

LAFAYETTE ARTILLERY. 

Hamblett, Judson A. b. Milford; age 21; res. Milford, cred. Mil- 
ford; enl. Aug, 1, '64; must, in Aug. 1, '64, as Priv,; must, out 
Sept. 23, '64. P. O. ad., Nashua. See 8 N. IL V. 

VETERAN RESERVE CORPS. 

Chase, Wallace M. Co, D, 13 Eegt.; b, Vermont; age "19": 
cred. Barnstead; enl. Jan. 19, '64; must, in Jan, 19, '64, as Priv. 
Died, dis, Jan. 5, '65, Portland, Me. 

Currier, Andrew. 243 Co., 1 Batt'l; b, Newton; age 20; cred. 
Manchester; enl. Aug. 24, '64; must, in Aug. 24, '64, as Priv.; 
tr, to Co, A, 9 V. R, C. ; disch. Nov. 16, '65, Washington, D. C. 
P. O. ad., Newton, Mass. 

Cutler, George W. Co. E, 3 Regt. ; b. Boston, Mass. ; age 24; cred, 
Bedford; enl. Nov, 28, '63; must, in Nov, 28, '63, as Priv,; disch. 
disab. Feb. 2, '65, Washington, D. C. See 6 N. H. V. 

Davis, Albert H. Co. D, 24 Regt.; b. Lebanon; age 27; cred. 
Springfield; enl. Sept. 6, '64; must, in Sept. 6, '64, as Priv.; disch. 
disab. Aug. 4, '65, Washington, D. C. P. O. ad., Lakeport. 

Glidden, Charles W. 82 Co., 2 Batt'l; b, Grafton; age "18"; 
cred. Rumney; enl. Aug. 12, '63; must, in Aug. 12, '6:5, as Priv.; 
disch. disab. (wd, prior service) Sept. 22, '64, Alexandria, Va. 

Golden, Calvin. Co. K, 24 Regt. ; b. Sanbornton; age "46"; cred. 
Hill; enl. Sept. 6, '64; must, in Sept. 6, '64, as Priv. ; disch. disab. 
Jan, 1, '65, Washington, D, C, P. O. ad., Bristol. 



I30 Service of Members in 

Howard, Clarence. Co. B, 13 Regt.; h. Rochester; age "18'"; 
did. Kocht'ster; enl. Dec. 29, '63; must, in Dec. 29, '63, as Priv. ; 
discli. Nov. 1.5, '65, Boston, Mass. P. O. ad., Rochester. 

Humphrey, John H. Co. A, 24 Regt.; b. Benson, Vt. ; age 27; 
cred. Coinisli; enl. Aug. 31, '64; must, in Aug. 31, '64, as Priv.; 
app. Com. Sergt. to date .July 1, '65; disch. Nov, 14, '65, Washing- 
ton, D. C. P. O. ad., Windsor, Vt. 

JoUey, Joseph. 75 Co., 2 Batt'l; b. Champlain, N. Y. ; age "34" ; 
cred. Keene; enl. Dec. 11, '63; must, in Dec. 11, '6-3, as Priv.; 
(lisch. disab. Oct. 21, '64, Concord. P. O. ad., Keene. 

Judd, Thomas G. Co. E, 3 Regt. ; b. Stafford, Vt. ; age 42; cred. 
MaiKliester; enl. Aug. 19, '64: must, in Aug. 19, '64, as Priv.; 
disch. Nov. 20, '65, Augusta, Me. 

Lathe, Hiram S. Co. B, 18 Regt.; b. Coventry, Vt. ; age 21; cred. 
Decriug; enl. Aug. 12, '64; must, in Aug. 12, '64, as Priv.; dishon. 
disch. June 24, '76, to date Aug. 13, '65, by Commanding General 
Military Division of the Atlantic. P. O. ad., Lynn, Mass. 

Rugg, John H. Co. E, 3 Regt. ; b. Hinsdale; age 43; cred. Clare- 
mont; enl. Feb. 18, '65; must, in Feb. 18, '65, as Priv.; disch. 
disab. Sept. 10, '65, Augusta, Me. P. O. ad., Claremont. 

Seaver, Thomas B. Co. B, 13 Regt.; b. Scarborough; age 43; 
cifd. Conway; enl. Sept. 25, '63; must, in Sept. 25, '63, as Priv.; 
tr. to 187 Co., 1 Batt'l, V. R. C, Jan. 16, "64; to Co. D, 9 V. R. C, 
Sept. 28, '65; disch. Nov. 18, '65, Washington, D. C. Died Aug. 
11, '83, Nat. Home, Togus, Me. See 2 N. H. V. and Unattached 
Co., N. H. V. 

Severance, Benjamin. Unas'd; b. Kingston; age "40"; cred. 
Concord; enl. Aug. 9, '64; must, in Aug. 9, '64, as Priv.; disch. 
disab. Oct. 24, '65, Washington, D. C. 

Sullivan, Michael. 69 Co., 2 Batt'l; b. Ireland; age 44; cred. Con- 
way; enl. Aug. 20, '63; must, in Aug. 20, '63; tr. to 39 Co., 2 
Batt'l, V. R. C. ; disch. disab. July 24, '65, Washington, D. C. 

Tennant, Matthew P. Co. F, 13 Regt.; b. Merrimack; age 20; 
cied. Fvuninoy ; enl. Aug. 27, '63; must, in Aug. 27, '63, as Priv. ; 
assigned to Co. F, 13 V. R. C, Nov., '63; disch. Nov. 13, '65, Con- 
cord. Died Feb. 6, '86, Goffstown. 

Thompson, John. Unas'd; b. Dublin, Jr.; age "19"; cred. Roch- 
ester; enl. Dec. 29, '63; must, in Dec. 29, '63, as Priv.; disch. Nov. 
15, "65, Boston, Mass. 

Towle, Frank Patrick. Unas'd; b. Charlestown, Mass.; age 19; 

cic'd. Baiiiiigton; enl. Dec. 29, '63; must, in Dec. 29, '63, as Priv. ; 

disch. Nov. 17, '65, Galloup's Isl., B. H., Mass. Died May, '90, 
Augusta, Me. 






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Vallely, John. Co. B, 13 Regt. ; b. Ireland ; age "45"; cred. Mad- 
bury; enl. Dec. 22, '63; must, in Dec. 22, '63, as Priv. ; disch. 
disab. Nov. 28, '64, Boston, Mass. 

Walker, Martin L. Co. A, 9 Regt,; b. Boscawen; age 39; cred. 
Sutton; enl. Sept. 3, '64; must, in Sept. 3, '64, as Pz'iv. ; disch. 
Nov. 16, '65, Washington, D. C. Died April 1, '92. 

Weeks, John S. Co. E, 13 Regt.; b. Exeter; age "50" ; cred. Som- 
ersworth; enl. Dec. 29, '63; must, in Dec. 29, '63, as Priv.; disch. 
disab. Sept. 5, '64. P. O. ad., South Newmarket (Nevvflelds). 

Wells, Milo E. Co. D, 13 Regt.; b. Littleton; age 25; res. Little- 
ton, cred. Roxbury, Mass.; enl. June 21, '64; must, in June 21, 
'64, as Priv.; disch. Nov. 30, '6.5. P. O. ad., Monroe. See 4 N. 
H. V. 

Wescott, Gustine M. 69 Co., 2 Batt'l; b. Danbury; age 30; cred. 
Rumney; enl. Jan. 1, '64; must, in Jan. 1, '64, as Priv.; des. Dec. 
15, '64, Manchester. P. O. ad., Rumney. 

U. S. COLORED TROOPS. 

Chisholm, Thomas Melville. Co. K, 108 Inf. ; b. Boston, Mass. ; 
res. Milton; must, in June 22, '64, as 2 Lt. ; must, as 1 Lt. Oct. 1, 
'65; must, out Mar. 21, '66. See Unattached Co., N. H. Y., and 
State Service. 

Quimby, H. Baxter. 108 Inf.; b. Lisbon; age 25; res. Lisbon; 
app. 2 Lt. ; must, in Sept. 20, '65; must, out Mar. 21, '66. See Mis- 
cell. Organizations. 

Whitfield, Smith A. F. and S. 123 Inf.; b. Francestown; age 23; 
res. Francestown; app. Lt. Col.; must, in Oct. 15, '64; must, out 
Oct. 16, '65. Died Dec. 2, '95, Chicago, 111. See 2 N. H. V. 

MISCELLANEOUS ORGANIZATIONS. 

Bennett, Alden B. Co. B, 39 Mass. Inf. ; b. Dunstable, Mass. ; age 
44; res. Milford; enl. for 3 yrs. ; must, in June 10, '63, as Muse; 
tr. to Co. M, 32 Mass. Inf., June 2, '65; disch. July 1, '65. Died 
May 15, '91. See 1 N. H. V. and State Service. 

Buswell, Daniel C. Co. B, 1 Minn. Inf.; b. Lebanon; age 25; res. 
Lebanon; enl. Apr. 29, '61, for 3 yrs.; must, in May 29, '61, as 
Priv.; disch. Aug. 31, '62, to accept promotion. 

Currier, Julius C. Co. D, 17 Mass. Inf.; b. Newton; age "24"; 
res. Newton; enl. Apr. 27, '61, for 3 yrs. ; must, in July 22, '61, as 
Priv. ; des. Aug. 13, '61. See 3 N. H. V. 

Gibson, George W. Co. C, 4 Vt. Inf. ; b. Petersham, Mass. ; age 
21; res. Charlestown, cred. "Vt. ; enl. Aug. 22, '61, for 3 yrs. ; must. 



132 Service of Members in 

in Sept. 21, T)l, as Triv. ; w<l. and captd. June 29, '62, Savage's 
Station, Va.; par. July 22, '62; discli. wds. Sept. 30, '62, Balti- 
more, Md. Supposed identical with George W. Gibson, Co. G, 
!)X. ir. V. 

Hale, Thomas. Co. A, 31 Me. Inf.; b. Xewbury, Mass.; age 56; 
res. Lacouia; enl. Feb. 16, '64, for 3 yrs. ; must, in Mar. 3, '64, as 
Priv. ; must, out July 15, '65, Alexandria, Va. Died Dec. 6, '80, 
Laconia. See 4 N. H. V., Unattached Co., X. H. Y,, and State 
Service. 

Hobson, Edgar James. Band, 14 Mass. Inf.; b. Pennsylvania; age 
27; res. IJrookliue; enl. July 5, '61, for 3 yrs.; must, in July 5, '61, 
as Muse; disch. Aug, 14, '62. P. O. ad.. Concord. 

Quimby, H. Baxter. 39 Inf., U. S, A.; b. Lisbon; age 26; res. 
Lisbon; app. 2 Lt. July 28, '66; 1 Lt. July 31, '67; tr. to 25 Inf. 
Apr. 20, '69; app. Capt. Dec. 31, '80. Died Feb. 19, '83, Ft. Snell- 
ing, Minn. See U. S. C. T, 

Rolfe, Horace H. Co. H, 8 Me. Inf. ; b. Concord; age 27; res. Con- 
cord; enl. Aug. 12, '61, for 3 yi's; must, in Sept. 7, '61, as 1 Sergt. ; 
app. 2 Lt. Dec. 24, '61; resigned, disab. May 23, '6-'; must, in Oct, 
5, '63, as Sergt. Co. E, 2 Mass. H, Art. ; tr. to U. S. Navy May 17, '64, 
as a Seaman; served on U. S. S. "Agawam" and "Osceola"; 
disci). Nov. 18, '64. See 18 N. H. V. 

Smith, Dexter D. Co. B, 6 Inf., Mass. Vol. Militia; b. Frances- 
town; age 37; res. New Hampshire; enl. for 9 mos. ; must, in 
Sept. 27, '62, as Priv. ; must, out June 3, '63. P. O. ad., Franklin. 

U. S. NAVY. 

Blaisdell, Charles M. b. Somersworth; age 18; enl. Dec. 9, '61, at 
Boston, Mass., for 3 yrs., as a Landsman; served onU. S. S. " Ohio,"' 
" Pursuit" and "North Carolina" ; disch, Feb. 24, '62, from receiv- 
ingship. New York city. P. O. ad., Chicopee, Mass. 

Dinsmore, Sanford. b. Colebrook; age 21; res, Colebrook; enl. 
Jan. 28, "63, for 1 yr., as a Landsman; served on U. S. S. "North 
Carolina," "Colorado," " Geuessce," "Potomac," and "Night- 
ingale;" disch, June 16, '64, from receiving ship, Boston, Mass., 
tni. ex. P. O. ad., Bulwer, Can, 

Foster, Charles E. b. Dover; age "21"; res. Dover; enl, July 3, 
"61, at Portsmouth, for 3 yrs,, as a Seaman; served on U. S. S. 
"North Carolina" ; des. Nov. 4, '61, from liosp., New York city. 

Sampson, John C. b. Dover; age 21 ; res. Rochester; enl. May 
4, '61, at Boston, Mass., for lyr., as a Landsman; served on U. S. S. 
"Ohio," "Bainbridge," and "R. R. Cuyler;" disch. June 19, '62, 
from "R. R. Cuyler," tm. ex. 



Other Organizations. 133 

Twombly, Joseph B. b. Kochester; age 23; cred. Rochester; enl. 
Sept. 1, '64, for 3 yrs., as an Ord. Seaman; sei-ved on U. S. S. 
"Vandalia," "Winona," and "Potomska;" disch., reduction naval 
force, July 17, '65, from receiving ship, Norfolk, Ya. P. O. ad., 
Rochester. 

U. S. MARINE CORPS. 

Webster, Edson H., alias Edwin Webster, b. Chittenden county, 
Vt. ; age 19; res. Nashua; enl. Aug. 22, '59, at Boston, Mass., for 
4 yrs., as Priv. ; served on U. S. S. "Cumberland" and " Mack- 
inaw " ; disch. disab. Sept. 5, '64, Norfolk, Va. P. O. ad., Nashua. 

STATE SERVICE. 

Adams, Sylvanus. Milf ord Volunteers; b. New London; res. Mil- 
ford ; enl. Apr. 25, '61, as Muse; paid to July 12, '61, as of Capt. 
George H. Gillis's Co. P. O. ad., Rumney. 

Austin, Wanton J. Capt. James Davidson's Co.; b. Providence, 
R. I.; age 24; res. Somersworth; enl. July 26, '61, as Priv.; paid 
to May 14, '62. See Unattached Co., N. H. V. 

Avery, Alfred A. Laconla Volunteers; b. Gilford; age "44"; res. 
Laconia; enl. May 3, '61, as Priv. ; disch., old age, May 17, '61. 

Ayer, James C. Granite State Guards; b. Deerfield; age "37"; 
res. Somersworth; enl. Apr. 25, '61, as Priv.; disch. July 12, '61; 
paid as Corp. of Capt. James Davidson's Co., July 13, '61, to Mar. 
31, '62; paid as Sergt. to May 14, '62. P. O. ad., Somersworth, 
See Unattached Co., N. H. V. 

Beard, Cleveland C. Lancaster Volunteers; b. Mason, age 18; res. 
Northumberland ; enl. Apr. 27, '61, as Priv. No further record. 
P. O. ad., Reed's Ferry. 

Bennett, Alden B. Capt. James Davidson's Co.; b. Dunstable; 
age 42; res. Milford; enl. July 30, '61, as Muse; disch., by order 
of Governor, Mar. 10, '62. See 1 N. H, V., and Miscell. Organiza- 
tions. 

Bickf ord, Orion W. Capt. James Davidson's Co.; b. Lebanon, 
Me., age 43; res. Somersworth; enl. Oct. 2, '61, as Priv.; paid to 
May 14, '62. Died June 10, '94, Boston, Mass. See 1 Co., N. H. H. 
Art., and Unattached Co., N. H. V. 

Boudle, John. Lancaster Volunteers; b. England; age 36; res. 
Stark; enl. May 2, '61, as Priv. ; disch. disab. May 15, '61, Ports- 
mouth. 

Burns, Benjamin A. b. Bingham, Me.; age 39; res. Bennington; 
enl. May 1, '61, by Ephraim Weston, as Priv. No further record. 
P. O. ad., West Hopkinton. 



134 Service of Members in 

Chapman, Henry N. Littleton Volunteers; b. Haverhill; age 22; 
ros. llavt'iliill; enl. May 1, '61, as Priv; discb. disab. May 17, '61. 

Chase, George A. b. Newport; age 18; res. Newport; enl. Apr. 
IS, 01, by Ira McL. Barton, as Priv.; served 7 days. P. O. ad., 
Lowell, Mass. See 1 N. H. H. Art. 

Chisholm, Thomas Melville. Granite State Guards ; b. Boston, 
Mass.; age 24; res. Somerswortb; enl. Apr. 29, '61, as Priv. ; disch. 
July 12, '61, as of Capt. George H. Gillis's Co., Ft. Constitution; 
re-enl. July 13, '61, in Capt. James Davidson's Co. ; paid as Sergt. 
to May 14, '62. See Unattached Co., N. H. V., and U. S. C. T. 

Cleaves, George P. Capt. James Davidson's Co.; b. Kennebunk, 
Me.; age 17; res. Somerswortb; enl. July 26, '61, as Priv.; paid 
to May 14, '62. See Unattached Co., N. H. V. 

Drew, George H. Milford Volunteers; b. Methuen, Mass.; res. 
Milford; onl. Apr. 25, '61, as Priv. ; elected Sergt. of Capt. George 
H. Gillis's Co. on or about June 12, '61; disch. July 12, '61. 
P. O. ad., Nashua. 

Finney, William G. Keene Volunteers; b. Whiting, Vt. ; age 19; 
enl. Apr. 29, '61, as Priv. No further record. 

Gilson, Alonzo. Capt. Josiah G. Hadley's Co. ; paid for 2^^ days' 
service at Ft. Constitution between Apr. 29 and May 9, '61. 

Hale, Thomas, b. Newbury, Mass. ; age 53; res. Laconia; enl. May 
4, '61, as Muse; disch. July 12, '61, as of Capt. George H. Gillis's 
Co., Ft. Constitution. See 4 N. H. V., Unattached Co., N. H. V., 
and Miscell. Organizations. 

Hall, Charles F. b. ISIilton; age 18; res. Dover; enl. Apr. 29, '61, 
by George AV. Colbath as Priv. ; re-enl. May 10, '61, for 3 yrs., in 
Dover Vols. ; disch. disab. May 31, '61. P. O. ad., Dover. 

Haradon, Willard N. Manchester Mechanics' Phalanx; b. New 
Boston; age 40; res. Manchester; enl. Apr. 25, '61, as 1 Lt. ; 
elected 1 Lt. Jonathan R. Bagley's Co. on or about June 12, '61; 
paid as 1 Lt. to July 12, '61. 

Hodge, Joseph K. Lancaster Volunteers; b. Lisbon; age 19; res. 
Lancaster; enl. Apr. 29, '61, as Priv. No further record. See 2 
U. S. S. S. 

Hutchinson, Asa S. Manchester Mechanics' Phalanx; b. St. John, 
N. B.; age 26; res. Manchester; enl. Api-. 24, '61, as Priv.; elected 
1 Sergt. of Capt. Jonathan K. Bagley's Co. on or about June 12, '61; 
paid as 1 Sergt. to July 12, '61; enl; as 1 Sergt. in Capt. James 
Davidson's Co. July 13, '61; paid as 1 Sergt. to May 14, '62. See 
Unattached Co., N. H. V. 



Other Organizations. 135 

James, Jabez S. Capt. James Davidson's Co.; b. Seabrook; age 27; 
res. Salisbury, Mass. ; eul. Oct. 7, '61, as Priv. ; paid to May 14, '62. 
See Unattached Co., N". H. V. 

Joy, Charles H. Capt. James Davidson's Co. ; b. Somersworth; age 
19; res. South Berwick, Me. ; enl. Jan. 1, '62, as Priv.; paid to 
May 14, '62. P. O. ad., Mendocino, Cal. See Unattached Co., 
N. H. V. 

Keyser, Scott W. Littleton Volunteers; b. Haverhill; age "21"; 
res. Haverhill; enl. Apr. 22, '61, as Priv. ; disch. disab. May 16, '61, 
Poi'tsmouth. P. O. ad., Haverhill. 

Knight, Charles H. Cheshire Light Guards; b. Keene; age 22; res. 
Keene; enl. Apr. 25, '61, as Priv.; re-enl. May 22, '61, for 3 yrs. No 
further record. P. O. ad., Springfield, Mass. 

Norris, Cyrus B. Capt. James Davidson's Co. ; b. Upper Gilman- 
tou; age 23; res. Manchester; enl. Apr. 21, '62, for 3 yrs. as Corp.; 
paid to May 14, '62. P. O. ad., Belmont. See Unattached Co., 
N. H. V. 

Ober, Evert. Milford Volunteers; b. Johnson,- Vt. ; res. Nev? Bos- 
ton; enl. May 7, '61, as Priv.; disch., by Capt., June 10, '61; re- 
enl. Oct 7, '61, as Priv., in Capt. James Davidson's Co.; paid to 
May 14, '62. See Unattached Co., N. H. V. 

Osgood, Napoleon B. Claremont Volunteers ; b. Porter, Me.; age 
21; res. Charlestown; enl. Apr. 29, '61, as Priv.; re-enl. May 21, 
'61, for 3 yrs.; disch., by Capt., June 11, '61. P. O. ad. Biddeford, 
Me. 

O'Reilly, Francis. Capt. James Davidson's Co.; b. Canterbury; 
■ age 23; res. Canterbury; enl. Apr. 17, '62, for 3 yrs., as Priv.; paid 
to May 14, '62. See Unattached Co., IST. H. V. 

Perham, Rodney. Milford Volunteers; b. Lyndeborough; res. 
AViltou; enl. Apr. 25, '61, as Priv.; disch. July 13, '61, as of Capt. 
George H. Gillis's Co.; paid as Priv. of Capt. James H. David- 
son's Co., Oct. 5, '61, to May 14, '62. P. O. ad., Wilton. See 
Unattached Co., N. H. V. 

Robinson, John W. Capt. James Davidson's Co.; b. Stratham ; 
res. Somersworth; enl. Jan. 1, '62, as Priv.; paid as Priv. to March 
31, '62; paid as Corp. to May 14, '62. See Unattached Co., N. H. V. 

Sargent, Henry O. Capt. James Davidson's Co. ; b. Concord; res. 
Manchester; enl. Aug. 19, '61, as Priv.; app. Sergt. Oct. 5, '61; 
paid to May 14, '62. P. O. ad.. West Wilton. See Unattached Co., 
N. H. V. 

Simpson, Henry H. Capt. James Davidson's Co.; enl. Jan. 1, '62, 
as Priv. ; paid to May 14, '62. See Unattached Co., N. H. V. 



136 Service in Other Organizations. 

Stewart, Jonathan S. Concord Volunteers; b. Wilmington, Mass.; 
age 2U; res. Holderness; enl. Apr, 22, '61, as Priv. ; paid to July 12, 
'61, as of Capt. Jonathan R. Bagley's Co.; re-enl. July 13, '61, as 
Priv. in Capt. James Davidson's Co.; paid to May 14, '62. P. O. 
ad., Nat. Home, Wis. See Unattached Co., N. H. V. 

Wallace, Joseph H. b. Manchester; age 21; res. Manchester; enl. 
Apr. H», 01, by John L. Kelly as Priv.; served 8 days. See 3 
N. H. V. 



GENERAL ORDER 

TRANSFERRING 

MEMBEES OF NINTH EEGIMENT 

TO 

SIXTH REGIMENT, N. H. VET. VOLUNTEERS. 



HEAD-QUARTERS DISTRICT OF ALEXANDRIA AND NINTH 

ARMY CORPS. 

Alexandria, Va., June 1, 1865. 
Special, Orders, No. 31. 

[Extract.] 

1. The followiug named enlisted men, belonging to the Ninth Regi- 
ment, New Hamjishire Volunteers, which organization is about to be 
mustered out of the service, pursuant to instructions from the War 
Department, dated 17th and 18th of May, 1865, promulgated in Par. 2, 
S. O., No, 22, c. s., from these head-quartei-s, and whose terms of ser- 
vice do not exjjire under the provisions of said orders, are hereby 
transferred to the Sixth Regiment, New Hampshire Veteran Volun- 
teers. 

The commanding officer Ninth Regiment, New Hampshire Volun- 
teers, will at once turn over these men to the commanding officer Sixth 
Regiment, New Hampshire Veteran Volunteers, together with the 
proper muster and descriptive rolls, and accounts of pay and clothing, 
as required by Circular No. 64, series of 1864, from the War Depart- 
ment: 

Company A. Privates. 

r, , Bohonan, Charles 

Corporal. „ ' „ , . , 

Bonaparte. Frederick 

Williams, John. Bransman, Anley 

Brown, John 

Musician. Canfield, Stone 

Cawley, Peter 
Dodd, Martin . Conception, Joseph 



138 



General Order Transferring to 



Dolan, James 
Dor way, .John 
Foster, Thomas 
Geany, John 
Heath, Nelson 
Holcomb, Edgar 
Marble, Wm. H. 
Martins, Andrew 
McCaffrey, Samuel 
Muary, James 
O'Donnell, Michael 
Preston, James R, 
Prial, Edward 
Raymond, Wm. 
Rever, Joseph 
Spencer, John 
Woolsley, James 
Williams, Jonas 

COMPAXY B. 

Privates. 

Brindamour, Albert 
Brown, Thomas 
Bartlett, James H. 
Burns, Benj. A. 
Brady, Edward 
Bowman, Thomas 
Coyne, Joseph 
Eaton, George W. 
Fullford, Milo 
Fagan, Michael 
Gregory, John 
Grant, Daniel 
Howland, Richardson 
Hobson, Edgar J. 
Hiltpald, Rudolph 
Hutchinson, Stephen C. 
Page, Nathaniel S. 
Robinson, John 
Vezina, Octave 
Wallace, Wm., 2d 
Ward, Lewis K. 
Waldron, George 
Williams, John 



Company C. 

Privates. 

Bridges, John 
Brown, Orrin E. 
Bowen, Fred 
Davis, Bailey 
Drake, Samuel 
Duchand, John B. 
Foell, Albert 
Fuller, John G. C. 
Hutchinson, Wm. 
Johnson, Charles 
Miller, John 
Perkins, Albert A. 
Rourke, Patrick 
Riley, Michael 
Rider, Henry 
Raymond, Wm. 
Sprague, Wm. 
Tibbetts, Enoch 
Worster, Albanois 
Wichsel, John 
Williams, John 

Company D. 

Corporals. 

Johnson, Henry 
Mclntyre, Wm. C. 
White, Henry 

Privates. 

Allen, John 
Bennett, James A. 
Bennett, James 
Bouchier, Peter 
Bragg, Edwin 
Carr, Richard 
Dodge, Rodney 
Crossen, Frank 
Hill, Henry 
Hagerty, Anthony 
Mahoney, John 



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139 



Mason, Elisha L. 
Nolan, Patrick 
Politz Eeinhold 
Pringle, Charles 
Riley, Thomas 
Smith, McNorman C. 
Valentine, James 

Company E. 

Sergeant. 
Evans, Walter H. 

Corporal. 
Kirwan, Peter 

Privates. 

Allen, Frank 
Basons, Joseph 
Campbell, John 
Campbell, Henry 
Cotter, Wm. 
Cram, Archibald 
Cooper, James M. 
Clark, Theron G. 
Clark, Edgar 
Daniels, Charles J. 
Friday, Mitchell 
Grover, Charles 
Goodwin, Frank R. 
Hamlin, Charles H. 
Limo, Joaquin 
Levielle, Victor 
Mills, George 
Newell, Sylvester A. 
Ordway, S. F. 
Ordway, N. P. 
Papineau, Francis 
Rogers, William 
Saladal, Leon 
Sailes, Reuben 
Thurston, Frank 
Triggs, Benj. 
Vincent, George L. 
Vroomer, John 



Walsh, Patrick 
Walker, Wm. A. 
Webb, Wm. 

Company F. 

Corporal. 

Broun, Wm. 

Musician. 
Clement, Charles E. 

Privates. 

Anderson, Antoine 

Boyden, George W. 

Barnes, James H. 

Brady, Wm. 

Christenson, Jacob 

Clarey, Michael 

Dooley, Thomas 

Dwyer, Bryan 

Foster, James 
Gero, Henry 

Henninger, Zephaniah 
Hogan, Charles 
McKelvie, Alex 
Meyer, Ferdinandt 
Marcotte, Zebbie 
Mill, Joseph G. 
Russell, Wm. 
Shover, John 
Smith, Andrew C. 
Thompson, Francis 
Thompson, Patrick 
Topp, Albert 
Wilson, John 
Wilson, Wm., 1st 
Wilson, Wm., 2d 
Wilson, Andres 

Company G. 

Musician. 
Ritter, Frank S. 



140 



General Order Transferring to 



Privates. 

Antlitz, John 
Augustin, August 
Bresland, Josei)li 
Ballou, Charles E. 
Bright, John 
Cook, Tliomas 
Crowther, Wm. 
Duval, Richard 
Ferguson, John 
Gordon, Francis 
Gibson, George W. 
Heran, Abram 
Loren, Peter 
Louis, Peter 
Ryder, Abram 
Stevens, Thomas 
SiJencer, Thomas 
Smith, Dexter D. 
Shaursny, Henry 
Thompson, Charles 
Thompson, John 
Wilson, Benjamin 

Company H. 

Sergeant. 

Taylor, Alfred 

Musician. 
Wyman, Cliarles C. 

Privates. 

Aliern, Martin 
Bedell, Abram 
Bedell, Austin 
Birch, George 
Brooks, John C. 
Brush, John 
Boyle, William 
Burke, Thomas 
Carter, John 
Carr, George 
Cummings, George 
Clark, Portus B. 



Deerin, Peter 
English, James 
Frate, Carlo 
Fromow, George 
Griggs, Alvin 
Granville, Francis 
Holmes, Ephraim E. 
Hayes, Augustus 
Lindsey, Albert 
Lucas, Harvey H. 
Lapoine, Henry 
Pratt, Alfred C. 
Rogers, Charles E. 
Stillings, Alonzo 
Sullivan, Thomas C. 
Shervrood, William 
Schealala, John 
Taylor, Alfred 
Ure, Daniel 
Varine, Augustus 
Wilkins, William H. 

Company I. 

Privates. 
Allen, George W. 
Becker, Jacob 
Blake, Aaron H. 
Bundy, Alvin A. 
Colburn, Eleazer 
Cram, Albert 
Crouch, Charles E. 
Duprez, Louis 
Ellis, John E. 
Estey, Lyman E. 
French, Stephen S. 
Hall, George 
Johnson, George 
Leonard, Thomas 
Lowe, George 
Lowe, Henry 
Miller, John 
Otto, Gustave 
Schaett'er, Fred 
Smith, Geo. W. 
Sweat, Charles, Jr. 
Wheeler, Albion 
Whittle, James C. 



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141 



Company K. 

Sergeant. 
James, John 

Corporals. 

Gay, Proctor 
Sargent, Frank B. 

Musician. 

Varney, Orin 

Privates, 

Berry, William H. 
Benedict, Mitchel 
Blake, Jonathan 
Bryan, James 
Cram, William H. 
Eagan, William G. 
Gardiner, James 
Gonsalavre, Francis 
Hicks, Calvin 
Johnson, George 



Johnson, Arthur M. 
Kuhlmann, William 
Larey, John 
Leeds, William C. 
Lamare, Joseph 
Lafan, Joseph 
McWoughton, Duncan 
McMurphy, James 
Mendon, George E. 
McGowan, John 
Mills, Oscar A. 
Neson, John 
Olson, Peter 
Osterly, Herman 
Parsons, Flores E. 
Eussell, George 
Koberts, Auguste 
Rorke, Daniel 
Ross, Peter 
Roquet, Peters 
Smith, Peter 
Sullivan, John 
Varney, Edwin C. 
Wesley, John 
Wilson, James H, 
West, Royal F. 



By command of 

Maj, Gen. Jno. G. Parke: 

Jno. D. Bektolette. 

Assistant Adjutant General. 



Official: 



Jno. C. Youngman, 

Assistant Adjutant General. 



REGISTER 



OF 



COIVLMISSIONKD OKKICKRS, 

NINTH REGIMENT. 



COLONELS. 

Fellows, Enoch Q. ; Titus, Herbert B. 

LIEUTENANT-COLONELS. 

Stevens, Josiah, Jr. (not mustered) ; Titus, Herbert B, ; 
Babbitt, John W. ; Chandler, George H. (not mustered). 

MAJORS. 

Titus, Herbert B. ; Everett, George W. ; Chandler, George H. 

ADJUTANTS. 

Cook, William N. ; Chandler, George H. ; Brown, William I. ; 
Robinson, Oscar D. 

QUARTERMASTERS. 

Hutchins, Carletou B. ; Moses, William Pitt. 

SURGEONS. 

AVebster, William A. ; Gibson, Francis N. 

ASSISTANT SURGEONS. 

Emerson, Jobn S. ; (iibson, Francis N. 

CHAPLAIN. 
Gushee, Edward M. 

CAPTAINS. 

Pillsbury, Leonard H., Little, Ludo B., Co. A; Alexander, 
Samuel J., Smith, Orville, Co. B; Quimby, H. Baxter 
(not mustered) ; Edgerly, Augustus S., Copp, Charles D., 



Register of Commissioned Officers. 143 

Co. C; Stevens, Chester C, Hutchinson, Asa T., Co. D; 
Buswell, Daniel C, Robinson, Oscar D., Co. E; Stone, 
Andrew J., Case, Ervin T,, Co. F; Whitfield, Smith A., 
Babb, Edward C, Co. G; Edgerly, Charles W., Blaisdell, 
James, Allen, Benjamin R., Co. H; Babbitt, John W., 
Hough, Andrew J., Co. I; Cooper, John B., Co. K. 

FIRST LIEUTENANTS. 

Pillsbury, William S., Newcomb, Oliver P., Little, Ludo B., 
Emery, George W., Simons, Charles J., Co. A; Hara- 
don, Willard N., Brown, William I., Quimby, H. Baxter, 
Co. B; Tilton, Charles W., Copp, Charles D., Kelly, 
Jerome, Co. C; Hough, Andrew J., Masou, John E., 
Thompson, John, Co. D; Hutchinson, Asa T., Harnden, 
Charles A., Sampson, John C, Robinson, Oscar D., Co. E ; 
Moses, AVilliam Pitt, Sprague, S. Henry, Babb, Edward C, 
Co. F; Smith, Orville, Perry, S. Horace, Hall, Stacy W., 
Co. G; Lewis, John G., Blaisdell, James, Greene, Edwin, 
Co. H ; Green, Jacob, Cheney, David F., Richards, Charles 
J., Co. I; Case, Ervin T., Allen, Benjamin R., Burnham, 
Franklin J., Co. K. 

SECOND LIEUTENANTS. 

Newcomb, Oliver P., Mooney, John, Sargent, Henry O., Drew, 
George H., Co. A; Chisholm, Thomas Melville, Rolfe, 
Horace H., Sampson, John C, Hubbard, Henry E., Co. 
B; Copp, Charles D., Cheney, David F., Co. C; Merrill, 
Albert G., Co. D; Emery, George W., Cos. H and D; 
Donovan, John, Co. D; Edmiuster, James N., Quimby, 
H. Baxter, Robinson, Oscar D., Co. E; Burnham, Frank- 
lin J. (not mustered) ; Mason, John E., Little, Ludo B., 
Wilcox, Charles W., Co. F; Harnden, Charles A., Perry, 
S. Horace, Rice, William D., Co. G; Hall, Stacy W. (not 
mustered) ; Blaisdell, James, Babb, Edward C, Harlow, 
Isaac Leonard, Co. H ; Sawyer, Nelson N., Greene, Edwin, 
Sylvester, George P., Co. I ; Kelly, Jerome (not mustered), 
Brown, William I., Allen, Benjamin R., Co. K; Simons, 
Charles J. (not mustered). 



THE NINTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS 
VETERAN ASSOCIATION. 



On the second day of the first encampment of the New Hamp- 
shire veterans at Manchester, October 13, 1875, the Ninth New 
Hampshire volunteers had representatives in the line as formed 
for review. Lieut. Col. J. W. Babbitt commanded, and Lieut. 
Charles J. Richards acted as adjutant. At the same encamp- 
ment a Regimental association was organized, wath Capt. J. B. 
Cooper president, and Capt. C. D. Copp secretary. The asso- 
ciation thus formed has continued to the present, and now owns, 
in partnership with the Eleventh association, a commodious, 
attractive, and well appointed head-quarters building at The 
"Weirs, erected in 1.S88 at an expense of $2,500. The build- 
ing was dedicated that same year, Hon. Wm. E. Chandler 
delivering the dedicatory address. 

In 1891 the late Lieut. John E. Mason acted as secretary, 
and as such of course had charge of the record book, which, 
after his decease in October of that year, was mislaid, and not- 
withstanding a persistent search by his executor, Hon. Henry 
M. Baker, has never been found. Consequently a complete list 
of the officers of the association cannot now be given, but some 
facts are known and well remembered : 

At the state encampment at The Weirs, August 13-15, 
1878, the veterans of the Ninth met near the "big black 
rock " in the rear of the original camp-ground, and chose 
Maj. George H. Chandler president, and Capt. William Pitt 
Moses secretary. While this meeting was in progress Gen. 
A. E. Burnside passed by, and was heartily greeted by his for- 
mer subordinates and then comrades. In 1884, Capt. C. D. 
Copp was president. In 1885 the following oflicers were 
elected: Col. H. B.Titus, president; Lieut. C. J. Richards, 
vice-president; Lieut. J. E. Mason, secretarj'^ ; Lieut. Col. 
J. W. Babbitt, necrologist; Lieut. J. E. Mason, Capt. C. D. 




a 

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03 
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2: 



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Ninth N. H. V. Veteran Association. 145 

Copp, aud Capt. J. B. Cooper, mouographists. lu 1887 the list 
was, — Lieut. C. W. Wilcox, president; J. F. Foster, vice-presi- 
dent; Lieut. J. E. Mason, secretary; Lieut. Col. J. W. Babbitt, 
necrologist. In 1889, Capt. C. D. Copp was president; Corp. 
L. R. Mayo, vice-president; Capt. J. B. Cooper, treasurer; and 
the Ninth and Eleventh voted to hold a joint celebration of the 
twenty-tifth anniversary of their mustering out. In 1890, Capt. 
E. C. Babb was president, and in 1891, Capt. O. D. Robinson 
was elected to the same office. 

Since 1891 the officers have been, — 

1892 — Rev. N. T. Button, president; A. Paul Home, vice- 
president ; Capt. William Pitt Moses, secretary and treasurer ; 
Dr. G. L. Wakefield, necrologist ; member of executive com- 
mittee for State association, Capt. B. R. Allen. At that meet- 
ing the following resolutions were passed in recognition of the 
unusually efficient services of Dr. George L. Wakefield as the 
association's necrologist : 



^&' 



Whekeas, Our comrade and efficient necrologist, Dr. George L. 
Wakefield, has rendered a most valuable service in collecting and 
tabulating facts pertaining to the deceased members of tlie Ninth 
New Hampshire volunteers, and has presented to this association 
a specially prepared and beautifully bound volume in which it is 
intended to place a complete summary record of every member of 
our dear old regiment, and 

Whereas, The work of inscribing in this book the names of the 
members of the regiment, and the individual records of those deceased, 
so far as ascertained to this date, has been beautifully done by our 
comrade's daughter. Miss Electa Wakefield, therefore. 

Resolved, That the cordial thanks of this association be and hereby 
are tendered to Comrade Wakefield for the painstaking labor per- 
formed and the generous expenditure incurred in its behalf; and also 
to his daughter, Miss Electa, for her careful and laborious work in 
transcribing into this book said names and records. 

Resolved, That Miss Electa Wakefield be adopted as a Daughter of 
the Regiment, and she is hereby invited to meet with this association 
at its annual reunions ; and 

Resolved, That the foregoing be entered in full upon the records of 
the association, and that an engrossed copy thereof be presented to 
Comrade Wakefield, and also to his daughter, Miss Electa Wakefield. 

1893 — A. Paul Home, president ; Dr. G. L. Wakefield, vice- 
president ; Capt. W. P. Moses, secretary and treasurer; Dr. 



146 Ninth N. H. V. Veteran Association. 

G. L. Wakefield, necrologist ; member of executive committee, 
Sergt. U. B. Warreu. 

1894 — Dr. G. L. "Wakefield, president; George J. Allen, vice- 
president; Capt. W. P. Moses, secretary' and treasurer; Dr. 
G. L. Wakefield, necrologist; Corp. L. R. Mayo, member of 
executive committee. 

18!)5 — Henry Clark, president; O. B. Warren, vice-presi- 
dent; W. P. Moses, secretary and necrologist; A. H. Davis, 
janitor; Dr. G. L. Wakefield, surgeon. 



LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 









Facing Page 


Aldrich, James H. ...... . 655 


Aldrich, Corp. Lewis W. 










366 


Allen, George J- • 










• 318 


Ayer, James C. . 










400 


Babb, Capt. Edward C. 










386 


Babbitt, Lieut. Col. John W. 










234 


1 Barnard, George W. 










684 


Blaisdell, Charles M. . 










130 


Blaisdell, Capt. James . 










34 


Bloody Envelope 










472 


1 Bohonnan, Charles 










730 


Boothby, Henry J. 










666 


Bragg, Corp. Elmer 










64 


Brocklebank, Corp. Lewis . 










64 


Brown, Adjt. William L 










434 


Bundy, Alvin A. . 










272 


Burnham, Lieut. Franklin J. 










672 


Burnside, Gen. Ambrose B. 










44 


Chamberlain, N. Bryon 










336 


Chandler, Maj. George H. . 










374 


Chapman, Sergt. Joseph C. . 










640 


Cheney, Lieut. David F. 










510 


Clark, Henry W 










678 


Colburn, James L. 










96 


Colors of the Ninth Regiment, N. 


H. V 


, . 






560 


Connor, Lendell A. . . . 










96 


Cooper, Capt. John B. 










532 


Copp, Capt. CD. 










196 


Copp, Lieut. CD. 










196 


Currier, Andrew . 










684 


Gushing, Nathan 










400 


Darling, Corp. L. Dwight 










528 


Davis, Albert H. ... 










608 


Davis, Albert P 










176 


Davis, Corp. Charles B. 










40 


Dodge, Sergt. George H. 










640 


Dutton, Sergt. Major Newell T. . 










455 



148 



List of Illustrations. 



Edf^erly, Capt. Charles W. . 

Ellis, Corp. Minot 

Ellis, John E. . . . 

Fellows, Col. Enoch Q. 
Fletcher, Almon J. 
Foster, Edwin F. 
Foster, J. Frank . 

Gray, Benjamin 

Griffin, Gen. S. G. 

Gushee, Chaplain Edward M. 



Hale, Harry (Orin Varney) . 
Hall, Sergt. John R. . 
Hall, William J. . 
Hanson, Com. Sergt. Howard M 
Hartwell, Sergt. William H. 

Headquarters Ninth Regiment, N. H. V., at the Weirs 

Appendix 
Heath, Sergt. Webster 
Hill, Quartermaster Sergt. Charles P. 
Hill, Hospital Steward Sylvester J. 
Home, Corp. Augustus P. 
Hough, Capt. Andrew J. 
Hurlbutt, Corp. Charles O. 
Huntoon, Phineas R. . 
Hurd, D. Emerson 
Hutchins, Quartermaster Carleton B. 



Kennard, Frank H. 
Kidder, Roscoe B. 
Kimball, James B. 
Knight, Corp. Charles H. 

Lang, Charles 
Lathe, Sergt. James W. 
Lathrop, Corp. Edward D. 
Lavender, Corp. William J. 
Leighton, Byron D. 
Little, Sergt. Charles H, 
Little, Capt. Ludo B. . 

Mason, Lieut. John E. 
Mason, Simeon A. 
Matthews, Corp. James H, 



34 
304 

304 

Frontispiece 
640 
608 
288 



400 

340 
18 

592 
600 
52S 

455' 730 
228 

144 

480 

730 

455 
620 

496 
64 

196 
96 

153 

666 

254 
684 

272 

40 

666 

34 
192 
600 
7 10 

196 

272 

33^ 



List of Illustrations. 



149 



Mayo, uorp. Lysander K. . . . . . 


400 


McGarrett, Sergt. William A 


426 


Messenger, Edward M. . ' . 


228 


Morton, George W. ..... . 


254 


Moses, Quartermaster William Pitt 


352 


Nagle, Gen. James ...... 


724 


Non-Commissioned Staff, Ninth Regiment, N. H. V. 


455 


Norris, Corp. Cyrus B. ..... 


546 


Osgood, Napoleon B. . 


416 


Paige, Enoch C. ...... . 


160 


Partridge, Sergt. Henry F. . 


. 318 


Parke, Gen. J. G 


548 


Perry, Lieut. S. Horace ..... 


208 


Perry, William H 


176 


Philips, Minot R. 


288 


Pierce, Joseph W. ...... 


288 


Pillsbury, Capt. Leonard H. .... 


730 


Pillsbury, Lieut. William S. . 


576 


Prendable, Color-Bearer James .... 


254 


Priest, Thomas J. ...... 


192 


Quimby, Capt. H. Baxter ..... 


472, 732 


Old Shoes of 


472 


Reno, Gen. J. L. ...... 


60 


Robbins, William B 


416 


Robinson, Capt. Oscar D. . 


T14 


Ross, William W 


304 


Rugg, Quartermaster Sergeant Charles E. 


228, 455 


Runnals, Sergt. John R. . . . . . 


600 


Sampson, Lieut. John C. . . . . . 


608 


Sargent, Henry 0. ..... . 


608 


Sawyer, Andrew J. ..... . 


176 


Scott, Josiah . ...... 


192 


Shepard, A. Warner, M. D 


736 


Slyfield, James ....... 


■ 528 


Smith, Capt. Orville ...... 


366 


Sprague, Lieut. S. Henry ..... 


40 


Stone Bridge, Antietam Creek, i860 


T03 


Stone, Capt. Andrew J. ..... 


388 


Stearns, Sergt. Albert B. . . . . . 


64 



ISO 



List of Illustrations. 



Stevens, Sergt. Charles S. 
Streeter, Corp. Edwin H. 

Taft, Corp. Albert H. . 
Titus, Col. Herbert B. . 
Thurber, Hiram . 
Towne, Samuel C. 
Turner, Corp. Frederick F. 

Underbill, Charles W. . 

Varney, Orin. 

Wakefield, Sergt. George L. 
Warren, Sergt. Osmon B. 
Webster, Jason K. 
Webster, John P. 
Webster, Surgeon William A 
Weeks, George 
Willson, Corp. George C. 
Wheeler, Corp. Albert R. 
White. James E. . 
Whitfield, Capt. Smith A. 
Whittle, James C. 
-Wiley, Edgar F. . 
Wilcox, Lieut. Charles W. 
Wood, Corp. Marshall P. 



402 
192 

• . .738 
Frontispiece. 

416 

. . 96 

472 

254 
See Harrv Hale. 



78 

34 
640 
416 
1 10 
666 

318 

288 

528 

752 

304 
272 
562 
318 



Young, Sergt. Alvin A, . 



76 



GENERAL INDEX. 



Page. 

Abbott, General "^oy 

Abbott, Ira S H, 151 

Abbott, Jacob ^4 

Abbott, Orrin S 236 

Adams, Sylvanus 12,643,645,720 

Aiken, William C "3 

Aldrich, James H 112,655,656^ 

Aldrich, Jethro 655 

Aldrich, Lewis W 83, 84 

Aldrich, Lewis W., 2d "3 

Aldrich, Mehetabel (Moody) 655 

Alexander, Morrison ....•••••• '4> 235 

Alexander, S. Judson ^^ 

13, 14, 45, 49. 245-246, 252-253, 297, 302, 303, 345, 655, 65^657 

Allard, Colonel ^98 

Allen, Addie Florence "58 

Allen, Benjamin R 16, 334. 348, 526, 547, 657-658 

Allen, Carrie (Martin) 658 

Allen, Colonel • . . 247 

Allen, D. W 652 

Allen, Dora A 658 

Allen, Fred J ^SS 

Allen, George J 318,439-442 

Allen, Mary Blanche 658 

Allen, Mary H. (Gilmore) . 658 

Allen, Minnie Myrtle 658 

Allen, Paymaster W. H. H 556 

Ammen, General 49 

Andrews, George H 643, 644, 649, 650 

Annis, Joel N "3 

Antietam 5 

Applebee, William H ^4 

Archer, Josiah L. ^35 

Armstrong, George T 720 

Arthur, President "49. 754 

Atwood, Naranus '5 

Austin, Thomas S. . . • " '^ 



152 



General Index. 



Avery, James 235 

Ayer, James C 15,658-659 

Ayers, Elisha 15. ^S' 



. 17, 42, 
;20, 222, 223, 225, 239, 
77, 203, 215, 231, 235, 



Babb, Edward C. 

385, 388, 435-436. 438-439. 469-470, 472. 479. 495. 

Babl), Mary (Winslow) 

Babbitt, John W 

14, 130, 131, 173. 179. 199. 222, 233-234, 236, 237, 

313. 316, 330, 342, 351. 375. 381, 434, 472, 474, 494, 

Bailey, Capt. Edward L 

Bailey, John B 57, 

Baltimore Light Artillery 

Band, Regimental and Brigade . 

119, 135, 146, 216, 217, 218, 2 
Barber, George W. 145, 16S, 176, i 
Barker, Capt. T. A. 
Barnard, Daniel L. 
Barnes, James H. 
Barton, Lieutenant 
Batchelder, Charles W 
Batchelder, Joseph C. 
Baxter, General . 
Bean, Amos S. . 
Bean, Jesse S. 
Beard, Leonard M. 
Belcher, Lieutenant 
Benham, General 
Benjamin's Battery 
Bennett, Alden B. 
Bennett, J. C. 
Berry, Governor . 
Bingham, Charles F. 
Bissell, Albert E. 
Blackmar, Charles E. 
Blaisdell, Charles H. 
Blaisdell, Charles M. 
Blaisdell, Charley 
Blaisdell, James . 
Blaisdell, Mary H. (Starr) 
Bliss, Colonel 
Blood, George F. 
IMood, Henry P. . 
Blood, Joel S. 
" Bloody Ninth " 
Bloss, John M. . 
Bohonan, Charles 
Boothby, Henry J. 



15 
547, 563, 660-661 

660 

13 
244, 258, 276, 297 
563, 661-663, 756 

752 
146, 643-654, 651 

452 
57, 58, 85, no 

273, 307. 643-654 
240, 241, 251, 640 

739 
318 

504-505 
567 

15 
112, 123 

568 

313 

14,235 

235 

605 

6q6 

71, 269 

12, 663-664 

643, 644, 651 

• 17.731 

658 

. 318 

15 

15 

664-665 

52 

287. 435, 472 

665 

198, 548 

235 

386-387 

. 16, 84 

81 

64 

649, 651 

15, 112, 616 



General Index. i53 

T, T 1 A . . 602 

Bowen, John A -,,6 6 

Bovvers, Lieutenant-Colonel --3' 4 

Bowman, Colonel 

Boyle, General 3i7. 353 

Bradford, Amos F "3 

Bradford, Caleb M "3 

Bradford, Captain "3 

Bradford, Ex-Governor 573 

Bradford, Joseph D • ^^ 

Bragg, Elmer 15, US- 3M, 398-399, 633. 666-667 

Bright, John ^ 

Brocklebank, Belle (Wilbur) °°7 

Brocklebank, Daniel ''' 

Brocklebank, Lewis ' 

Brocklebank. Lois D. (Heath) 667 

Brown, Abram "';; 

7 W 
Brown, Alba 6 _ fi« 

Brown, Captain S 

Brown, Colonel ^ 

Brown, Colonel ^ ' 

Brown, Deborah (Ide) 7 

Brown, Dr. Joel ^^ 

Brown, George B ^35 

Brown, George H 

Brown, James F. -•" 

Brown, John -^-^ 

Brown, John S 

Brown, William Ide ■ ^'^ 

393, 427, 434-435, 472-473, 474-475, 493-495, 552, 667-671, 717 

Bruce, George O I5', 707 

Buchanan, President 3 

Buck, "Dr. William 749 

Buckman, John B '°' -55 

Buffum, James, 2d ^^ 

Bugbee, Henry C 35 

Burbank, Lieutenant 399 

Burleigh, Charles ^^ 

Burnham, Amelia (Whitman) 7i 

Burnh am, Franklin J ^^ 

143, 145, 212, 227, 335, 336, 354-355, 390-397, 428 

451, 459-464, 479-480, 490-493, 516-517, 5297531, 547, 635, 671-675 

Burnham, Harriet F. (Laughton) 675 

671 
'Burnham, James 

Burnside, General ... 43, 44, 47, 48, 61, 69, 71, 76,103 
104, 108, 109, 132, 134, 149, 150, 165. 181-192, 198, 255-257, 259, 276 
357, 340, 342, 358, 364, 426, 427, 448, 450, 482-490, 496, 499, 646, 695 

Buswell, Barclay C ' J^ 

Buswell, Daniel C 13, 14,335,434,454,463-475,685 



154 



General Index. 



Butler, General . 
Butler, Wentworth 

Calder, William . 
Caldwell, Francis M. . 
Caldwell, Leonard H. 
Camp Burnside . 
Camp Chase 
Camp Colby 
Camp Dick Robinson . 
Camp Ella Bishop 
Camp Nelson 
Camp Parole 
Campbell, Duncan 
Canfield, William H. . 
"Carleton" (C. C. Coffin) 
Carpenter, Hamilton . 
Carroll, Jeremiah 
Carruth, Lieutenant-Colonel 
Case, Ervin T. 
Casey, General . 
Casler, Capt. B. G. 
Chace, Moses L. 
Chamberlain, Noel B, 
Chamberlin, Charles 
Chandler, Elvira S. (Coffin) 
Chandler, George H. . 

12, 17, 35. 
297-298, 316, 342, 353, 

478. 493-495' 537. 547" 
Chandler, Isaac H. 
Chandler, John K. 
Chandler, Kate . 
Chandler, Lieut. G. W 
Chandler, Mary A. 
Chandler, Nathan S. 
Chandler, Timothy 
Chandler, William E. 
Chapman, Dr. G. T. 
Chapman, Edward P. 
Chapman, Joseph C. 
Chapman, Waterman 
Chase, Aaron 
Chase, George A. 
Chase, Herbert G. 
Chase, Joseph H. 
Chase, Lieut. H. R. 
Chase, Lucian H. 



474. 549. 586 

14. 435 

481 

14 
, 14, 23s, 271 

33. 348, 349. 351. 352. 355 

. 21, 22, 28, 33, 51 

8, 12, 19, 51, 643 

277, 278, 322 

270 

321 

340 

430 

15,464, 469 

461 

460, 473 
23s 

"4, 337 
14, 348, 381, 434. 470, 506, 710-71 1, 716 

.20, 21 
574, 584, 588 

15 
280 

151 

677 
10 

37, 45, 46, 151, 152, 153, 236, 258, 269, 276 
372, 374. 378, 380-381, 399. 434-435. 469-475 
549. 550-551. 555' 556. 560, 563. 676-677, 701 

746 
677 
677 
600 
676 
676 

745 
380, 676 

737 
318, 389 

15. 123 
235 

643, 644. 647 
235, 67S 

643. 644. 651 
235 

591 
112 



146, 



General Index. 155 

Cheney, Benjamin P. ......... . 548 

Cheney, David F 14,472,511 

Cheney, Deacon Moses . . . . . . . . . 718 

Cheney, Gov. P. C 718 

Cheshire Light Guards 739 

Chisholm, Thomas M. ........ . 13 

Cilley, Quartermaster .......... 350 

Clark, Capt. Joseph, Jr 114 

Clark, Col. William T 114 

Clark, Henry W " .... 678 

Clark, John ........... 616 

Clark, Lieutenant .......... 568 

Clark, Lieut. Joseph R. ......... 153 

Clark, Rufus W 236 

Clark, William P 678 

Clement, Hermon A 125, 173, 235, 318, 389, 502-504, 679 

Clement, Simeon A. ....... . 389, 679-680 

Clogston, John D 235 

Clough, Larkin H. ......... . 84 

Clough, William F 14 

Coffin, Samuel S. .......... 677 

Colburn, Eleazer .......... 440 

Colburn, James L. ......... . 15 

Colby, Adjutant-General 11, 18,731 

Colgrove, Gen. Silas .......... 64 

Collins, Rev. S. A 123 

Cooper, John B. .......... . 13 

14, no, 113, 122, 234, 345, 348, 434, 462, 506, 533, 678, 680-681 

Cooper, Mark 681 

Cooper, Mary O. (Moody) 680 

" Cooper shop," 20, 558 

Copp, Charles D. . . . . . . . . . . 13, 82 

197, 222, 234, 253, 274, 305, 312, 317-318, 319, 347, 378-380, 381-384 
386, 389-390, 437-438. 470-472, 474. 475. 534, 549, 55o-SSi, 681-684 

Copp, Harriet E. (Woods) 683 

Corser, William H. ......... . 658 

Couch, General ........... 61, 695 

Cowen, William F. ......... . 84 

Cox, General .......... 103-104 

Crafts, Captain ........... 319 

Crawford, Lieutenant 567 

Cressey, Albert B. ......... . 15 

Cross, Colonel ........... 35 

Crowell, Martin T. 684 

Culburton, Lieut. S. S. ........ . 659 

Cummings, Orlando L. ........ . 236 

Cummings, Rev. Dr. E. E. 657 

Currier, Andrew .......... 685 



156 



General Index. 



Curtin, Governor 
Curtis, William B. 
Gushing, Nathan 
Gutler, George W. 
Cutter, Division Surgeon 

Darling, Lewis Dwight 

Davidson, Captain 

Davis, Alvah R. . 

Davis, Andrew J. 

Davis, Captain 

Davis, George A. 

Davis, Jefferson . 

Davis, Mary E. (Thompson] 

Davis, Walter E. 

Day, Charles 

Dearborn, Horace P. 

Dennis, Frank 

Densmore (Dinsmore), Edgar W 

Dexter, Francis H. 

Dimmick, Lieut. O. W, 

Dinsmore, Sanford 

Dix, General 

Dodge, George H. 

Doe, Hezekiah . 

Doherty, James . 

Donovan, John . 

Douty, Lieutenant 

Dow, Brig. Gen. Neal 

Dow, Rev, Mr, , 

Downs, Edwin W. 

Drew, George H, 

Dudley, Oliver H. 

Dufney, Joseph . 

Duncan, Charles H, 

Durell, Capt. George W, 

Duren, Lieut. John A. 

Durgin, Captain . 

Duryea, Lieutenant-Colonel 

Dutton, Newell T. 

314. 315' 320-321, 385- 
455-459. 461, 495-499' 5". 526, 527, 



97. 98. 99' 136 

313 
684-686 

14 
223, 225, 239, 646 

686 

659 

686-687, 760 

145. 235 
609 

687 

301, 544, 587 

687 

687 

314 

15 

318 

15, 234, 235, 253 

235 

578 

687-689 

266, 647 

15 
112 

112 

15.495 
485 

575 
601 

203 
15, 500, 502, 511, 599, 604 

15 

318, 381 

238, 635,. 637, 638 

114. 453 
574, 586, 588, 589, 604, 609 

319 
114 

303 

-386, 39S-399, 423-525. 427-428 
528, 529, 530, 547, 666, 689-692 



Eastman, Albert C. 
Eastman, Col. Seth 
Eastman, George S. 
Eastman, Samuel R. 
Eastman, William C, 



235 
12 

15 

14 
235 



General, Index. 



157 



. 12, 13, 14' 35. 235, 375. 565 
120-122, 236-238, 242-243, 687, 748 

14, 235 



13 
594 
461 
121 



Edgerly, Augustus S 

Edgerly, Charles W. . . 13, 14. 

Edmands, Warren H. ... 

Edminister, James N. ... 

Edwards, Lieut. D. C. 

Edwards, Mr 

Eighth Connecticut .... 

Eighth Illinois 298 

Eighteenth Connecticut 5^° 

Eighteenth New Hampshire 55^ 

Eighty-ninth New York 188 

Eldridge, Eben §4 

Eleventh Connecticut .......••• 104 

Eleventh Florida 5^9 

Eleventh New Hampshire . 166, 191, 289, 375, 445, 473, 475, 575, 576, 578 

Ellenwood, Horace "3 

Ellis, Minot 235, 318, 692-693 

Ely, Colonel 54^ 

Emerson, Edward I. .......•• • 235 

Emerson, John S '2 

Emery, George W 15. 434. 45^. 525. 528 

Eric, King of Sweden. 681 

Evans, General .......-••• o^ 

Evans, John F 3^8 

Evans, Lieut. T, E 604 

Evans, Major 353 

Everett, Ellen Frances (Lane) 694 

Everett, George W. . . .10, 12, 153, 312,316,353,693-694,738 

Everett, George W 694 

Everett, John R 694 

Ewell, General 435. 554. 555 

Fay, Lieutenant ........... 578 

Fellows, Enoch Q 7, 8, 11, 12, 17, 20, 21, 22 

35, 36, 37, 40, 43' 47. 53. 56. 58. 71. 71, 74. 75. 78, 81, 105 

106, no, 114, 122, 153, 171, 173, 201, 207, 208, 222, 367, 694-697, 743 

Fellows, John 694 



Fellows, Lucian B. 
Fellows, Mary J. 
Fellows, Stephen 
Ferguson, Lieutenant 
Ferrero, General . 
Fersons, James H, 
Fifteenth New Jersey 
Fifth New Hampshire 
Fiftieth New York 
Fiftieth Pennsylvania 
Fifty-eighth Massachusetts 



II 



4, 337. 341 



, 482 



35 



i, 46; 



484, 



3191 



318 
694 
694 
568 
488, 549 

IS 

568 

435. 604 
188 
568 
445 



i^S General Index. 

Fifty-first New York 79,105,114 

Fifty-first Pennsylvania 79, 105, 114 

Fifty-fourth New York 577 

Fifty-ninth New York 568 

Fifty-second New York 568 

Fifty-sixth Massachusetts band 558 

Fifty-third Tennessee 452 

First New Hampshire Berdan sharpshooters 575 

First New Jersey 568 

First New York dragoons 581 

First Ohio Heavy artillery 324 

First Vermont Heavy artillery 591 

First West Virginia cavalry 600 

Flanagan, Edward . . . . . . . . . . 112 

Fletcher, Almon J 113,697 

Fletcher, Samuel W 16, 248 

Flynn, Martin 460, 472, 477-480 

Ford, Henry 334, 506 

Forrest, General 578 

Fortieth Kentucky 317, 319 

Forty-eighth Pennsylvania 56 

114, 175, 199, 218, 234, 420, 422, 423, 445, 449, 481, 485, 494, 495 
Forty-fifth Pennsylvania ......... 443 

Forty-ninth Pennsylvania ......... 567 

Forty-second New York 568 

Foster, Charles E 84 

Foster, Charles E. ........ , 172, 248 

Foster, Franklin H 14, 473-474, 493, 616, 617, 701 

Foster, J. Frank 318, 626-627, 697-698 

Fourteenth New York 368 

Fourteenth New York Heavy artillery 541 

Fourth New Hampshire ......... 435 

Fourth Vermont .......... 599, 600 

Fowler, Lieutenant 568 

Fox, George D. . . . . . . . . . . 113, 129 

Franklin, General 61 

French, Hiram W 14, 243 

French, Moses D. . . . . . . . . . . 112 

Frye, General 319, 322, 323, 337, 352, 681, 704, 752 

Frye, Isaac F 502 

Funk, Captain 568 

Gage, George K. 2S0 

Gallagher, Adjt. J. H. 599 

Garland, John W 121 

Garrard, General 350 

Gay, Jerome . . . . . . . . . . . 112 

George, Carlos C 145, 227, 633 



General Index. i59 

George, Henry J 475 

George, William M '° 

Gibson, Francis N '- ^42, 472 

Gibson, George W °2° 

Gile, Thomas F., Jr 23° 

Gillespie, Lieutenant-Colonel 236 

Gilmore George H 288-291 

Gilmore, Governor 5^ 

Gilmore, Mrs y^ 

Gleason, Abel R 147,643.644,649,650 

Glidden, Charles W ^3-84 

Goodell, Gov. D. H 7o8 

Goodon, Commodore 7i8, 719 

Goodwin, Thomas ^S 

Gordon, George ^5 

Gove, George W "5, 84 

Grant, Gen. U. S 277, 287, 306, 340, 345, 357-365 

370, 371, 435, 443, 447, 448, 496, 497, 535, 54©, 542-544, 549, 606, 611 
Graves, William H. . . .57, 146, 353, 643. 644, 647, 648, 649, 651, 652 

Gray, Moses F 1 5-235 

Green, Jacob 14,113,130,172.249 

Greene, Edwin 12.263,337,511 

Grierson, Lieut. Otto 577 

Griliin, General 153,198,274 

297, 306, 341, 388, 393, 399, 421, 422, 423, 428, 434, 435, 436, 444, 471 
481, 487, 489, 495, 496, 498, 522, 526, 528, 533, 548, 550, 557, 637, 704 

Griffin, Webster ^35 

Griffith, Alexander -235 

Griswold, Major 597, 600, 604 

Gushee, Edward M " 

18, no, 144, 200, 214, 216, 218, 247, 310, 645, 698-701 

Hackett, Frank B ^4 

Hadley, Daniel G ^35 

Hale, Senator John P 56o 

Hall, Charles A ^35 

Hall, Charles F "^ 

Hall, Col. Daniel " 

Hall, George W < /"^ 

Hall, Harvey M ^49, 651 

Hall, Stacy W ^5- 3^8, 547 

Halleck, Major-General " 

47, 48, 97, 98, 102, 132, 135, 160, 163, iSi, 182 

Halliday, Joseph C '42, i43 

Ham, Sylvester ,■ J^ 

Hamblett, Hezekiah P 146, 643. 644, 647 

Hamblett, Judson A '46, 643. 644, 647 

Hanson, Howard M 12, 54, 312 



i6o General Index. 

Haradon, Willard N 13 

Harlow, Isaac Leonard 495, 499, 512 

Harnden, Charles A 13, 235 

Harper's Ferry , 67, 68, 1 53 

Harriman, Gen. Walter 153, 575, 576 

Harrington, Jeremiah 235 

Harrison, President 708, 754 

Hartranft, General 114,489,542 

Hartwell, William H. 113,229,495,608,615,701 

Haselton, Enoch E 84, 85 

Hastings, George E 84 

Hatch, Assistant Commissioner ........ 607 

Hayes, President 681, 749 

Heath, Webster 14 

Hecknian, Brigadier-General 576 

Hedges, Lieut. Samuel N 574 

Henderson, Lieutenant ......... 602 

Herbert, Lieutenant 568 

Herrick, Mrs. H. A 666 

Hester, Michael 113,235 

Hickenbottom, Lieutenant-Colonel 567 

Hill, Gen. D. H 61, 86 

Hobson, J, E 649, 651 

Hodgman, George .......... 14 

Hood, General ........... 584 

Hooker, General 47, 61, 192, 255, 752 

Home, Adrian L. 703 

Home, A. Paul 235, 478, 619-626, 702-703 

Home, Frances B. (Ricker) 702 

Home, Lester Porter 703 

Home, Noah ........... 702 

Home, Theresa A. (Bellows) 702 

Hough, Andrew J. ....... 13, 222, 421, 423-427 

434, 435. 436. 439. 469, 474. 475. 494. 496, 5oi> Sio- 5"> 563, 703-705 

Hough, Mary E. (Roberts) 703 

Howard, John H. ......... . 235 

Howard, Levi ........... 706 

Howard, William H 113 

Howe, Daniel W 16 

Howe, Francis ........... 235 

Howe, John 15 

Howe, Stephen H 146, 643, 644, 649, 650, 651 

Hoyt, William H. , 14 

Hubbard, George E 113 

Hubbard, Henry E 16, 130, 475 

Hull, Lieutenant .......... 606 

Humphrey, John H 126 

Humphrey, Willard W 126 



General Index. i6i 

Hunt, P 318 

Huntoon, Eli A. 16 

Huntoon, Phineas R 3'^ 

Hurd, Albert G 7°? 

Hurd, Arno E 707 

Hurd, D. Emerson 706-707 

Hurd, Ruth M. (Bruce) 707 

Hurlbutt, Charles 85,214,707-708,744 

Hurlbutt, Elihu 707 

Hurlbutt, Emeline L. (Goodell) 707 

Hurlbutt, Luther C 84 

Hussey, Charles B iS 

Hutchins, Assistant Surgeon IS3 

Hutchins, Carleton B 12, 42,153,208 

Hutchinson, Asa T 13, 222, 226, 495, 533, 434. 549 

Hutchinson, Oliver 235 

Hutchinson, Prentiss C * . .16, 643, 644, 651 

Ingalls, Quartermaster 439 

Jackson, " Stonewall " 3I' 61,172,369,675 

Jacques, Seino 43^ 

James, Benjamin D 235 

Johnson, A. M 650, 651 

Johnston, General 3°3 

"Jokum" 126-128 

Jolley, Joseph .......■•■• 113 

Jones, Lieutenant .......... 605 

Judkins, Charles M 83 

Judkins, Joel S 83, 84, 85 

Kean, Dennis 236 

Kelley, Jerome I4> 470i 547 

Kelsey, Edward C '6 

Kemp, William A 248 

Kempton, George B 636 

Kendall, Horace G "3 

Kendall, Lieutenant 568 

Kent, Colonel 658 

Keyser, Scott W M 

Kidder, Roscoe B 385. 500 

Kimball, James B 708-709 

Kingsbury, Colonel I04 

Kingsley (Kingsbury), James M. 3°9 

Knight, Charles H 16, 318 

Knight, Hollis 3^3 

Krommeyer, Captain ......•••• 508 

Lane, Mattie 3^5 



i62 General Index. 

Lane, Samuel F 236 

Lane, Stella 3^5 

Lathe, Aaron 709 

Lathe, Ernest W 7" 

Lathe, Esther (Fordyce) 709 

Lathe, Freeman 433. 465. 508. 509. 709 

Lathe, Hattie 7" 

Lathe, Hiram S 15, 83, 84, 709 

Lathe, J. Arthur 711 

Lathe, James W. . 15, 41, 83,355,429-434,464-469,505-510,709-711 

Lathe, Laura (Morse) 711 

Leavitt, Oilman 16, 114 

Ledlie, General 483, 484, 487 

Lee, General . . 11, 28, 61, 63, 64, 65. 66, 68, 95-101,136,156 

157, 158, 165, 183, 186, 356, 443, 447, 449- 540, 543. 544. 546, 606, 652 

Leighton, Byron D 318, 439, 440 

Lemar (Lamare), Joseph * 335 

Leverett, Frank J 8-10 

Lewis, John G. . . . -13' 196. 226, 234, 235, 243, 6S7, 688 

Lincoln, President 2 

4, 7, 66, 98, 99,148,149,150,152,153,154,159,160 

161, 162, 194, 272, 342, 357, 536, 537, 546, 596, 605, 610, 652, 685, 738 

Little, Albert 235 

Little, Charles H 16,114 

Little, Hazen Jesse . . . . . . . . . . 712 

Little, Joseph 711 

Little, Ludo B. . . . 14,226,235,427,434,454,471,475,711-712 

Little, Mary (Cobleigh) 711 

Little, Mary E. (Shurtleff) 712 

Little, Rev, Dr 677 

Longstreet, General 61, 103, 156, 192. 361 

Lothrop (Lathrop), Edward D 15 

Lovejoy, Frank ........... 235 

Lovejoy, George H 147, 643, 644, 651 

Loving (Loring), George M. ....... . 236 

Lucas, Capt. W. D. ......... . 604 

Manley, Capt. J. A 567, 574, 595, 59S 

Manning, William 147, 643, 644, 647 

Mansfield, General .......... 61 

Marble, Eben M. ........ 147, 643, 644 

Marsh, I'dward K 15 

Marshall, Frank V 147, 643, 644, 651 

Marshall, Nathaniel W 146, 643, 644, 651 

Marston, Colonel .......... 752 

Martin, Harvey C. ......... . 235 

Marvin, Charles B 113, 123 

Mason, John E. . . . 13,134,156,312,384-385,494,644,645,713 



General Index. 163 

Matthews, Carrie L. (Thomas) . . 714 

Matthews, Frank R 714 

Matthews, James H 7 13-71 5 

Matthews, John H 713 

Mayo, Lysander R 84, 314, 221, 400-402 

McCall, O. M 594 

McCarthy, John 1 718 

McClary, William W. 236 

McClellan, General 3^> 2>7 

41, 48, 61, 64, 65, 67, 68, 93, 65, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 102 
109, 132, 134, 135, 140, 147, 148, 150, 154, 155, 158-165, 536, 695, 699 

McClure, George W 16,113,318 

McCutcheon, Lieut. Edward T 574, 605 

McDermott, John 112 

McGarrett, William 235, 426, 427, 614-618, 716 

McGinnis, Lieut. W. A 587 

McKusick, Asa. A. ......... . 616 

McLaws, General .......... 243 

McLeod, Mrs. Dr 664 

Meade, General 340, 358, 450, 482-489, 548, 549 

Meader, Samuel ........... 114 

Menard, Peter ........... 235 

Merrill, Albert G 13 

Merrill, John Mooney 71S 

Merrill, Joseph G 235 

Merrill, Rufus M. (see Mooney, John.) 

Messenger, Edward M 113, 119, 120 

Meyers, Lieutenant .......... 56S 

Miles, General ........... 67 

Miller, Edwin R. 16, 235, 716-717 

Miller, Nancy (Paul) ,716 

Miller, Nathaniel, Jr 716 

Miller, Sarah J. (Vose) 717 

Mitchell, B. W 64 

Mitchell, General ' 718 

Mobley, Captain 584 

Mooney, John 14,717-719 

Moore, James H 643,644,651 

Moreland, Benaiah 146, 643, 644, 649 

Morrill, Joseph G 14 

Morrrison, Mr 548 

Morse, Francis ......... 643, 644, 646 

Morse, Frederick . . . . . . . . . • I5> 616 

Morse, Mrs. 515 

Morton, George W 719-720 

Moses, Frances Ellen (Blake) 722 

Moses, Mary S 720 

Moses, Theodore B 720 



164 



General Index. 



Moses, William 1'. 



13. 123-124, 153, 170-171, 259, 278-2S0, 309 



322, 323. 335. 337, 346-348. 349. 350-351. 352-353. 550. 572, 720-722 

Moulton, Andrew J 500, 501 

Moulton, Dr. A. J. 
Mudgett, John F. 
Murray, Capt. S. F. . 
Muzzey, George . 
Myers, Louis 



Nagle, General 

114, 122, 160, 19S, 
Neller, John D. , 
Newcomb, Oliver P. . 
Nichols, Joshua . 
Nineteenth Kentucky . 
Nineteenth Massachusetts 
Ninth Corps 

361-365, 403-40S, 
Ninth New York 
Norris, Cyrus B. 
Noyes, Deacon Milton 
Noyes, Charles M. 



216, 



444- 



44. 56. Sr, 

33' 247. 272, 274, 644, 645, 648, 699, 723- 



188,567, 

60, 106, 132, 165, 212, 256, 288, 336, 
50, 473, 4S2-490, 519, 535, 541, 542, 546, 

106, 118, 
. It;, 



O'Connor, Timothy .... 
One Hundred Eighty-third Pennsylvania 
One Hundred Fifty-fourth New York 
One Hundred Forty-fifth Pennsylvania 
One Hundred Third Pennsylvania 
One Hundred Twelfth New York 
One Hundred Twenty-second New York 
O'Keilley, Francis 
Osgood, Napoleon B. . 



Page, Horace 
Page, Horace B. 
Page, Samuel 
Paige, Enoch C. 
Paris, Comte de . 
Parker, Betsey (Underhill) 
Parke, Major-General . 
Parker, Lieut. E. B. . 
Parkers, Mr. 
Parsons, Edward S. 
Partridge, Henry F. . 
Patmorn (Putnam), Asahel 
Patterson, Captain 
Paul, Captain 
Paul, Moses N. . 



38' 



257 



0, 384 



, 306, 



,386, 



341 



455 



15. 113. 



542, 548, 
590, 



495, 496, 
476. 



746 
14 

575, 59S 

1 12 

14 

109 

729 
616 

13 

84 

587 

340 

652 

128 

547 
123 
123 

15 
567 
574 
567 
594 
574 
568 

113 
15 

15 
236 
112 
729 

159 
745 
557 
591 
548 
511 
477 
236 

45 

571 

84 



568, 



General Index. 165 

Peabody, Mrs. George M, (Everett) 694 

Peabody, Warren A 146, 643, 644 

Pearl, Capt. Ichabod 658 

Pearson, Lieutenant-Colonel ........ 434 

Pearsons, Samuel D. ........ . 434, 616 

Peaslee, George R 113 

Peaslee, John A. .......... 113 

Perham, Rodney .......... 15 

Perry, James B. . . . . . . . . . . . 12 

Perry, S. Horace . . 16, 208, 256, 258, 420, 434, 472, 475, 480, 481 

Perry, William H 114, 132 

Pettengill, Wyman 14, 236 

Pettingill, Benjamin F. ......... 235 

Phelps, Peter F. 14 

Phillips, Joseph 730 

Phillips, Judson 730 

Phillips, Minot R 250, 730 

Phillips, Rufus 730 

Phillips, Simeon 730 

Pierce, President .......... 301 

Pierce, Simeon ........... 14 

Pillsbury, Leonard H 12, 13, 14, 83, 85,720,730-732 

Pillsbury, William S 13, 720 

Pleasants, Lieutenant-Colonel 449, 450, 484, 494 

Plummer, Jonathan P. 400 

Pollard, Historian 544. 545 

Pope, General 37 

Porter, Gen. Fitz-John 61 

Potter, Chaplain 533 

Potter, General . . . 114 

256, 341, 393, 421, 422, 446, 448, 450, 484, 487, 488, 548, 650, 652, 702 

Potter, Phendeus H 235, 242 

Pratt, Maj. J. E 600 

Prendable, James B 254,379,385,511 

Prisoners captured May 12, 1864, Lieutenant Wilcox's 

original list of 612-613 

Provencher, Joseph E. 400, 437 

Pulsifer, N. Warren 1 5' 151. 307, 313- ^33 

Purington, Elijah P 112 

Putnam, Gen. Israel 681 

Quimby, Aaron 694 

Quimby, H. Baxter . . 15,113,472,478,480,526,547,649,732-733 

Quimby, James ........... 113 

Quimby, Moses A 732 

Quinn, Joseph ........... 616 

Ramsey, Lyman M 84 

5 



i66 



General Index. 



43. 



44. 



48, 



56, 6 



I, 69, 74 



76 



Rand, Francis W. 

Rand, William H 8-10, 16, 

Randlett, Charles J. 

Rantone, Hon. R. S, 

Rawlins, Colonel 

Raymond, Hercules W 

Reason, Willis 

Reese, Sergeant . 

Reno, General 

Rice, Lieutenant-Colonel 

Rice, William D. 

Richards, Albion K. 

Richards, Thomas J, 

Richardson, Albert 

Richardson, Byron 

Richardson, George W 

Rijey, Francis O. 

Ritter, Frank S. . 

Roberts, Alonzo . 

Roberts, Cyrus M. 

Roberts, John W. 

Roberts, Mary 

Roberts, Millet W, 

Rol)inson, David 

Robinson, Everett 

Robinson, Jennie M. (Rawe 

Robinson, John . 

Robinson, John W. 

Robinson, Mary . 

Robinson, Oscar D. 

117, 128, 142, 143, 145, 151, 171, 176, 177, 179, 180, 241, 
391, 396, 400, 436-437. 495. 517. 528, 532, 534, 537, 547, 

Robinson, William S. D. . 

Robinson, Zelpha (Clement) ....... 

Rolfe, Horace H. ........ . 

Rouzie, Dr. A. R. ........ . 

Rowe, Lieutenant .......... 

Rowell, Joseph S. ......... . 

Royce, William H 

Rugg, John H 

Runnals, John R. .......... 

Russell, George W ir 

Russell, William 



1) 



236 



51 

235 

342-344 

607 
16 

113 

485 

82, 134, 69s 

567 

IS. 525 

457. 473 
14, 112 

617 

547 

14 

15 
415-420 

703 

14 

15 

703 

1 12 

733 

735 

14. 235 

15 

735 

15. 115- 

307, 325-327 

673. 733-735 

733 

7-, -, 



15 

600, 606 

568 

235 

"3 
"3 
547 
123 
464 



Saladal, Leon 
Sampson, John C. 
Sanborn, Abraham 
Sanborn, Andrew J. 



437 

'5. 335. 434. 463. 492, 494, 507, 51 " 

14 

15 



General Index. 167 

Sanborn, Carroll .......... 236 

Sargent, Henry 15. 6S9. 735' 73^ 

Sargent, Lyman ........... 422 

Sargent, Sophia T. (Heath) ........ 735 

Sawyer, Nelson N. ......... , 14 

Saxton, Mr. 648 

Scanneron, Brig. Gen. O. P 575, 576 

Scofield, General ........... 323 

Scott, J 235 

Scoville, Maj. Henry W. ........ 333, 610 

Scripture, Gilman .......... 548 

Second Maryland ... 56, 105, 114, 175, 198, 247, 445, 481, 594 

Second New Hampshire ........ 10, 219, 435 

Second New York ......... 416, 445 

Second New Hampshire United States Sharpshooters . . . 598 

Second Vermont United States Sharpshooters 598 

Seventeenth Michigan 85, 567 

Seventeenth Vermont 445, 481, 499, 534, 650 

Seventh Maine battery ........ 430, 538 

Seventh Michigan 188 

Seventh New Hampshire 474> 607 

Seventh Rhode Island .... 175, 198, 199, 308, 323, 445, 481 

Seventy-seventh New York ........ 568 

Seymour, Brigadier-General ........ 576 

Shaffer, Mrs. Oscar 664 

Shaler, Brigadier-General ......... 576 

Shay (Shea), Jeremiah ......... 318 

Shedd, Colonel 600 

Shedd, John G MS 

Shepard, A. Warren 12, 475 

Sheppard, E. O 236 

Sheridan, General 522, 530, 542, 543, 652 

Sherman, General 540, 582-585, 602, 603, 695 

Sigfried, Lieutenant-Colonel ii4> '99 

Simes, Dr. T. M 746 

Simonds, Lewis ..;.... 120, 147, 643, 644, 651, 737 
Simonds, Wesley .......... 125 

Simons, Charles J 14. 496, 497, 547- 73^ 

Simpson, Henry H. ......... . 84 

Sixth New Hampshire . 56, 92, 105, 109, iii, 114, 117, iiS, 175, 191, 198 

199, 274, 308, 319, 322, 417, 424, 434, 445, 481, 557, 558, 617, 647, 650 

Sixty-fifth New York 567 

Sixty-fourth New York 567, 574 

Sixty-sixth New York 597 

Skillings, W. L 236 

Sleeper, Charles F. . . 475, 476 

Slyfield, James ........... 318 

Small, Orrin A M, 84 



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General Index. 



Smith, Baxter P. 
Smith, General . 
Smith, Hon. Alvah 
Smith, Luther 
Smith, Mehitable (Ward) 
Smith, Moses 
Smith, Orville 
Smith, Perley A. 
Smyth, Governor 
Spalding, Mr. 
Spaulding, Sylvester 
Spencer, Thomas 
Sprague, S. Henry 
Staples, Mark G. 
Stearns, Albert B. 
Stearns, George . 
Stebbins, Lieutenant 
Stephens, A. C. . 
Stevens, Charles C. 
Stevens, Charles S. 
Stevens, Chester C. 
Stevens, Colonel 
Stevens, George 
Stevens, Josiah, Jr. 
St. Francis, Edward 
Stewart, J. S. 
Stewart, Jonathan P. 
Stivers, Mr. 
Stoddard, Almond A 
Stone, A. J, 13, 14, 125, 
Stoneman, General 
Stoughton, Col. H. R. 
Strait, Colonel 
Streeter, E. H. . 
Steeeter, Herbert N 
Sturgis, General . 

134. 13S' 170, 176, 
Sturtevant, Major 
Sullivan, Michael 
Sumner, General 
Sumter, Fort 
Surratt, Mrs. 
Swain, R. W. 
Sweat, Thomas J 
Swift, Colonel 
Swift, G. H. 
Sylvester, George P. 
Symester, Stephen G 



180, 



253, 263, 269, 373, 375, 376, 388 



13, 222 



334 



147 



,389 



266, 



366, 374, 
558. 559, 



313^ 
IS 

529: 



12, 13, 

223, 

• 7, 

643- 644, 



421,464, 

582, 



S3, 



48, 56, 80, 81, 86, 91, 114, 
90, 191, 220, 228, 256, 578, 644, 647, 648, 



61, 19 



194 



215 



246, 



646, 



650, 
15. 



737 
647 

738 
3>8 
737 
737 
738 
760 
560 
548 

16 
420 
756 
113 
547 

16 
568 
236 

IS 
174 

14 
646 
649 

10 

649 

304 

15 
648 

113 

563 
587 
598 

578 

113 
84 

I 22 

713 
35 

"3 
717 
2 
610 
112 
638 
567 

651 
564 

119 



General Index. 



169 



Symonds, Charles W. 

Tabb, Capt. W. A. (Confederate) 
Tappan, Monroe 
Taft, Albert H. . 
Taft, DeForest R. 
Taft, Edward N. 
Taft, M. (Atherton) . 
Tarbell, Myal 
Tennant, Matthew P. . 
Tenth New Hampshire 
Terry, Lieutenant 
Third New Hampshire 
Thirteenth Illinois 
Thirteenth New Hampshire 
Thirteenth Massachusetts 
Thirty-first Maine 
Thirty-fifth Massachusetts 
Thirty-ninth New York 
Thirty-ninth Virginia . 
Thirty-second Georgia 
Thirty-second Maine . . 367, 
Thirty-Sixth Massachusetts 
Thomas, Adjutant-General 
Thompson, Charles H 

Thompson, John 
Thompson, William 

Thorpe, Colonel . 

Thurston, Charles 

Thurston, Eugene 

Thurston, Frank, 

Tebbetts, Stephen 

Tilford, Lieutenant 

Tilton, Charles W. 

Titus, Col. Ezra . 

Titus, Dea. Joseph 

Titus, Electa (Kneeland) 

Titus, Herbert B. 

75, 77, 81, no, 116, 122, 
296, 297, 305, 313, 316, 317, 
352, 353. 355- 427. 536. 538, 

Titus, Robert .... 

Tompkins, Henry 

Towns, Charles .... 

Tracy, George B. . . 15^ 

Tracy, Henry M. . . . 

Triggs, Benjamin 
Twelfth New Hampshire . 



439. 440 

574, 580, 581, 582 

14 

5, 113, 145, 629, 637, 638, 738-740 

740 

738 
740 

84 
112 

166, 435 
322 

7. 474 
600 

223, 435. 548, 646 
610 

445. 495. 534 
48, 79, 81, 82, 85, 91, 114. 289 

568 

567 

584 

368, 375. 445. 495. 508, 533. 538, 548, 563 

445' 647 
752 
112 

"3 
616 

581, 582 
617 

15 

519. 520 

235 

568 

13 

741. 742 

741 

742 

10, 12, 38, 44, 49. 74 

208, 218, 222, 233, 263, 266, 269, 272, 275 

318, 327, 328, 334, 337. 342, 347, 348, 350 

547-549. 559. 560, 563, 710, 740-743. 752 

741 

16 

; .' 84 

145, 227, 230, 397, 398, 633, 63s, 743-745 

15 

390 

228, 319 



lyo General Index. 

Twelfth Rhode Island 198 

Twentieth Massachusetts 188 

Twenty-first Massachusetts 79,114 

Twenty-seventh Indiana ......... 64 

Twombly, Joseph B 15.235 

Tubbs, Dr 548 

Tucker, Austin H 14, 478 

Turbayne, Lieutenant 597 

Underhill, Charles F. 746 

Underbill, Charles W. 745-746 

Underhill, Ellen F 746 

Underhill, George F. . . . , . . . . , . . 746 

Underhill, Moses 745 

Underhill, Rachel (Lufkin) 745 

Underhill, Susan (Kimball) 746 

Underhill, Susan M 746 

Underhill, Thomas B. ......... 746 

Underhill, William P 746 

Upham, Lorenzo M. . . . . . . . . . 15, 119 

Vanderkeift, Dr. 610 

Wadleigh, Joseph B. . . . . . . . . . 112, 349 

Wakefield, George L. . . 78, 421, 425, 475, 477, 499, 501, 746-747 

Walker, H. W 650 

Wallace, Charles .......... 119 

Walpole, Captain .......... 568 

Ward, George S. .......... 747 

Ward, Mary J 747 

Ward, Joel ........... 747 

Warren, General 519, 542 

Warren, Osmon B. ........ . 748-749 

Warren, Rev. James 748 

Warren, Sylvester B 84 

Watts, C. H 235 

Way, William E. 15 

Wayne, Colonel 584, 591 

Webber, C. C 652 

Webster, Albert R 757 

Webster, Anna (Wood) 750 

Webster, Benjamin P. 750 

Webster, Edwin II 15 

Webster, John P. 750-75I 

Webster, William A. . . . 12, 13, 14, 85, no, 119. 351, 475. 749-75° 

Webster, William G 749 

Webster, Susan F 749 

Welch, John G 616 

Wentworth, C. H. ......... . 235 

Wentworth, James 172 



General Index. 



171 



Wentworth, Reuben . 
Wesseles, Brigadier-General 
Wheeler, Albert R. 
Wheeler, Charles W 
Whitcomb, M. H. 
Whitcomb, Nathan 
Whitfield, Florence (Morrison) 
Whitfield, Smith A. 
Whitman, William 
Whittlesey, Maj. J. H 
Whipple, Camp . 
Whipple, General 
Whipple, John P. 
Wild, Colonel . 
Wier, N. W. 
Wilcox, Ann (Clark) 
Wilcox, Clark H. 
Wilcox, Charles W. 

327- 348, 349. 351. 354. 
Wilcox, Elon 
Wilcox, Electa (Brown) 
Wilcox, Erastus . 
Wilcox, Stephen P. 
Wiley, Edgar F. 
Wilkins, J. F. 
Wilkins, Leander A 
Wilcox, General . 
Williams, J. W. . 
Williams, Mr. 
Wilson, Braman I. 
Wilson, Mayor . 
Winder, General 
Winship, D. R. . 
Winslow, Governor 
Wirtz, Captain . 
Wood, Charles A. 
Wood, Colonel . 
Wood, Marshall P. 
Woods, Joseph G. 
Wright, Emma J. (Davis) 
Wright, G. W. . 
Wright, William H. 
Wyman J. R. 
Wymer, A. A. 

Young, AlvinA. 

Zimmerman, George A 
Zouaves, Hawkins 



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248, 250, 318, 385 

235 
652 

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671 
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114 

235 
759 
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113 

660 
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687 

235 
687 

147, 643, 644, 649, 650 

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760-761 

678 
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